Thursday, February 19, 2015

Fruits of pilgrimage: people of Chhattisgarh (छत्तीसगढ़िया)

We meet amazing people in our life.  
Though strangers they are but bear character of profound depth and diversity.


Their story quote with photograph 
makes it magical-reality, as if this being an incredible act of  freezing a fleeting moment.

Portrait of strangers, inhabitants of a state
vibrant monologue of human life
to share herewith !!





"I am the one who started sowing tomato and potato crops first time in this village."


Which crop you are sowing right now ?

"Onion, Okra, Corn."

And you do it alone ?

"I have 15 acres of land. Which is sufficient to us. My son helps me a lot. Since last three generations we are singles in the family. My grand father, me and my son....one in the generations. I have all the machines, tools, tractor, motors needed for the farming."

And your success credit goes to ?

"Did you see the sudden rains we had last night. It came from the Himalayas. Clouds comes from Badrinath and water from the Rameshwaram."

"These are the holy places for the Hindus, which I have visited all."

"Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Haridwar, Gangasagar, Puri, Rameshwaram, Kanyakumari, Tirupati bala, Madurai, Dwarikadheesh, Vrindawan, Gokul, Mathura, Ayodhya, Allahabad." 

"Gangotri is the coldest place of all in northern Himalayas."

"Grace of god is so important in our lives."

Sadharan Ram, Saraitikra near Ambikapur
Sadharan Ram with son Budhan Ram, Saraitikra near Ambikapur
Sadharan Ram, Saraitikra near Ambikapur
Sadharan Ram, Saraitikra near Ambikapur

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Morning at Ambikapur Railway station

Poets have found trains irresistible. Steam's mucky glamour may only exist now between the covers of The Railway Children, but the romance of the railway lives on. Certainly, there's something compelling about the environment to which the train exposes you - it's the train's ability to suspend you between here and there - outside regimented time, away from the quotidian - that attracts. There's something regenerative in the act of boarding a train in one place and disembarking in another, without having actively engaged in the process at any juncture; it transports, in both senses of the word (
The train is running on the track, track, track 
And I’m sitting in the carriage at the back, back, back
For we’re going on a journey that is fast, fast, fast
The fields and the cows whizz past, past, past
We’re going to the seaside very quick, quick, quick
And I’m listening to the wheels as they click, click, click
And we’re going over the hills to the top, top top
But slowly, very slowly, we come to a station and we stop, stop, stop..sssshhhhhhh
(by Brenda Williams)
Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways
Dawn break as soft light from the east envelopes all while moon light in the west sky fades gradually looks as if hanging from the lamp post, train ready to take passengers for their journey in cold winter morning.
Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― Augustine of Hippo
Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways
Listen to the quiet peaceful dawn. Sun touching the rim of spaces' night. Stars fading to brushes of paint In whirlwinds of dusk colored breezes. Passing away the moon's guard To the light of the sun's shift begins Now sweeping into a new day. (share courtesy:Gelene Beverly)
Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways
The platform of Ambikapur (India) Railway Station in an early morning glow
This railway station became operational on 3rd June 2006
Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways
Side view of the Railway Station building
Ambikapur Railway Station/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi/Indian Railways
Old kingly palace of  'Ambikapur' State (popularly known as 'Surguja' State)
Surguja Palace Ambikapur/©Anjani Kumar Tripathi

http://throughpicture.blogspot.in/2013/03/architecture-with-endemic-flavour.html
http://throughpicture.blogspot.in/2013/09/romance-of-indian-rail-in-hilly-terrain.html