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Ajanta: A Fading Masterpiece

2014/06/182017/08/03 Jitaditya Narzary 8 Comments Ajanta Caves, Archaeology, Buddha, Jalgaon, Jataka, Maharashtra

Ajanta Caves offer two different attractions. Rock cut sculptures and paintings.

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Stoned by the stones: Ellora Cave No. 10, 21, 29 and 32

2014/06/082017/08/03 Jitaditya Narzary 11 Comments Archaeology, Aurangabad, Ellora Caves, Maharashtra

Postcards from major Ellora Cave No. 10, 21, 29 and 32

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Stoned by the stones: Ellora Cave No. 16

2014/04/282017/08/03 Jitaditya Narzary 5 Comments Cave 16, Ellora, Maharashtra Tourism, rashtrakuta

Ellora Cave No. 16 is a Hindu Cave built during the Rashtrakuta period in the eighth century. It is called Kailashnath Temple as it was designed to replicate Mount Kailasha.

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Bibi Ka Maqbara at the Golden Hour

2014/04/132017/08/03 Jitaditya Narzary 8 Comments Aurangabad, Aurangzeb, Bibi Ka Maqbara, Maharashtra

Bibi Ka Maqbara, the Taj Mahal of the Deccan, is the mausoleum of Auragzeb’s wife and is situated in the Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

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Kas Plateau: Seductive Sahyadri, Sadistic Showers

2012/10/282017/12/21 Jitaditya Narzary 12 Comments "India backpacking", "India Photography", "India travel", india backpacker, kaas plateau, kas pathar, kas plateau, Maharashtra, Monsoon travel, Satara, Shahyadri, Western Ghats

The Kas Plateau or Kaas Plateau is a southern valley of flowers that comes alive merely for a month or two in the late monsoons. Bad weather almost ruined my trip, here is what I could salvage.

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Vintage Mumbai Picnik’ed

2011/08/042017/12/18 Jitaditya Narzary 4 Comments "India Photography", Kala Ghoda, mumbai, Picnik, sobo, south bombay

Let me share a few vintage SoBo photographs taken on a day during the Kala Ghoda festival. South Bombay, with its colonial architecture and nostalgic charm, always offers something that the rest of the city can never do. Now that I am out of Mumbai, SoBo looks even more seductive.

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Night of Eid in Mumbai

2011/07/012017/12/21 Jitaditya Narzary 4 Comments crescent moon, Eid ka chand, mumbai, night landscape

This is not a single picture. I was desperate to shoot something like this on that very night, the night of Eid-ul-fitr. (For the uninitiated, it is a very important Islamic festival that is marked by the sighting of the crescent moon with the star).