A royal invite

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We are headed towards the wedding season and The Fort Ramgarh (ahead of its jam-packed season of weddings) comes up with The Heritage Fair where there is food, music and dance— three things omnipresent in every community in India. 

Converted into a heritage hotel in 2003, The Fort Ramgarh is 350-year-old legacy of the royal family of Chandel Rajputs which is a branch of the family of Raja of Bilaspur.   

Taking pride in their ancestry that goes back to the period of Ramayana and Mahabharta, this was the first heritage hotel in Punjab and Haryana region that sticks to vegetarian food and barred alcohol in the premises. Prince of Ramgarh, Ashutosh Chandel is managing the hotel.  An alumnus of St. John’s High School and Lawrence School Sanawar, he says, “As far as the latter is concerned, it made me independent, a much needed trait in life.”  The toughest part for Ashutosh, he says, “was to establish a vegetarian hotel in a place where people love to eat non-vegetarian.  A fashion show, an auto exhibition with all the popular designs, vintage and super cars (from Chandigarh), a puppet show and various other performances dot the fair.