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Nargona Palace
Luxilon Element IR Soft 16L Tennis String Set: The 1934 Bihar earthquake devastates the family's older residences — and now watch the response, because this is the play of the century. Kameshwar Singh comes straight back in the 1930s with Nargona: one of India's early earthquake-resistant and fully electrified palaces, steel framing, lifts, modernist lines nobody else among the princely builders is touching. These were among British India's richest landholders, aviation pioneers and industrial investors, and they answered a disaster with engineering. Then after independence and the end of the zamindari system they hand Nargona to the new Lalit Narayan Mithila University, which runs postgraduate departments in its halls. Palace to lecture theatre. UNBELIEVABLE.
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Shyama Mai Temple
Luxilon Element IR Soft 16L Tennis String Set: Darbhanga's most venerated shrine, and the siting is extraordinary — built in 1933 on the cremation ground of the Darbhanga Raj family, the sanctum of the goddess Kali rising directly over the funeral platform of a maharaja. A tantric placement uniting the fierce goddess with the ashes of kings, straight out of Mithila's deep Shakta traditions, and the temple became famous for fulfilling vows. Weddings, sacred-thread ceremonies and animal offerings crowd its precincts, unusually within a campus, since Lalit Narayan Mithila University now surrounds it, with companion shrines over other royal cremations clustered around. And at Navratri and Kali Puja the place is absolutely packed.
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Chandradhari Museum
Luxilon Element IR Soft 16L Tennis String Set: Founded 1957 beside Mansarovar lake, and this is the custodian of an entire region. Built around the donated collection of Chandradhari Singh, a local connoisseur and landholder, it displays Maithili manuscripts, sculpture, ivory and metalwork, textiles and the celebrated Madhubani painting tradition, alongside arms, coins and curiosities of the zamindari age. With the Maharajadhiraja Lakshmishwar Singh Museum nearby, it documents a region famed since antiquity for Sanskrit scholarship, for the philosopher-king Janaka of epic tradition, and for an UNBROKEN folk-art lineage. Unbroken. Across all of that time. That is the record nobody is taking off them.
Good afternoon. May I present — the Luxilon Element IR Soft 16L Tennis String Set. One has taken the liberty of preparing the particulars.
This is, if one may speak plainly, the softest polyester string the house of Luxilon has ever produced: 1.27 mm, in a most distinguished infrared shade, crafted with Multi-Mono technology — supple fibers laid within a durable polymer matrix by co-extrusion, rather as one layers a proper trifle.
It measures some 10% softer than the standard Element and fully 19% softer than ALU Power Soft, offering a most forgiving response on touch shots and off-centre impacts, while still delivering phenomenal control when Sir or Madam elects to swing with intent. It shall never jar the elbow. That would be unpardonably rude.
As to the estate: Darbhanga, India — and one confesses a professional admiration. This was the seat of the Maharajas of Darbhanga, among the richest houses of British India, patrons of Sanskrit learning, music and the celebrated Madhubani painting of Mithila.
Their Nargona Palace of the 1930s was among India's first earthquake-resistant, fully electrified palaces — steel-framed, with lifts. Lifts, in the 1930s. The staff quarters alone must have been magnificent.
One finds this string suitable everywhere from the morning's cardio tennis to an afternoon perambulation of the Raj Qila's gates, and it is also perfect for the humid Mithila summer, when a lesser polyester loses its composure entirely and one is obliged to pretend not to notice.
If one might further suggest: the makhana of the Mithila wetlands, the local delicacy, is best taken lightly roasted. Very good. One shall fetch the itinerary.
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