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Published on: February 27, 2009
A memorial in downtown Mumbai for the Maratha revolutionists who had fought for joining
Bombay to the state of Maharashtra. The incidental background gives the torchbearer a futuristic context.
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Published on: February 26, 2009
Flora Fountain is a memento from the colonial days of
Bombay. The tiny park around it used to be a favourite spot to meet friends. It is now called Hutatma Chowk in memory of Maratha freedom fighters.
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Published on: February 25, 2009
Fresh flower garlands piled up in front of a Varanasi temple.
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Published on: February 24, 2009
The Sankatmochan
Hanuman temple in Varanasi is by no means opulent, but it is immensely popular. Masses of garlands make cheap and impressive decoration - though they don't last long.
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Published on: February 23, 2009
When looking at the city of Varanasi from the middle of the Ganges, there's no trace of the troubles, the rush, the temper, the filth and the squalour of the city. There's just the timeless city, the eternal place.
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Published on: February 22, 2009
Many of the
ghats of Varanasi are dedicated to bathing - for bodily hygiene and spiritual purity.
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Published on: February 21, 2009
Mark Twain remarked that the washerman smashes stones with soft clothes. True: the slanting stone slabs placed on
dhobi ghats are used generation by generation, pounding loads and loads of clothes on them every day. The stones do get worn away.
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Published on: February 20, 2009
The presence of death in Varanasi is not a stifling pall. The city is suffused with an incredibly vibrant aliveness, which the canvas of death only sets of and enhances. For most residents death is not the terrible end, merely a departure from this world, and a wonderful thing.
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Published on: February 19, 2009
Ganga arati is performed every evening in Varanasi: fire, scented smoke and other tokens of luxury are offered to the goddess of the purifying river.
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Published on: February 18, 2009
Vishnu and his wife
Lakshmi - earthly and corporeal love in their faces and postures, but the god's four arms reveal his divinity.
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Published on: February 17, 2009
Kathak dance had been perfected in the royal courts of North India, where Persian court dances were amalgamated with elements of classical Indian dance drama and with the mimetic art of village storytellers.
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Published on: February 16, 2009
One of the most conspicuous characteristics of kathak dance is the amount of spinning done on stage - dazzlingly fast and breathtakingly accurate.
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Published on: February 15, 2009
Odissi dance originates from the state of Orissa in Eastern India. The original temple dance had been developed to glorify
Krishna, and is closely intertwined with one of the most wonderful works of
Sanskrit poetry: the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva.
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Published on: February 14, 2009
Light and shadow on the surface.
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Published on: February 13, 2009
Kandariya Mahadeva - the temple of the The Great God (Shiva) in the Cave - was built at the peak of the architectural burst that created the temples of Khajuraho, right before the decline.
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Published on: February 12, 2009
An intimate farewell to the
Taj Mahal in this little series. Come back any time.
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Published on: February 11, 2009
You've seen the eighth wonder of the world. Admired some of its faces, felt some of its secrets. Now perhaps even the picture-postcard view is meaningful.
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Published on: February 10, 2009
Late in the morning. Under an azure sky the
Taj Mahal shows her complete sparkling beauty.
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Published on: February 09, 2009
The rising sun casts its rays on the side of the
Taj Mahal, giving the inlaid semi-precious stones a fiery glow.
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Published on: February 08, 2009
The sun slowly begins to rise behind the auxiliary building at the side of the
Taj Mahal.
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