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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.

pariah kite, busy preening itself, Royal Connaught Boat Club, bund garden, Pune, Maharashtra

Birding moment of the day - Pariah or Black Kite - preening busily. At the Bund Garden, Pune, Maharashtra. April 2015.

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the zenwala

shteller...: 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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