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A Kutchi cattle herder, leading his bunch, is on his way back home after a hard day's work.

The hardy cattle found in those parts have some of the most extraordinary horns I've ever seen!

The source of all imagination is here in our fields, and Creation is beautiful enough for the furthest flights of the poets. What is called realism only falls far from these flights because it is too meticulously concerned with the detail of material; mere inventories of rocks are not poetry; but all the memories of crags and hills and meadows and woods and sky that lie in a sensitive spirit are materials for poetry, only waiting to be taken out, and to be laid before the eyes of such as care to perceive them

Lord Dunsany

In absolute fierce monsoon weather near Dudhsagar Falls on the Western Ghats, a gangman goes about his work.

Gangmen are responsible for making sure every clamp, every bolt on the Indian Railways network of tracks is perfect. They have a very thankless and lonely job.

This is entrance to the exquisitely carved and constructed Adalaj Vav or stepwell. Built by the Vaghela chief as a gift to his wife, Rudabai, the entire well is made out sandstone.

At Somnath, the sea is the same as elsewhere, but the mysteries it holds for grandson and grandpa are different.