Out for a Ride...
will be back in a few days!!!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Mundan Sanskar
Mundan Sanskar is a religious ceremony which is done in the first or the third year of a child. This is the first haircut and the haircut signifies all unwanted traits from the past lives getting shaved off.
A lot can happen in a moment
Take this one for instance...
Some cross a railway track
Some quench their thirst
A family finishes its breakfast
Some complete their 10 rounds of the platform as their morning exercise
All this while, one of them was waiting for a train to arrive!
Taken from the overbridge at the Pipariya Railway station in Madhya Pradesh, a few hours away from Jabalpur. Pipariya is the station where you need to get down to reach PachMadi, one of the popular local tourist and religious destinations in Madhya Pradesh, the heart of India!
People I meet
He was the owner of the tea-shop from the previous picture... Thick glasses, no change of expression, no spoken words, and a li'il stiff body language yet letting me taking his picture!
Chai ki Dukaan
the special thing about this tea shop was that the fire was propelled by a device which is used to create high tempratures to melt and shape iron by local iron-smiths! and in this tea shop, it was being used to burn coal!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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India Sir ye cheez dhurandhar,
Jeb Daliddar Dil hai Samandar!
Another still from the bus ride back to Mandla from Kanha!
House Number 76
Traveling in public transport in India has one big advantage. Often treated as a disadvantage though, public transport slows down the pace of your travel to a considerable extent. To a few who believe the destination is about traveling, its a pain in the wrong places, but for people who treat the journey as the destination enjoy it like nothing else!
This is an image from somewhere near Mandla taken from a bus to Mandla from Kanha.
The little green bird...
Or Mitthu was a co-traveler from Kanha to Mandla. The young fella was happily entertaining the people in the bus by sleeping when the bus was moving, and crying out loud whenever it stopped. To the amusement of people, the bus had to make quite a few stops and that kept it awake and others engaged!
Out for the Weekend!
शुक्रवार का था इंतज़ार
हफ्ता बीता
और आ गए सरकार
खरीदी उड़ने वाली चिड़िया की टिकेट
डाला झोले में सामान
जा रहे हैं सहर से बाहर करने थोडी मस्ती
ऊपर वाला हैं हम पर मेहरबान
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Tea being prepared on a wood-fire makeshift stove in a road side dhaba just outside the first check post gate outside Kanha
Abundance in Kanha
A few things you would find in Kanha
1. Maruti Gypsy Vehicles
2. Guides
3. Bamboo
4. Photographers
Sons of the soil
Seen in this image are Langoors (black faced Monkey) eating soil... It keeps the digestive system of these monkeys strong
Chase at the Pond
The Peacock had ticked off the deer for some reason and he was chasing away the peacock... not so usual but hilarious sight for sure!!
I was lucky to get both of them in the same frame! :)
Recommended Reading : More about this part of the MP trip on Chai Ki Dukaan
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One of many roads in the Kanha National Park which jeeps follow for a Safari... Routes are carefully assigned to Safari Jeeps to ensure that the traffic in the park is equally distributed...
Recommended Reading : More about this part of the MP trip on Chai Ki Dukaan
Togetherness
Deepali and Gaurav... a match made in heaven!
and with this finishes my fall collection for now... have a few more photographs, but would post them sometime later... on a dull day to make things brighter :)
Locked up
Was a lock on the floor. Li'il different than what I have seen so far because it did not seem it was safeguarding anything!
Passenger on 16
The bus from Mandla to Kanha... Slow for the route, but gives you a good taste of the rural MP. One of the best rides of my MP trip last year!
Recommended Reading : More about this part of the MP trip on Chai Ki Dukaan
Vinod and vinod
Our bogie caretakes of the Gondwana Express...
Hard to believe but there were a total of 6 Vinods on that train that evening who were assigned to various bogies!
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