Cassia Fistula Blooms in Making

Cassia Fistula Flower Buds

Cassia Fistula or golden shower flower buds captured on the way to Pune from Mangaluru, near Hubballi. My dream to capture ‘Konde’ or Cassia Fistula flowers got fulfilled on 20th April 2014. We were traveling from Mangaluru to Pune. I got my first clicks of Golden Shower tree near Udupi. I…

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Mysore Dasara – Creative Word Art

A creative word art depicting symbolic representation of ‘Mysore Dasara’ in a greeting card drawn using Adobe Photoshop Sketch app. Navaratri is special to Karnataka because of the world famous Mysore Dasara. Cultural city Mysore gets busy with Dasara from the first day of Navaratri. The celebration continues till the…

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Drizzling Shraavana – ಶ್ರಾವಣದ ಸೋನೆ ಮಳೆ!

Witnessing the drizzles of Shraavana maasa is a delightful sight. Every leaf and every flower smile bathing in the love of Shraavana raindrops. Mother earth peacefully takes in every drop of rain. I enjoyed watching such Shraavana rain in my native on 27th of August. Sharing two of the beautiful…

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Happy Independence Day!

Bhaarata! Bharatavarsha! Jambudweepa! Tianzhu (Tenjiku)! Hind! Hindustan! Hodu! India! All the above names are of our motherland! Multiple traditions, hundreds of languages, vast variety of traditional arts… Geographical diversity… All colour our nation vividly…. We have enough of traditions, languages and arts but we heartily welcome anything good from outside…

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Celebrating Life…

I was celebrating life being a part of this wonderful world, where the sun shines and the earth is alive… Where seeds sprout and hence new lives, new hopes and new promises begin… Where flowers bloom, each with its unique beauty, fragrance and life… Where birds sing, each with its…

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Tender Coconut, Summer and Beaches…

Monsoon is expected to hit Kerala by June 5th and as a hint, summer is becoming unbearable in India, off course, in Pune too. I am a great lover of tender coconut and because of which, I love summer too 🙂 When we are on Pune-Mangaluru road, we try to…

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