Freedom !

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

– Shawshank Redemption

Kutch Diaries 2014 !

Vijay Vilas Palace

Inside Aina Mahal

Inside Aina Mahal

Mathal Dam

Vijay Vilas Palace

Traditional Paited Door

Mandvi Beach

Pragmahal Palace

Pragmahal Palace

City of Bhuj from the top of Pragmahal Palace

Still trying to understand who is more surprised !

Almost 15 kms of straight road with farm lands on both sides

National Highway Passing through a small town of Nakhtrana

Cotton Farm

That taste of tea made of Goat milk

Mathal 0 km

One hundred miles of solitude

Cattles coming home

Spiritual Illumination !

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

– Khalil Gibran

 

Location : Swaminarayan Temple, Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, India

Perspective !

 

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

 – Douglas Adams

Last Wish !

 

भरोसा है खुदी पर !

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भरोसा है खुदी पर, नाखुदा की इल्तिजा कैसी,
मेरी कश्ती ही साहिल है, मेरी कश्ती में साहिल है।

– Daag Dehlvi

Memories that live forever !!

Using this poem from movie Udaan again to express the idea and thought behind the picture.

छोटी छोटी चित्रायी यादें
बिछी हुई है लम्हों की lawn पर
नन्गे पाओ उन पर चलते चलते
इतनी दूर चले आये
की अब भूल गए है जूते कहा उतारे थे !!

एडी कोमल थी जब आये थे
थोड़ी सी नाज़ुक है अब भी
और नाज़ुक ही रहेगी
इन खट्टी मीठी यादों की शरारत
जब तक इन्हें गुदगुदाती रहे !!

सच, भूल गए है
की जूते कहा उतारे थे
पर लगता है अब उनकी जरुरत नहीं !!

Vea & I

A daughter is one of the most beautiful gift this world has to give !!

Smiling against odds !

This little girl – daughter of Balloon vendor on Carter road, Bandra radiates with beautiful smile against all odds. Everytime I look at this picture I am reminded of wonderful song by Eagles for I don’t know why !!

I was standing all alone against the world outside. You were searching for a place to hide. Lost and lonely, now you’ve given me the will to survive. When we’re hungry, Love will keep us alive.

I still haven’t found what I’m looking for !

And the quest continues as you seek !! You seek love, meaning, serendipity, knowledge, happiness. And as they say, no matter what you get, what you achieve, there is always something left to be done. And that’s life.

“You broke the bonds and you
Loosed the chains
Carried the cross
Of my shame
Of my shame
You know I believed it”