LIFE BEGINS THE DAY WITH THE GANGA: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (2)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (11)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

LIFE BEGINS THE DAY WITH THE GANGA

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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LIFE IS METAPHORICALLY SIMPLE

My reflections on life – in quotes (LXX)

 

Life is metaphorically simple.

Metaphor in life – or – life in a Metaphor

All you need is to understand this Metaphor.

But first you need to discover this Metaphor.

That is again metaphorical.

LIFE IS METAPHORICALLY SIMPLE

:) 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/

LIFE BEGINS THE DAY WITH THE GANGA: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (1)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (10)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

LIFE BEGINS THE DAY WITH THE GANGA

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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LOK SABHA POLLS: VARANASI ELEMENTS EXPECTED TO BE IN FOCUS

GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014

The day Narendra Modi declared to contest from Varanasi, the constituency became the most prestigious Lok Sabha seat in the country and so came to be the most important constituency for the political analysts and the media.

Now, regularly till May 16, when the results of the General Elections 2014 are announced, and intermittently after that, every possible aspect of Varanasi that can hit the viewers’ sentiments to score weightage and rating points, would be skimmed again and again, from every possible angle, to keep the storyboards and frames populated.

So, what are the elements going to attract (and are attracting) the maximum attention?

AFTER CRIMEA HAS FALLEN..

After Crimea has fallen: why Crimea and what next for Putin? – One of the most discussed issues of the global geopolitics these days – haunting the world leaders led by Barack Obama - and the analysts and experts!

While President Obama insisted again on Tuesday that the West would not recognize the annexation of Crimea, officials in the United States and Europe have privately concluded that Crimea is lost and that the real challenge is stopping Russia from further destabilizing Ukraine. – The New York Time, March 25, 2014

The global news media is full of such reports and analyses on the issue.

And every one realises the futility of the global response in the matter with ineffective steps like ‘kicking’ Russia out of the G8.

There has not been consensus on what should be the course of action. A military action was talked just in coded words, an option that never existed.

THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (4)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (9)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (3)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (8)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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ARVIND KEJRIWAL IN VARANASI: WORN-OUT NEWS, ISN’T IT? SO, WHAT’S NEW CROPPING UP?

GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014

Arvind Kejriwal is in Varanasi - worn-out news, isn’t it?

Let’s see what other interesting stuff he succeeds in creating to remain in news during his days of campaigning in the city the spirit, the flow of which is entirely different from the type of politics Kejriwal has been doing since December 8, 2013 when his Aam Aadmi Party delivered an unexpected performance in the Delhi assembly polls.

Arvind Kejriwal began his initiation in the Temple Town with its temples, a move that every worn-out class of politician (Kejriwal is fighting against, to cleanse the System free of them) aspiring to eke out a political career from Varanasi does.

He took a dip in the Ganga. He visited the temples of Kashi Vishwanath and Kaal Bhairav to have blessings. So, he tried to address the Hindu sentiments in the religious capital of Hinduism.

Now, the secularist in him needed to visit a Muslim religious place to balance the score as Muslims account for almost 17 percent of the vote share. But he fell short of planning here. He didn’t do it. (It tells he is not a fully worn-out politician yet).

THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (2)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (7)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (1)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (6)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

THE DAYBREAK AT THE DASHASHWAMEDH GHAT

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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BJP AND NARENDRA MODI ARE CIRCUMSTANTIAL CHOICES ONLY

GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014

Narendra Modi as the prime minister of the country and the BJP forming the next government are, at best, the choices forced by the political circumstances in the country.

Yes, they are not the ideal alternatives an informed Indian voter would like to look up to when he has a really different and worthy option to exercise his electoral rights. But that is not the case. Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party did raise some hopes but they look more as aberrations now.

BJP, Congress, SP, BSP, DMK, AIADMK, BJD, NCP, TDP, JDU and every other national and regional party is riddled with the common pseudo-democratic practices parasitic on the Indian democracy. Every political party has willingly contributed to the increasing political criminalization and a chronic political corruption.

But being a country run by a Constitution led governing apparatus involving elections to elect the governments at regular intervals, the voters do not have any other option but to vote to elect someone to run the country.

And this need to ‘elect someone’ pushes for the best possible alternative available from among the pool of the political parties in the fray that may not be even up to the mark when checked on the universal standards of political probity.

Also, this decision to ‘elect the best possible alternative’ is always not take rationally. The illogical but important factors of caste and community are always on play.

FROM THE GHAT-STEPS TO THE GHAT: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (2)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (5)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments. Come, and be enchanted. 

FROM THE GHAT-STEPS TO THE GHAT 

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

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JASWANT SINGH DIDN’T DESERVE THIS

GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014

It is not about Jaswant Singh being some saviour for the people of Barmer. It is also not about the Barmer Lok Sabha constituency being some hellhole for its people who are desperately looking for a saviour and Jaswant Singh can deliver for them.

Yes, being a career politician of the BJP with a respectable presence in the national politics, Jaswant Singh certainly did not deserve this treatment, especially when his demand was not something about withdrawing Narendra Modi’s prime-ministerial candidature, something that makes Narendra Modi insecure.

Jaswant Singh should win from Barmer as an independent candidate because it would tell the BJP and Narendra Modi and other politicians that there should be more to the outcome of the electoral process than to mere ‘winnability’ of the candidate. Jaswant Singh should win to tell the BJP that Narendra Modi was absolutely wrong here.

FROM THE GHAT-STEPS TO THE GHAT: THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA (1)

A MORNING WITH THE GANGA GETS YOUNGER (4)

PHOTOGRAPHY

A series of sequential photographs  of a Morning with the Ganga, travelling from the last phase of a night at the daybreak to the spring of the morning as it gets younger.. 

FROM THE GHAT-STEPS TO THE GHAT 

THE DAYSPRING LEADS TO THE GANGA

Varanasi is because the Ganga is.

The Ganga ghats in Varanasi are the lively ecosystems of human living where life is always in motion, full of vibrant shades defining the every moment of day in its inhabitant’s lives.

A morning with the Ganga is the quality time worth living every day and a memory worth revisiting every day.

Sharing the moments of a morning with the Mother River when a day steps from the slowing rhythm of the night to the energized urge of the daybreak to evolve into a fully blossomed morning - soft, caring and motivating – is an experience of the lifetime.

It is a story that can be told and retold every day. It is a story that remains forever young, with Mother Ganga, with the Ganga ghats, with its mysticism, with its spirituality, with its flow of being Banarasi, with people from every walk of life and with people who are an inseparable part of this ecosystem.

And it is equally riveting to capture the moments.

Come, and be enchanted. 

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©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/