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About the perfect confluence of zero in life's journeys around and about and deep within the mind. The amazing distances of space in eclectic and serendipitous discoveries, day after day, moment after moment.

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Birder, Birdwatcher, Teacher, Trainer. Serendipitous and eclectic vagrant traveler, on land, on the net and deep within the mind.
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zen zest - most favored moments

  • the sacred mountain pass behind the Malavli Fort - Dudhiware Khind near Lonavala, on the road to Pawana in Maval, Maharashtra
    There is a delightful motorable road behind Lonavala, after Walvan and Nangargaon towards the Pawana Dam. This road goes below the Mumbai P...
  • the inner path at the Arunachala Hill - the inner Girivalam route at Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu
    The path around the sacred Arunachala hill at Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu is considered to be one of the most coveted pilgrimage destinati...
  • the wainganga - the river that flows north at Markanda, Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra
    The Wainganga or Penganga River is famous for its locations being mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Books" as the domain...
  • medicinal plant parts being sold at Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga temple, Western Ghats, near Junnar, Pune District, Maharashtra
    The Bhimashankar temple on the Western Ghats is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga temples in India, on the pilgrimage path to Shiva. High up on...
  • Nilgai (Blue Bull) at the Khijadiya wetlands, near Jamnagar, Gujarat
    Nilgai male, at the Khijadiya wetlands, walking through swiftly - obviously has a dislike for birdwatchers at Jamnagar, Gujarat. This wa...
  • women grass-cutters near Karnaprayag, Uttarakhand
    From sometime in September 2009, on the road near Karnaprayag, in Uttarakhand. These are the lower Himalayas, and on the Char Dham route (...

zenwala's zen moments = 1-10

  • 01 women grass-cutters near Karnaprayag, Uttarakhand
  • 02 Nilgai (Blue Bull) at the Khijadiya wetlands, near Jamnagar, Gujarat
  • 03 Crown of Krishna - at Kalady, near Kochi, Kerala. "Krishna Kireetam"
  • 04 water tank at the Kibitsu shrine in Okayama prefecture, Japan
  • 05 monsoon darkness at noon in July - view from Nariman Point, Mumbai
  • 06 the wainganga - the river that flows north at Markanda, Gadchiroli
  • 07 girls fetching drinking water in arid and drought hit Solapur villages
  • 08 the inner path at the Arunachala Hill - the inner Girivalam route at Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu
  • 09 best paan ever - on friendship day - dry fruits, gulkand and rose petals with betel leaf
  • 10 a green river runs through my arid lands - possibly near Ghatigaon, south of Gwalior

zenwala's zen moments 11 to 20

  • 11 a true friendship between a crow and an elderly cobbler – near the General Post Office, Fort, Mumbai
  • 12 a rural hamlet, a lake and splendid countryside on a perfect day – somewhere near Chittoor on the highway towards Chennai, Tamil Nadu
  • 13 getting inside the tamarind tree and its canopy and locating the magical tamarind in an entirely different zone altogether – somewhere in Ponda, near Panaji, Goa
  • 14 medicinal plant parts being sold at Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga temple, Western Ghats, near Junnar, Pune District, Maharashtra
  • 15 Snow and rain proof multi-storeyed houses at Kharsali village, near Yamnotri, District Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
  • 16 the big banyan tree on the Bengaluru to Mysuru highway, Karnataka
  • 17 the sacred mountain pass behind the Malavli Fort - Dudhiware Khind near Lonavala, on the road to Pawana in Maval, Maharashtra
  • 18 this nation belongs to these school girls who keep walking daily in the Himalayas - near Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand
  • 19 the ritual of sipping tea early in the morning at Dwarka, Gujarat
  • 20 the center of the subcontinent - the confluence of the Indravati River and the Godavari River at Somnur, near Sirroncha, Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra

zenwala's zen moments 21 to 30

  • 21 gigantic urli in the temple courtyard of the elephant village at Punnathur Kotta, near Guruvayoor, Kerala
  • 22 ragi sevai upma with coconut milk veg stew - best of the best in my list - at home in Pune
  • 23 a perfectly clean tea stall at Mamaleshwar, near Omkareshwar on the Narmada River, Madhya Pradesh
  • 24 the clouds came to rest alongside the flowing alaknanda as dusk took over the valley - at Karnaprayag to Devprayag, Uttarakhand
  • 25 tired after a day-long pilgrim walk by hundreds of thousands of devotees, resting silently - at Velapur, Solapur District, Maharashtra
  • 26 the hidden Saraswati River at the Adi Badri temple, where the sage Veda Vyasa wrote the Srimad Bhagavatam - border of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh
  • 27 the paradox of development - bringing in water to a city with its own immense water catchment and watershed - at Thane, north of Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • 28 absolutely clean countryside, villages and towns - from Katunayake to Ratnapura - Sri Lanka, July 2011
  • 29 the lone elephant on the road near Ajnala, north of Amritsar, enroute to Ravi River, Punjab June 2010
  • 30 wild ferns and other small flora of the Shevaroy hills, Eastern Ghats at Yercaud, near Salem, Tamil Nadu - August 2016

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