A fabulous trip to Mandawa in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. On the journey from Delhi to Mandawa a group of brightly clad Rajasthani women carrying Ganga Jal to a temple, the tall gateway to Mandawa town so narrow that a bus can just about scrape through, camel and donkey carts have right of way [...]
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A beautiful morning out at Jama Masjid in Old Delhi and then Nizamuddin in South Delhi…
Sonargaon, in ruins
Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Destruction, Heather Pillar, Heritage, Hindu, mosque, river, Ruins, Sadarghat, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, temple on Apr 26th, 2008
A trip to Sonargaon, around 30 KM from Dhaka city…. the ancient Capital now in ruins. Like a ghost town, the homeless living in abandoned buildings. Buildings that were probably majestic and stately at one time, now crumbling in neglect, robbed of their ornate carved doors and windows, full of rubbish and the homeless… pathetic [...]