Saturday, 6 May 2017

THE SEAT OF GREAT TEACHERS





Ruins of the ancient University of Nalanda reveal hundreds of years of building and rebuilding. The structures, though coalescing in seamless geometrical patterns, are located at a variety of levels. This platform in foreground is believed to have functioned as the Teachers' lecture seat. (He may have needed a booming voice to address hundreds of pupils in such assemblies).

Friday, 5 May 2017

NATURE'S TANGO



Nature's ecological ballet in view as one plant species has a stranglehold over the seemingly reluctant other (suitor plant had crept up three stories to meet the potted plant). 

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

NALANDA-RAJGIR TRAIL



Intriguing structures from ancient times punctuate the landscape in Rajgir-Nalanda region. The one here called 'Treasury' is carved into the thickly vegetated hillside. The accessible chamber is dark and empty.(could there be a fortune lying around?).