Category: India
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Serenity
Serenity A houseboat passing on the backwaters in front. Reflected rays of the sun lighting up the wood carving on the door. Life can be good in God’s own country. Photo of the week: House at the backwaters, Alapuzha, Kerala, India 2018
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Flexi poster crib
Flexi poster crib Flying angels between the trees, Mary with child, Joseph, ox, donkey and sheep, the kings with their presents, all nicely lit up from behind by the sun. For a peaceful and happy Christmas. Photo of the week: Panchgani, Maharashtra, India 2018
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Savitri’s shop
Savitri’s shop Eggs, beedis, chewing stuff and some other items, that’s what she is trying to sell in her roadside shop. But her priceless smile is for free. Photo of the week: Savitri’s shop, Ganj, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India 2007
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The abandoned dog
The abandoned dog Whenever I look at this picture that I took 24 years ago, I think: ‘De hond in het lege huis’. (The dog in the empty house). And then memories follow that take me back half a century, when I was a student at the Film Academy in Amsterdam. Its director, Anton Koolhaas,…
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Trees
Trees Sometimes I don’t get tired of looking at a remarkable tree. Take this one, silvery grey and without leaves. Its bifurcations go in all directions, apparently without plan. Unbridled growth into an ingenious labyrinth in which you soon lose your way. Photo of the week: Tiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India 2018
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Beauty on duty
Beauty on duty If the image of last week’s post was typically Indian, what about this one? It is very different but somehow – to me – equally typical. The combination of different elements – objects, texts, small details – is inimitable. When I passed by I thought: Yes! India! Great! Why does it please…
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Under the Banyan tree
Under the Banyan tree A Banyan tree, flower garlands hanging on its trunk, pictures of Hindu gods with little offerings in front, a food vendor preparing snacks in his stall … A sight so typically Indian, it couldn’t be anywhere else. Why does it make me feel good? Photo of the week: New Delhi, India…
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Our view
Our view From our house on the mountain slope we see other green hills with distant houses and villages here and there. Further north are the high Himalayas of which we can see the part with the Trishul (7120 m) and the Nanda Devi (7816 m). This photo was taken in May last year on…
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Our house
Our house So there it is, our house in Kumaon, that I mentioned in last week’s post. You’ll need good eyes to find it though. It’s on the slope of the second hill, surrounded by trees. The photo below gives you a closer view. Photos of the week: Our house at Kasardevi, Almora, Kumaon, Uttarakhand,…
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An open forest
An open forest In 2011 we were building our house on a mountain slope in Kumaon, in the Indian Himalayas. From the place where I was staying to the construction site I would always walk through this open forest. I still pass through it regularly and still like it. It must be the gentle slope…
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