Nature's LoveCapturing nature at its best
When you dont have an idea as to where you are heading in life, look outside of your window. From the smallest bees to the largest trees, everything that Mother Nature's created exemplifies its creative beauty. Amidst this beauty, you will definitely find something to hold on to, something meaningful and useful, to guide you.
Orange dusk
Blue Greenery
Pink freshness
Rustic thirst
Road within green walls of nature
My ride, my silent dark beauty
Green sky
Dark aves
Teal waters
Bright mornings
When two roads "converged" in a wood
Green garden
When you travel untravelled routes
Wings of colors
Brightness through darkness
Cool darkness
Messengers of love
Childhood happiness
The White sky
The Bright night
Morning Blue
Delicate pink
Hardy Green
Roses & Reds
Tulips & Reds
Tulip Love
Exemplifying Love from time immemorial
Beautifully pink
Wild flowers
Maroon serenity
A Lover's "accomplice"
Rooted into one's birthland
Petite blue cuteness
The true color of Love
Tranquil red
Pretty Pink
When Red meets Pink
Natural gold: Marigold
Untouched
Silent, brown oblivion
A new beginning
Making people feel good, everyday
The color of f.r.i.e.n.d.s.h.i.p
Love unfolding
Uncommon beauty of common things
A relationship with benefits
Simplicity of purity
Art & Culture Admiring artistic & cultural creativity
We want to grow, to develop, to advance to a future time where we are capable of doing things with perfection. And to do that, we need to understand where our ancestors had erred, how they did things, what inspired them & what fruits their inspiring, creative minds bore for their society. We need to peek in the past to understand how to do things in the future. & Art is one of the channels that takes us through time, back into the time of our forefathers.
Vintage simplicity
History hanging on ropes
Da Vinc.h.i's Bowl
Sounds of time
The other "Childhood"
Imagination in oil
Watercolor realism
Bamboo on canvas
Colors of life explained
Sculpted abstracts
Chiseled life
Abstract Red & Black
Folk touch
Circular Singularity
Sleeping soul in the inanimate
Painted imagination
The "Human" life as God had willed
Reliving momentsB'coz there's nothing more valuable than friendship & family time
The word "L.I.F.E", when rearranged says, "I" will "L"ove my "F"amily & "F"riends "E"ndlessly. Life is not about making journeys to your destinations, its about making it with the right people, and moments spent with them is what you call LIFE.
Family time with Daddu
Mumma
Taking a break
It's ice cream time!
Fun games
Smile of innocence
The sarcastic looks
Hungry
Alone time
Speechless smiles
This is how men meet brothers
The "lateral" view #birthdayBums
Singing cacaphonies
The "Virtual" Guitarists
The sweat soaked, after-party fun
& the "Shayars"
The "perfect" move
Random madnessExploring beauty in chaos
If your ideas are not being called crazy, they are not "great" ideas. If you are not able to find "order" in the "unordered", you are not at all searching for it. Explore the unexplored, be the chaos, live your life as if every moment is a new "wish" you've been granted with.
Samosa love
Fun food-mashups
Loads & loads of yummy calories
French rolls with a "Pink", threaded, creamy twist
Small things, gigantic inpirations
Miniature Class
The "Beast's" shadow
Two-wheel power - mini edition
Vintage blue
Music & Nature
This is for you, my "best" friend
Sometimes bears too fall in love
The modern child's Childhood. #trapped
In love with your perfect imperfections
Colored happiness
Real beauty of artficial flowers
Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh Deva!
Rangoli
Diwali - The festival of lights
My musical enemy - the Guitar
A game liked by all Indians
Travelling with my best eyes
Some gates are meant to be open
Hope brings life back, again & again & again.
Travel diary: HyderabadAwesome food, awesomer people
Food that fills you to the brim but still aapka "dil maange more"; from the mouthwatering Biryanis of Bawarchi & Paradise, the tempting Golden Dosas & fried Idlis of Lakshman's Bandi, the aromatic, refreshing tea of Alfa Hotel to the yummy cakes, scones & cookies of Karachi Bakers, all tempt you to kill your week long dieting plan & treat yourself to a Princely feast in the "Nawaabon ke Shehar".
