The Peacock Door





Oooh! I am a wildflower!

To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Reflection

Location: Mattanchary Palace, Kochi

Nobody knows this little Rose

Nobody knows this little Rose

It might a pilgrim be

Did I not take it from the ways

And lift it up to thee.

Only a Bee will miss it

Only a Butterfly,
Hastening from far journey

On its breast to lie

Only a Bird will wonder

Only a Breeze will sigh

Ah Little Rose -- how easy

For such as thee to die!

--- Emily Dickinson

Pic location: Garden of Five Senses, Delhi

Really, Who am I?

'I died as a mineral and became a plant,

I died as plant and rose to animal,

I died as animal and I was Man,'

~Rumi~

Location: Garden of Five senses, Delhi

A view of the courtyard!

How much I love,

looking through

these intricately carved meshes

in the balconies

of such old majestic forts.

The black-woven veil

setting me adrift

to the sati queens

and the psychedelic kings

of such old majestic forts.

Picture location: Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur

The Thar Experience - Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur

Mehrangarh Fort stands a hundred feet in splendour on a perpendicular cliff, four hundred feet above the sky line of Jodhpur. Burnished red sand stone, imposing, invincible and yet with a strange haunting beauty that beckons . Much has been written about the Citadel of the Sun, for truly, it is one of the most impressive in all Rajasthan.

Text Source: www.mehrangarh.org/
Pics: Shelly Jain

Odissi recital at Purana Quila

Location: Purana Quila, Delhi

Artistic voices

At the holy ghats of Pushkar