Conglomeration??

What do you think while seeing this picture? When did this guy go to Europe??? My friends, this is not Europe. Its in the very soil of India and West Bengal. Clicked it last August on a trip to especially this place. This is the Hangseshwari temple in Bansberiya, much near to Kalyani. Actually this one is the newer temple made beside the old temple shown below



The temple complex is truely picturesque with the flora and cleanliness. But what amazes is the various architectural forms in the same place. On the walls of this old temple, sculptures are made similar to other renowned old temples of India as in Khajuraho as well as in Orissa.





As you have seen in the first image, the temple is made in Europian architectural form, there is more to see when one enters the temple. The following photographs show both the Hindu lotus in the ceiling and a Mughal kind of structure inside the temple.





I don't think its worth writing any more. Pay a visit and see for yourself. Although I think Conglomeration is not the right caption but it was the only word that popped up.

Contrast akin

I often take pictures that do not make any meaning. Sometimes they are picturesque, sometimes they are awful. i can't say which category these photographs belong to. I suddenly came across these two in the same folder named 'Faces'. Incidentally, they were placed next to each other. Well, I'm not going to explain why I'm uploading them together. But I think they say something when placed together.



Taken in April 2010 at the field of Pachkathiya in Jharkhand on the birth anniversary of Sido Murmu, the historical leader of Santhal movement.



Taken in October 2010 at Jodhpur Park on the occasion of Durga Puja.

Hide n Seek

Submerged boats are widely taken as a symbol of sorrow or grief. But this one, with its amazing colours and position didn't project any such thought in my mind. We visited Naukuchiataal near Nainitaal last December. There were dozens of such boats kept at a little distance from this one. My Mr. Boat, though submerged, looked like either he is playing Hide n Seek or he has just eloped from slavery and taken refuge under the shade of a tree with a blue blanket on.