Tit Bits

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cuckoo on Neem Tree

Raavan's Moustache

God's creation

Lizards

It took me at least 30 minutes

 to click this picture at mid night.

I never saw lizards in this posture

before I clicked this picture.

Hide and Seek by SUN at Victoria Memorial

At Victoria Memorial the sun is setting for the

First Empress Queen Victoria.......

...........No this is not a trophy,
sun chose to hold the lamp post at the Victoria Memorial from its neck........



........here sun prefers to invisebly hide behind the shade of the lamp post

at Victoria Memorial..........

.......the lamp post holds the mighty SUN.......

.........relaxing in the pond after a hectic day.........

.......hiding behind the trees....you naughty........

...............somewhere it is holding the lamp post by its neck and

here it is peeping beneath the lamp post............

........up there it was hiding behind the shade of the lamp post

and here it is reflecting below the lamp post........

........up in trees and grills......

.......giving light to the thrown of the Empress Victoria 

 lamp posts are faithfully accompanying the mighty SUN.......

.......bye bye Queen Victoria, enjoy the company

sunsets

Sun is setting in Lonawala....

..... behind the trees in Pinjore Garden....

Pinjore Garden is on the foothills of Shivalik range about 20 kms from Chandigarh,  made in seven steps the true Mughal Architecure that one is found in Shalimar and Nishat Bagh in Jammu & Kashmir.  Also known as Yadvindra Garden.  Yadvindra was the father of Maharaja Patiala, Capt. Amrinder Singh

....again in Pinjor Garden.....

....behind the ruins of St. Augustine Tower, Goa....

these ruins are on the Holly Hill in Old Goa...

.....behind the Sangam Cinema, Delhi....

Sangam Cinema was in front of my house....

clicked this pic from the balcony of my house...



......rays peeping out of the clouds in Delhi...

.....over the candolim beach, Goa...

candolim beach, I found the most happening place in Goa,

 a unique mixture of locals and foreigners...

one can sit for hours on the ramparts of Fort Aguada and

watch the setting of sun in the Arabian Sea.......

.....in the madavi river, Goa...

......again the Mandavi river, Goa....

......Mandavi river....

......Mandavi River.....

.......over the Arabian Sea, in Candolim, Goa...

......in Candolim, Goa, leaving its relection in the stones also....

.....over the Arabean Sea, in Mira Mar Beach, Goa

....on the waves in Meera Maar..... 

...here sun is keeping an eye on these three boys busy in fishing...

......at Bogmalo beach, Goa

.....getting ready to sit on the head of the bull....

......preparing to settle down on the horns of these bulls,

Bogmalo beach, Goa

......Bogmalo Beach....

sri lanka

This is an orphanage for Elephants. 

You can see elephants with broken limbs-

some of them are victims of land mines.   

Restoration work is going on one of the stupas.

  One can imagine the size of stupa with the scaffoldings erected against  it. 

Stupas in Sri Lanka are huge in size in comparison to stupas in India.

Lower part of Budha's statue

Another stupa. I am forgetting the names of these places. 

 I think it is Ruwanwelisaya in Anuradhapura

Reclining Buddha.  I have seen many reclining Buddhas in Sri Lanka.

Reclining Buddha in Dambulla cave temple. 

Stupa in Anuradhapura. 

The other side of the stupa is pasted over with iron scaffoldings.

Reclining Buddha in Dambulla Cave Temple.

Feet of reclining Buddha in Dambulla Cave Temple.

As if this demon is preparing to swallow the Ruwanvelisaya Chedi.

A carved stone on the enterance of the temple.

Ruwanwelisaya   

Ruwanwelisaya 

Ruwanwelisaya 

Ruwanwelisaya 

Do not worry I am holding the chair

Sri Lanka a war torn country.  The beauty of this country is that the ancient monuments are kept well preserved unlike our country. 

 We are a proud country of a very long history and  a rich culture then why can't we keep the reminiscents of our rich culture and history well preserved ????