Beautiful, authentic, forever pearls; Miniature, colorful woodcraft items & a locket with rice grains having names of your precious ones inked on in microscopic handwriting will ensure you have enough "ammo" to defend yourself when questioned with the inevitable "Humein kyun nahi le gaye?" (@English: Why didn't you take us along?).
The beautiful, Classically Modern City of Hyderabad with its sweet native people and their even sweeter "Hyderabadi Hindi", their vocal love for Bahubali & equally vocal hatred for Katappa; everything makes you feel "at" home away from your home.
Small, local "vendors" of cute love
Snow World "Screw seats" to warm you before the snow breeze
Becoz' words never mattered, the feelings beneath them did
Who loves these adorable Cotton candies? I do!
Bring it on!!! #BarbequeNation
Greetings from BBN
Fiery business with "Sea-fficials" on "Sticks"
The sweet-toothed consensus
A little extra is always appreciated. Even more, when it comes topped with soft cream.
All good things have to end sometime.
Travel diary: BhubneshwarTemples, beaches & tranquility
With its tranquil beaches, Coconut flavored sweets, distant temple bells ringing soft, traditional hymns into your ears, this is a place next only to God's own Heaven. If peace & quiest is what you seek, it is what you shall admire in this peaceful, traditional city.
Jagannath Temple
Jagannath Temple
Restoring history: The dome being restored.
Artifacts
Art of yester years
Architectural excellance
"Rock" beauty
Sculpting prowess
The famous Rath
One, monolithic piece of excellant craftmanship
Monocolor History
Beauty of incomplete things
Where history meets newage. #markets
Too many choices, too few to reject
The quiet Sky
The playful sea
An evening too serene to ever forget.
The interdependance of life
Tough outside, soft & pure inside
The only "other company" in your alone-time
Travel diary: RanchiThe only place next to home
A city engulfed by serene forests & waterfalls, blessed by the weather Gods & dotted by some of the best eateries of the state is bound to create love for itself in the heart of a North Indian "Banarsi" who has always lived in places that are either too "crowded" or too "concrete". But, this city's natural advantage doesn't make it my second "home", its because this city houses my best experiences, experiences that I shall cherish forever with people I shall remember forever.
The experience of long, late night bike rides with friends, the small walks to "puchka walas" with lots & lots of things to gossip about, the sumptuous & homely feasts at friends' places cooked with Motherly love, the silly after-dinner debates over "How vegetarians are equally ruthless on plants as non-vegetarians are on animals", the bonny fights over superiority of "cardamom" Tea over "Cinnamon" Tea, the pain of merciless "birthday bombs" bestowed upon you on your birthday & the dreaded sight of a beautifully sculpted, ravishingly delicious cake being aimed straight at your face, obliterated only by the warm hugs and birthday wishes from the same "killing" friends that follow & lots & lots of other stuff which I got to do that I shall love to do again & again &, forever...
My Silent Monster #Jammyvenger
Searching for things, beyond separations.
Only to find ourselves being looked at by small, innocent eyes.
And then there are few who care too much, but care too less to let it be known.
Emu
Paddling experience
Sleeping...Do not disturb!
Even the best fighters need rest to recuperate
"I am hungry. Can I eat YOU dear?"
A tiring afternoon
Pool time!!
Jai Hanuman #Indian macaque
White "blackbucks"
Haathi mera Saathi
"Dancing in the rain, my blues & my violets too"
"I am blank, but not boring." #White peacock
Baby white bucks at play
The serenity admired from "grassroot" level
About meMe, my journey & why I am not just a photographer
This page is no advertisement of what or who I am, but a mere reflection of things I "love" to do & why I am not just "one thing".
I love to TRAVEL.
Travelling gets you to make new friends, meet new people, know about the history & culture of new places & learn many new things.
I love NATURE.
Who doesn't? An Environmental engineer by profession, I love to admire nature's gifts to mankind & try to do my bit in keeping her the way Mother Nature should be
I love ART.
God's gift to see the beautiful in little things unnoticed to others, I have always loved artists & despite my inability to do paintings myself, my Wacom gives me enough strength to express my ideas in the visual form.
I love MUSIC.
Music is what water is to a fish. For me, it is the language in which God speaks to me.
I love FOOD.
Everyone loves to eat. I just go a step forward to know if my food is good, what makes my food good, & where can I find more of the good food, before I eat my food.
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