I miss flowing water. The sound of a gushing waterfall or crashing waves, the mildly blowing salty or fresh winds is what I miss the most about home. But somewhere, in some happy garden, there are such makeshift waterfalls in Pune. How I wish I could hear the sound of water, but not falling rain……
Category: Nature
A New Year With A New Promise
It has been so long that I have shared my pictures on the space which I consider close to my heart. And then I read a post that helped me stare the stark reality of my virtual existence: Something that a lot of my peers have been suggesting for the past few months. And then…
Monsoon Magic!
OK, as you’d have already noticed, I haven’t been writing a lot here lately. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been lying low. The shutter bug in me has been very much active, and here is a small collection of the monsoons that I clicked over the last two years. It includes foods, monuments, and everyday…
Silent Sundays: The Sun
Time for another Silent Sunday! Every week, I’ll put up a picture that would ask you, my dear visitor, to give me a perspective instead. Feel free to drop in a line about the picture. Wish you a great new week ahead!
A Few Drops Of Hope
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by B.J. Thomas Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed Nothin’ seems to fit Those raindrops are fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’ So I just did me some talkin’ to the sun And I said…
Flowers of Wisdom
Goddess Saraswati is usually depicted sitting on a lotus flower. The pink lotus depicts the Supreme Reality, while a white lotus stands for the highest level of knowledge and purity. The goddess sitting on a lotus express that the deity roots herself in the Supreme Reality, and hence possesses the power of ultimate knowledge. I…
Connecting Lines
I have an innate affection for the sea. It looks pristine most of the times and takes each time of the day in its stride to offer some amazing scenes of nature. This is a shot of the beach at Dadar, and you can see Mumbai’s first and only Sea Link (the Bandra-Worli Sea Link), named after former…
Nosey Matters
Dukes Nose or Nagphani (A Snake’s hood in Marathi), named after Duke Wellington is a short trek that can be seen and access from the Khandala Ghats. The cliff also houses the Tiger’s point where once tigers were often spotted. I am not too good with treks (I am gravitationally challenged), I can climb up hill, but cannot climb down…
Soak Up The Sun!
I finally learnt about how the F/Stop works on my camera! Taken on a partly cloudy sky, you can see the sun peep out of a thin veil of cloud. And the rays look absolutely glorious! Don’t you think?
Weekly Photo Challenge: Possibility
Tonight, women mainly from North Indian communities observe Karva Chauth, on the fourth night of the full moon of the Hindu calendar month Kartik that falls after the Autumnal Equinox. As a part of the ritual, married women fast from sunrise to moonrise, praying for the safety and long life of their husbands. It they also pray that they should be blessed…