Farewell to Lord Ganesha

As the Ganesh Chaturthi festival comes to an end people come in hordes to bid farewell to their favorite god. In India we simply love all our festivals or let me put it this way that we just need a reason to celebrate!! With Ganesh Chaturthi our festive season starts and it comes to an end only with Christmas and New year. India has so many different religions and customs all living in peace & harmony it really makes me proud to be an born in this Great Nation.

Here are some pics of Ganesha from my neighboring area.

Skywatch Raigad

I had taken all these pics at Raigad, It was a small trek but i enjoyed it a lot.
I plan to put up more photos of Raigad in the coming week. Raigad was the main fort or headquarters of Shivaji the Great Maratha warrior.

The first rays of the morning sun appear on the horizon(enlarge and see the difference)

The view of the mountains, look at the snake like winding roads

Sun-rays are now showing up as we begin to ascend towards the fort

Now that day is bright we head towards the view point (takmak)

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Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

Starting today most parts of India celebrate the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi welcoming the elephant god - Ganesha. The festival will the be celebrated for the next 10 days.
These are the pics of the Ganesha that we have in our house, this is the 101st year that our family is celebrating this festival continuing the tradition started by our great grandfather.

I wish and pray that this festive season let Ganesha bring lots of Happiness, Peace and Joy in everyone's life.

Day @ Beach

It's monsoon here in Mumbai and I'm terribly missing the Sunshine and my good old cycling days at the beach.

This is what I miss!

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Sunset Times

Another wonderful Sunset that i was able to see at a beach close to my house.

Every dog has its beach!

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Global Vipassana Center

Since the past few days my thoughts have been wandering and sometimes to the extreme, at such times the one thing that i look forward to is "Peace". The learned one's say that Peace lies within and today I'm going to take you to a place which helps you in finding that inner peace.

The Global Vipassana Pagoda at Gorai, Mumbai

The magnificent pagoda stands tall at 320ft approximately

The dome is probably world's largest stone built dome

I've seen this structure so many times but it still amazes me every time

It's all a matter of Faith!

The Vipassana center offers various in-house meditation courses and as far as I know all of them are offered at free of cost.

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Was it the Doomsday?

There I was as usual enjoying my evening stroll on my bicycle and suddenly i see this big evil looking cloud, like a Monster spreading its claws.. I wondered "Was this the Doomsday?"

I realized that the roads were deserted

With fear in my eyes I went ahead to take a closer look..Yes it looked vicious

Before I could say anything the monster was all set to gobble up this tree

A crow nearby was watching everything as amazed as I was


I asked the Lord "Is this how everything is going to end?" and then...

Came this Ray of Light, Ray of Hope. Yes he was listening

There it was my beloved Sun, refusing to be conquered and telling me with a smile "Doomsday can wait". Satisfied with that assurance I returned back home

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