| Mendicants..... |
[May. 5th, 2008|11:26 pm] |
Here's a picture I like against all the rules.
The rules are:
1. Don't have a tree in the middle of the photograph.
2. Do not have a distracting element (like the gate-post) at one side of the photograph.
...and some others, too.
But...
I love that tree, and the steady stride those sadhus (religious mendicants) are keeping up, the casual curiosity of one, and the open road that lies beyond the gate of the JLR property; the gate and the wall stand for what is enclosed,known, secure; the road stands for what is open, unknown, a mystery... and those mendicants, with no worldly possessions, are off on that road...a road, hopefully, to the discovery of the universe within themselves.
On the way back, we also saw several Buddhists monks travelling. But these are Jain monks, I think, or Hindu ones...I don't know.
Bandipur...always something to intrigue one, and make one think.
I do wish *I* could shed my worldly possessions and stride off towards the forests like these monks are doing....!
Here's the cropped photo; no gate, only the tree, the monks, and the song of the open road:
This may not be a "distracting" photograph, but to me the unworldliness of the road and the monks lacks a counterpoint.
That's the difference between the content of a photograph and its artistic composition! |
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| night driving on the BLr-Chennai highway.. |
[Sep. 22nd, 2007|01:02 am] |
too tired to think...but must jot down points about fluorescent paint, divided highway, toll gates, excellent road, no trees, no lane discipline, wrong way traffic,
just got back, off at 5 am tomrrow for plastic clean up with clean and green.. |
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| Loved this hoarding on the Chennai-Bengaluru highway... |
[Sep. 4th, 2007|06:18 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | chennai, classical, divine, highway, hoarding, humour, municipality, photography, poonamallee, tamil, third-grade | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | sneezing | ] |
| [ | music |
| | none..except the sneezing | ] |
The people who live in Tamil Nadu, obviously, love their mother tongue, which they call Tamil and I, phonetically, call Tamizh.
And what better way to proclaim that love than....
...to state it in English!!!
And please do NOT miss the fact that Poonamallee is a "third grade" municipality!
I have wanted, for a long time, to capture this for one and all, but the LJ, Flickr, and the S3 had to happen first! |
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| Yet another great day... |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|03:20 pm] |
Can't post photos...don't know how, and didn't take any...but this morning, drove back from Chennai to Blr on the really excellent (except for patches) National Highway 7, which, though not as scenic as the old Madras Road, still got us from point to point in under 6 hours. The Honda CR-V, for all that I detest the idea of using a SUV for the 2 of us, is a dream to drive, and I, who never drive by the speedometer but by the road conditions, found myself pushing 120 kmph on amazingly long stretches. The only danger on this road is that, for various reasons including the road being under construction, traffic often appears on the wrong side of the road, and one always has to be careful.
Getting the brass lamps, kolam, and eats ready for the Deepavali festival tomorrow. Feel so incredibly lucky and privileged to have everything that I could possibly want. |
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