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“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
(From “Stray Birds” by Rabindranath Tagore)

This parrot came at sunset nearby a window of the remains of a madrasa in the Hauz Khas complex in Delhi...

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“When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine ”
(Alanis Morissette - Canadian and American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress, b.1974)

A few hours ago the sun was setting in the sky of Saket in Delhi and I took this simple picture with my new camera (Panasonic DMC-FZ200).
From the terrace where I was standing I could listen to the call to adhan (prayer) from the muezzin of a mosque nearby.
The sun couldn’t be more oriental and in some ways it became full of promise for someone who was sharing this moment with me and is expecting some good news in a few hours...

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“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.
Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft.
To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.”
(From “Wonders of the Universe” by Brian Cox)

This is a view of Gola Ghat reflecting in the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras) where beams of light keep up reminding “the Universe's distant past”...

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“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.
Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead.
Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
(From “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham, 1902–1986)

This is a view of Brahma Ghat reflecting in the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras), the eternal city from where no soul can really leave...

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How does a part of the world leave the world?
How can wetness leave water?

Do not try to put out a fire
by throwing on more fire.
Do not wash a wound with blood.

No matter how fast you run,
your shadow more than keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front.

Only full, overhead sun
diminishes your shadow.

But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest...”
(Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī known as Rumi - Persian poet and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)

This is a view of Trilochana Ghat and Gola ghat reflecting into the waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).

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