For this week’s photo challenge – Delta, we are to share a picture that symbolizes transitions, change, and the passing of time.
What better than the first shower of monsoon – symbolizing the end of a blistering summer and the beginning another cycle of sweltering humidity 😀
Can you see the white longitudinal streaks? Did you think those to be marks on a dirty window pane? No! The window was wide open. Those are the thick ropes of rain – the first monsoon shower in Delhi. The gentleman in white seems to have been taken by surprise. Or perhaps he took advantage of his mom’s absence 😉 😀
monsoons
the trees emerge
squeaky clean
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At Mumbai’s swanky new airport
The lights were so bright and the floor so shiny, even the mirror image is pretty easy to read. Or is it?
Diamonds in the sky just the tiniest bit out of reach 😀
A cozy dinner for two. One of the rare occasions (in thirty years) where we had dinner all by ourselves (and emerged unscathed 😉
I know Cee said only man-made lights but I couldn’t resist this perfectly framed frilly sunset.
Baba Budha Jee, the first head priest of Harmandir Sahib, used to sit under this Ber (tree) about 125 years go and supervise the excavation of the Amrit Sarovar and construction of the Golden Temple. The tree is more than 500 years old. The lit up tower on the right looks remarkably like a face doesn’t it?
A view of the Golden Temple from the other side (previous photo). On the right is the queue for darshan at around 8 pm.
The entry gate for the queue
A closer look at the gorgeous chandelier
I used minimal color in this photo.
This is the sepia version. You can see the original photos of the Golden Temple 
After the massive and high rise buildings in the 
A deserted run down house in the suburbs of Kolkata
I was attempting to capture the view of Gangtok but the mist obstructed my view. But all I got was a makeshift school and an under construction building
A defunct lighthouse (alongside a hopefully working street lamp) in Puducherry
An outsider view of the Amer Fort, Jaipur – it was dusk and you will have to peer to make out anything 😀
Phew this is one is better – isnt it? It is the City Palace at Jaipur.
Tired from all that zipping around the country? Take a breather in this thatched shady place built just for this purpose. Although I have my doubts if it can be called a building 😉
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A 7th century cave dwelling built along side the more famous and one of world’s largest bas-relief monolith known as Arjuna’s Penance at Mammalapuram.
Just a little ahead, in Mammalapuram near the Bay of Bengal, is the Shore temple built with blocks of granite. It was built between 700–728 AD. It was barely dawn and apart from us, there was a group of boys who were busy clicking pics. But there was one who stayed away from the group despite their active efforts to make him join them. He preferred to sit alone and mope. Can you see him? Right in the center, sitting and brooding – I do hope he is fine now.
Matri Mandir or the meditation center at Auroville
The famous Hawa Mahal of Jaipur, the Pink City
Housing young bodies and nurturing budding minds – a school in Darjeeling
A side view of the Salar Jung Museum which houses the priceless sculptors like the 
Somewhere in Spain that’s all I can tell you for I flicked this impressive building from my worse half’s collection 😉 Time to move on from the pristine whites…
One of the many castles in Denmark. Despite the huge structure it’s the sculptor in the middle that invariably captures my attention. What about you?
Golconda fort near Hyderabad, which was in its hey days home to the Kohinoor diamond among others.
Outside the Lund University, Sweden built in 1425 is one of Europe’s oldest, largest and prestigious universities.
Aamchi Mumbai from the 33rd floor! Where lives are made (and destroyed) in the quest to touch the sky, become a star.
Yep that’s the Antilla home to Mukesh Ambani, the Indian business magnate worth $ 29 billion. The Antilla was built at a mere $ 1 billion has 27 stories but since ceiling are high it’s equivalent to a 40 story building. It has a multi-story garage with space to park 168 cars and three helipads, it’s another matter that permission for chopper landing hasn’t yet been received. Once the tallest in the region it is now overshadowed by a taller building in its backyard.
As if there aren’t enough buildings in Mumbai! The work continues into dusk and beyond – living up to its name of the city that never sleeps.
Just to reassure you that Mumbai is not just about heights but also has breadth, not much but nevertheless culled out some space to hang out – the Hanging Gardens.
A building facade at Malmo, Sweden – looks like a swanky office complex.
Muhammad Quli Qutb Shahi built the Charminar, the most famous monument and mosque of Hyderabad, in 1591 AD. It was built to celebrate the end of a deadly plague.
Sightseeing at Copenhagen – home or office?
This was once probably both home and workplace – an abandoned hut by the roadside
Royal Danish theater – the outside facade is so awe-inspiring, wonder how it would look from inside.
Old Ghoom Monastery, Darjeeling, India is the popular name of Yiga Choeling. The monastery belongs to the Gelukpa or the Yellow Hat sect and is famous for its 15 feet high special statue of the Maitreya Buddha. The famous Mongolian astrologer and monk Sokpo Sherab Gyatso established the external structure of the building in 1850.
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