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. in the kindness of sleep the nowness of now #haiku #urbanku #senryu #Thane #Labradors #Myshka #zen #sleep (at Vijay Enclave)

. afternoon calm... the shadows shorten over the dead #haiku #senryu #urbanku #Pali #Raigad #cemetery #Zambhulpada (at Pali, Maharashtra, India)

. chai ramakra the comfort of home beyond home #ParsiChoi #BrunMaska #IdealCorner #haiku #senryu #urbanku #Mumbai #Parsis (at Ideal Corner)

"Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair" Picture credit Aditya Patil. #Mansar #Purushamedha #Sacrifice #Nagpur #Vakataka #ASI

Photo taken as Roms mikes up for the lecture on the three 'emperors' on the Allahabad Pillar, and the worldview of each. She spoke of how the Mauryan state under Ashoka saw itself as a sort of defender of the faith, with marriage and trade relations with the post-Alexandrine Greek states to the northwest, while keeping a certain aloofness from the people to the extreme south. Of how the Gupta state, with its martial pretensions (since the Guptas had to legitimise non-Kshatriya origins), followed a more aggressive policy towards the south (on stone at least) while building trade networks across the eastern seas, ignoring to some extent the northwest. And finally of how the Timurid Mughal state chose by accident of history the same pillar (or perhaps some understanding that this was no ordinary pillar) to impose its own claims of legitimacy, under Jahangir's someone's majestic, sometimes fanciful imprint, with a worldview that reeks of self assurance if not outright arrogance. Three stories spun out of a single pillar in a neglected city on the Gangetic plain, each masterful (though there were plenty of gaps), and each presenting a portrait of an emperor, who was fallible after all. #RomilaThapar #CSMVS #IndiaAndTheWorld #Museum #Epigraphy #History #Archaeology #Allahabad #AllahabadPillar (at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya)

#SleepyNewYear #Labrador #Dudley

. Happy New Year with our old habits still unbottled #senryu #urbanku #rise #haiga #haiku #happynewyear (at Thane railway station)

. polished again ... the shadows of our past dance a new tune (Uttareshwar Temple Door, conserved and restored, Chalukya period, 4th-5th c. CE. Now at Ter Museum) #TerMuseum #senryu #haiga #urbanku (at In Osmanabad District)

. puppy fight... picking up the pieces of adulthood #crema #senryu #haiga #urbanku #dogs #thane (at Waghbil Naka)

after the rains... the furrows bloom again on my forehead #wabisabi #haiga #senryu #gingham #haiku #urbanku #ter

. walking away... the pipistrelles wait for moonrise (at Naldurg Fort)

In a cage named Mahatma, Little desires called Mohandas #gandhi #gandhijayanti #signature #scripts (at Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya (Gandhi Museum))

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