Healthy snacks

These pictures are from a popular tourist spot - Mahabaleshwar. Tourists throng here to see the sights at the hill station and they also get treated to a lot of snacky food - but snacks like bowls of fresh fruits and vegetables and fresh juice and buttermilk! Not processed food. No sugar laden chemical laden soft drinks and no sandwiches or burgers. Lots of berries, fruits, corn cobs, carrots and lemon juice and butter milk!

These are not markets...but snack joints. Lets hope they stay this way.

A woman vendor in a pink sari boiling corn to serve as a snack to tourists.

Lot of berries - black berries, mulberries and strawberries. A man selling lemon juice in the background.

This woman is making fresh buttlermilk to be served up in glasses to drink on a hot day. A healthy and refreshing drink

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Bus Passengers in India

Bus passengers in India have it more uncomfortable than those in developed countries. For one thing, buses are crowded and people have to stand. Also, no air conditioning in public buses. Only the young and the healthy can travel without a problem. This photograph was taken in Chennai

A young man staring out of a window of a public bus in Pune.

Two men sitting inside a bus, a private one in this case. One of the passengers is listening to music on his ipod. This bus ride is more comfortable. Reflection of the city sky scrapers in the glass.

This lady is certainly not comfortable! It's crowded and its hot. She is busy adjusting her dupatta to keep away the male gaze.

Passengers traveling in a not very crowded bus in Pune.

Passengers leaning out of a bus

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Gateway of India view from the sea

The Gateway of India is a monument built by the British Raj in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is right opposite the Taj Mahal Hotel, and on the waterfront of the Arabian Sea in South Mumbai. It is built like an arch, and is 26 metres high.

The Gateway was built erected to "commemorate the landing of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary at Apollo Bunder when they visited India in 1911" It is built in the Indo-Saracenic style. The monument was completed in 1924.

Here is a view of the Gateway of India taken from a boat. It's the view from the sea.

A view of the Gateway of India from a little further down the sea. In this shot you can see the Taj Mahal Hotel as well which in fact dwarfs the Gateway of India. A row of tourist boats lined up in the area.

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Monkey eating Ice Golas!

The Indian Ice Gola, a type of ice-cream is famous. So popular is it that monkeys too love it! This is a kind of instant ice candy made from crushed ice. You need to add salt and make small ice balls. Pour a sweet and colored flavouring syrup on it and viola! A gola is ready to eat. Golas are typical of India and sold everywhere by vendors, particularly at markets, fairs and tourist places. These photographs are of monkeys eating the golas thrown away by customers.

This monkey is making the most of a brown gola at a tourist spot in Mahabaleshwar.

If one has found a gola, another is not far behind. They are biting hard!

This monkey is worried that the gola is dripping water, and never mind the garbage around! Sadly people discard the food in open garbage bins.

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Krishna Temple Ceiling Art

These are photographs of the ceiling of the Krishna Temple or Krishnabai temple, located in Old Mahabaleshwar. The temple is more than 7 centuries old but well maintained.

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Krishna Temple in Mahabaleshwar

These are photographs of the Krishna Temple or Krishnabai temple in Old Mahabaleshwar. It is more than 7 centuries old, and was built by King Singhan of Deogiri. He built it at the source of the Krishna river. The temple is ancient and partly in ruins but it is well maintained. It overlooks a steep cliff from where one can get a lovely view. Amazing that despite being exposed to high winds and rain it still maintains its original shape.

There is a small pond in the courtyard of this ancient temple into which the waters of the Krishna river fall (from the mount of the Nandi). In this photographs you can see the carved stone pillars. Every part of this temple is beautifully carved.

The Nandi at the entrance to the temple

Another view of the temple's  open corridors and the carved pillars. The ceilings are also carved and these will be shown in another post.

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Washing clothes by hand

These are pictures of people washing clothes manually in Rural India. This first one is of a woman in an orange sari scrubbing clothes with her hand, lathering the clothes, as she sits on her haunches near pots of water drawn from a well. All these people in rural India use natural sources of water to wash clothes, like wells and rivers.

Women bending over buckets of clothes soaked in soapy water next to a well.

An old man scrubbing clothes with a detergent bar next to a river.

A long shot of the same man sitting hunched on the river side washing clothes by hand.

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Sari drying on a village wall in India

Images of a saree being hung out to dry. Most Indians, even if they use washing machines, do not use dryers. And their clothes are not small and thus drying them around small houses can become a problem. Saris are simply hung out to dry anywhere, at times even on the grass.

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Krishna Temple

The Krishna Temple or Krishnabai temple in Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra) was built in the 13th century by King Singhan of Deogiri at the source of the Krishna river. It is located in Old Mahabaleshwar. The temple is ancient and partly in ruins but it is well maintained. It is a short walk (a rough road) into the jungle from the Panchganga temple. It is situated at the edge of a cliff and there is a breathtaking view. However it being exposed thus to the natural elements has meant that erosion has eaten away the temple to some extent.

There are more beautiful sculptures and art inside the temple - Krishna Temple of Mahabaleshwar.

This is an image of the temple from the other side of the temple, the entrance. It is built in a horse shoe shape with a small pond (where the Krishna river water flows out) in the courtyard.

This is a closer look. The corridors on the side have carved pillars and the ceilings are also carved. Photographs are not allowed in the inner sanctum which is always wet. The water seeps through the ground. It is the source of the Krishna river.

As it was in the hot season the water which comes out of the mouth of the nandi is just a trickle. But this is the source of the Krishna river.

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