Category: India
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Monsoon skies
Monsoon skies Towards the end of the monsoon, when the rainwater tanks are filled up again to the brim, the clouds suddenly disperse and the sky opens up. I love the monsoon in the mountains, and not just the end of it. Photo of the week: View at Binsar, Kasardevi-Almora, Uttarakhand, India 2019
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A shroud of secrecy
A shroud of secrecy The monsoon haze almost blocks the view of the undulating hills in front of us, laying a shroud of secrecy over the landscape. Our beautiful, precious Earth. Photo of the week: Monsoon haze, view from Kasardevi, Almora, India 2021
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Hi Gautama
Hi Gautama Churches, temples, mosques … they are not just places of worship where the devotees come together to pray to their god(s). Nowadays they are also favourite environments for group photos and selfies. And for chatting of course, since that goes on day and night irrespective of where one finds oneself. Who knows the…
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Heavenly nymphs
Heavenly nymphs Liked by hindous and buddhists alike in their temple decorations, the dancing apsaras fulfil the ideal of feminine beauty:round-breasted wasp-waistedbroad-hipped Photo of the week: Namdroling Monastery, Madikeri, Karnataka, India 2019
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WC-Monitor
WC-Monitor Once, one fine morning in our house in Orchha, I went to the toilet. To my surprise I found it occupied by an unexpected visitor who clearly wasn’t used to our western toilet habits. Not knowing if he (or she) was kindhearted or dangerous I kept my distance and patiently waited for my turn.…
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Jaunty stride
Jaunty stride They love rummaging around our garden at the crack of dawn, at times even some five or six of them. They are doing well in the forests, the bushes, (and our garden), the Kalij pheasants, that is,as long as they manage to escape the jaws of the pine marten, the fox and the…
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Fellow villagers
Fellow villagers Two Kumaoni women attending the wedding of a girl in the village. Lives lived in the lap of nature and culture in the foothills of the Himalaya. Photo of the week: Wedding guests, Maat village, Almora, Kumaon, Uttarakhand India 2020
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Folding child
Folding child Neatly folded up,mouth above the plate.Nothing spilled. Photo of the week: Mayoli Organic farm, Mayoli, Uttarakhand, India 2021
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Surya
Surya A stream of men, women and childrenmeanders between the Surya temple shrines.A thousand years, day after day, ever different,always the same, as the sun that comes and goes.Aeons … a millennium … today. Photo of the week: Surya (Sun) temple, 9th cent. AD, Katarmal, Uttarakhand, India 2021
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Uttarayani Fair
Uttarayani Fair When Surya (Sun) enters the Capricorn zodiac (14 January) it’s time for the festival of Makar Sankranti, in Uttarakhand also known as Uttarayan. That’s the time when the town of Bageshwar, at the confluence of the Saryu and Gomati Rivers, really comes to life. The biggest mela (fair) of the year in the…
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