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Have been looking at #Chola India for a while for an over-ambitious new project. Here’s a photo I took in 2018 of the ceiling of the shrine dedicated to #Parvati at the Brihadisvara temple in #Thanjavur.

Lord #Shiva 5th C Terracotta, Mathura at Philadelphia Museum “Shiva is ineffable, infinite and eternal, but does reveal himself to man in an extraordinary variety of concrete manifestations in the sculptures and paintings of over 2000 years” - Stella Kramrisch

Beinn Eighe ridge now; sun starting to fall behind Liathach, raven calls, cloud shadows moving on the quartzite screes, a feeling of deep calm. Back down for a high camp in Triple Buttress Corrie (spot the tent).

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Happy Summer Solstice, folks. The turn of the light's tide. It's all downhill from here... Would you cheer me up by telling me about the best place you've ever spent a Summer Solstice? Photos, stories, descriptions... [📷Sunset over Orford Ness by Glen Pearce via @OrfordNessNNR]

“Keep power out of the hands of the ambitious,” declares an old Chinese saying, “as you would keep sharp tools out of the hands of fools.”

Here's an artistic entry for Rajasthan govt's special awareness campaign on #COVID19 promoted by CM @ashokgehlot51 #MainSatarkHoon Miniature artist Tilak Gitai's Bani Thani with a mask featured in a Jaipur @TOIIndiaNews story sometime ago.

जीने के लिए हवा पानी धूप और मिट्टी के साथ अब #SocialDistancing भी बेहद ज़रूरी हो गई है। इस वीडियो में ऐसे ही चंद अशआर हैं, जो भले ही किसी ज़विए से कहे गए हों लेकिन मौजूदा हालात पर सही बैठते हैं। अशआर सुनें और घर पर रहे महफूज़ रहें। वीडियो देखें: youtu.be/NOZaqYtQOOk

“I have a great deal of company in my house,” writes the rich and bountiful Thoreau, “especially in the morning, when nobody cals.”

A traveler is someone less interested in destinations than in lines of enquiry.

'Maharaja Sawai Jagat Singh of #Jaipur Riding an Elephant in Procession with Attendants' Artist:Anonymous Date:mid 19th century Media:Opaque watercolor with Gold & Silver on Paper Type:Drawing #India #SawaiJagatSingh #Rajasthan @iamrana @swativashishtha @KumariRukshmani @tawairkh

As Jaipur bags the @UNESCO #WorldHeritageCity tag here's a #throwback to #JaipurThenandNow, a travelling photography exhibition, documenting #Jaipur's journey across time, which debuted at @ZEEJLF in 2014.

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As Jaipur bags the @UNESCO #WorldHeritageCity tag here's a #throwback to #JaipurThenandNow, a travelling photography exhibition, documenting #Jaipur's journey across time, which debuted at @ZEEJLF in 2014.

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Word of the day: "Ginkgo" - from the Japanese "gin" (silver) & "kyo" (fruit); one of the most distinctive of trees, the fan-shaped leaves of which glow radiant yellow in autumn. Ginkgos have been alive on earth for around 270 m years; they watched us arrive & will watch us leave.

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"When it hurts we return to the banks of certain rivers..." (Czelaw Milosz, 1962)

Being too comfortable is what ought to make us uncomfortable; it means--unless we're enlightened--we’re living too far from truth, or from real life.

Flowers and romance in a Persian garden: Khusraw and Shirin from Prince Jalāl al-Dīn Iskandar's 'miscellany' dated 1410/11 bl.uk/manuscripts/Vi… #BLPerMss #ChelseaFlowerShow

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Brighten up this Spring holiday with some floral inspiration from blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri… and blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…

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Member of Parliament & celebrated author @ShashiTharoor reads Wilfred Owen's anti-war poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est' | India Poetry Project Season 2: Resistance | Watch full video here: youtu.be/ZDflnHamjc4

#WorldPoetryDay: Prof @iawoolford pays tribute to #KedarnathSingh | India Poetry Project Season 2: Resistance | Watch full video here: youtu.be/m3zatQ-a4oM

The restless longing to break free, the desert loneliness that follows: is it any wonder that two-sided Springsteen is the true Voice of America?