Picto Diary

Picto Diary - 14 January 2016 - Shahpura (PM)

Despite seeming cooperative communal relations in India at the village and community level, there are fault lines of communal antagonism at the national level.

Picto Diary - 14 January 2016. - To Shahpura

Shock channels a bygone, glorious era. Lotus Tours.

Picto Diary - 13 January 2016 - Udaipur

The privy purse was halted by Indira Gandhi, via constitutional amendment, in 1971.

Picto Diary - 12 January 2016 - Kumbhalgarh and Chaumukha Mandir

The fort remained impregnable to direct assault and fell only once, due to a shortage of drinking water...

Picto Diary - 11 January 2016 (Supplement 3) Negani!

A different route.... a different leopard, I said.

Picto Diary - 11 January 2015 (Supplement 2) Wildlife

I include the image of the truncated croc to show how large this animal was.

Picto Diary - 11 January 2016 (Supplement 1) - No osteoporosis?

No hunched over women of a certain age with osteoporosis here?

Picto Diary - 11 January 2016 - AM. Best Nigel sighting yet!

Hear no evil. See no evil. Do no evil.

Picto Diary - 10 January 2016 - Nigel... briefly

I whispered to my Maruti mates... 1%, Heat, the Admiral, and JD (guide) that I had a sighting. Almost immediately, Nigel arose, and walked about 20 feet into a cave.

Picto Diary - 10 January 2016 - Countryside notes

But it's only as a human that you can gain sufficient self-knowledge to escape the cycle of reincarnation and achieve moksha (liberation).

Picto Diary - 09 January 2016 - Nigel

Wow! Fulfilled! A leopard sighting our first outing.

Picto Diary - 09 January 2016 - On the Road Again

Haunting and beautiful breakfast atmospherics with the background flute music.