Antilia (building) Antilia (building) Antilia (first named Antilla) is a private home in South Mumbai, India. It is owned by Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries and has a staff of 600 to maintain the residence 24 hours a day. , it is deemed to be the world's most expensive residential property, after Buckingham Palace, which is designated as a British crown property. Antilia is thus the world's most expensive private residence, valued over $2 billion. Its controversial design and ostentatious use by a single family has made it infamous in India and beyond, including severe criticism in the architectural press and
The Arctic Home in the Vedas The Arctic Home in the Vedas The Arctic Home in the Vedas is a book on the origin of Aryanic People by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a mathematician turned astronomer, historian, journalist, philosopher and political leader of India. It propounded the idea that the North Pole was the original home of Aryans during the pre-glacial period which they had to leave due to the ice deluge around 8000 B.C. and had to migrate to the Northern parts of Europe and Asia in search of lands for new settlements. In support to his theory, Tilak presented certain Vedic hymns, Avestic passages, Vedic