Category: India
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Looking back
Looking back 31st December, it has been quite a year. Wishing you a happy new year ahead. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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Blood of Jesus
Blood of Jesus We still have to commemorate his birth, tomorrow. So let’s first rejoice before we deplore his untimely death. What delights me most in this picture is the tip of the woman’s skirt blowing in the evening breeze. Photo of the week: Blood of Jesus, Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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Worshiping mess
Worshiping mess Colours, spices, milk, coconuts, flowers, sweets and what not are used as offerings to the multitude of Hindu gods. In many temples and shrines one can see that devotees like making a mess of it. A holy mess. With a little paint and a bit of good will a stone can be transformed…
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So cute
So cute A happy bridal couple but the bridesmaids steal the show. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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In your mother’s footsteps
In your mother’s footsteps Trying out your mother’s footwear; who hasn’t done that when still a child? Photo of the week: Ganj, Orchha, India 2017
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Flatland
Flatland Thinking of Edwin A. Abbott’s “FLATLAND, A Romance of Many Dimensions”, in which he elaborates on lineland, flatland and spaceland, here we are on a flatland in space. The actors for a romance in three dimensions are already there. Photo of the week: Table land, Panchgani, India 2018
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Water earth sky
Water earth sky A stretch of earth between lake and sky.The ethereal landscape of a high lying table land. Photo of the week: Table land, Panchgani, India 2018
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Apparition of Mahadeva between the grass
Apparition of Mahadeva between the grass As if he is coming to the surface from the depths of the Earth. We recognize him as a copy of the magnificent sculpture in the Elephanta cave near Mumbai. Mahadeva the primordial god, embodying Shiva and Parvati, male and female.The original sculpture figures in my film “In the…
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VT
VT In 1995 Bombay became Mumbai. One year later VT, Victoria Terminus, became CST, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, and in 2017 the M of Maharaj was added, CSMT, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. All to erase the names dating from colonial times from our memory lane.This old photograph has tried to fall in line and erase the…
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Rhythmic enclosure
Rhythmic enclosure After six years and the hard work of 22000 labourers the Bara Imambara in Lucknow reached its completion in 1784. When visiting the monument don’t miss climbing up to the grand rooftop! Photo of the week: On the roof of Bara Imambara, Lucknow, India 2017
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