Badami…. The land of Maharshi Agastya, was once a significant centres and capital of Chalukya empire in its past glorious period.
The beauty of Badami caves and monuments spread around Agastya lake is just out of the world. Built around 6th century by Chalukya, Its ruins are the signature of the beginning of powerful Chaulkya dynasty glory.
Carved out of a red sandstone hill overlooking the beautiful Agasthya lake, out of all the location here Badami caves happens to be the main tourist attraction. Adorned with many exquisite sculptures, the style and architecture remind us of magnificent ellora caves. Its also a fine example of the united fabric of secular India having Hindu , Jains and Buddhist structure in the same premises.
Let me take you through the photologue …the story of the chisel and hammer to build worlds magnificent extravaganza and the remmants still tell us how glorious the bygone era was.
Spirituality in actuality… A road trip to South of India covering 4000+ km with dear friends Ravi Bhavnani and Deepak Chadda in our beloved Duster, remembering our great anchestors with immence gratitude for giving us the glorious history and signing it with proof on wall. Badami… a must visit for beautiful and magnificant signatures on sandstone hills.
My fascination with universe begin with very tender age.
Nehru Center being my father’s client I got to attend lot many show when I didn’t even understood anything about stars yet it sowed a seed of interest. As a kid I always wanted to be a Pilot. Fireball serial made me dream of being astronaut. Sputnik, Voyager name excited me a lot. I still very distinctively remember how Skylab Space Station was going to fall on us and the panic and chaos coupled with so many rumors.
I was always fascinated by Milky way pictures posted on various SM site and was quite desperate to see it through my own eyes. Staying in an urban concrete jungle with one of the most light polluted city Mumbai it was next to impossible to see it anytime. It was only in the month of May 2018 I could witness this grand phenomena with family and friends after travelling almost 200 KM away from the city to a place called Bhandardara on one of the darkest of night. Read More
Sitting on the lush green lawn looking at the magnificent Kandariya Mahadev Temple, Pained I wonder… Why such an architectural splendor and artistic expressions, beautiful to the core and full of life monuments are notoriously marketed as some sort of full of erotic obscene figurines.
Khajuraho known earlier as Kharjuravahaka, supposedly date palm trees at the gate… but other important aspect which is ignored or overlooked is the scorpion on the thigh of the motifs., symbolic to a poisonous lust. Read More
STEP WELLS… Usually is a concept seen only in India. Throughout India there are dozens of step well. Maharashtra has one too. Step wells are used for water retention and distribution. Baramotichi Vihir, ancient Step Well, 110 feet deep and 50 feet in diameter, octagonal in shape was constructed between 1641 AD and 1646 AD by Sahu Virubhai Bhosale. It was meant to be a water source to all the farms around and a huge Amrai Garden with its 12 moats. Read More
Beauty of life lies hidden in even the most seemingly desolate of places. Kopeshwar Temple, relatively unknown to masses, some 60 Km from Kolhapur at the border of Maharashtra and Karnataka is one such beautiful world of stunning beauties and hidden gem of an architectural marvel blended with mesmerizing and awe inspiring extravagant masterpiece of sensuous carvings and sculptures. Read More
Poetry in stones….. a pure love story of chisel and stone.
This shilp is one of the most amazing sculpture and has a beautiful story around.
शिल्पकार के अद्भुत और उत्क्रुस्त शिल्पकारी का जीता जागता प्रमाण है.
I won’t tell you where exactly its located in Verul cause that will kill the thrill of you going and finding it out on your own but surely will tell you about the story. Read More
Ours perception of beauty in this modern world is so much distorted. Look at these fabulous creation with its amazing and stunning beauty… A world full of Joy and Happiness.. an extraordinary phenomenon… a meaning to life. I soak in to the beautiful world of these stunning beauties with hours blanketed by the deep silences. Sensuousness grasp you at it peak with these voluptuous GanNayikas and SurSundaris. Read More
Ahhh! Mum …..it pains so bad She could do nothing but just yell. Sorry honey, it’s just how the nature plans… But I didn’t chose this, it wasn’t my plan! Don’t disregard it daughter, for it’s each girls faith just hold on to the pain. But why do only girls have such painful faiths…. why […]