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Por fin ha llegado. Aunque os parezca mentira no es invierno si no aparece la niebla. Si algún año no la tenemos, incluso la hechamos en falta. Forma tan parte de Lleida que se tendría que declarar "patrimonio de la humanidad". Tal y como dice moba (Montse Baiges) "bendita niebla!!!!!!
Y eso que podemos pasar semanas sin ver el Sol. Cuando no está, la quieres y cuanto está, terminas de la humedad hasta los huesos, perooo... forma parte de nosotros
Every Muslims known about this night so I just want to say !!!
Pls remember me & my family in yr prayers ,,,
Green and white not #pakistani flag, Green is portion of Teghafari,, whereas white is part of Minapin glacier...(august, 2014) — with Salman Baig.
Flickr meetup with Naveed Mughal and Faysal Baig....
Those moments are unforgettable and those smiles are countless.....those topics are debateable....that time cannot be back but the memories of non stop fun will last in our hearts forever.....
Have a great weekend you all
Dedicated to our friend Faysal Baig who is recently engaged. So congrats Fayasl because he is flying in the air.
Special thanks to Kuzeytac
Visited the place: 02-07-2017
Written by: Ali Usman Baig
Kot Ramdas is a small village, which is situated some three miles South of Nandipur. Outside Kot Ramdas in green fields a two story, square, British era building is standing. On first look building does not gave you any impression that this was an old Gurdawara. Locals told before 1947 Partition, KOT Ramdas was a Sikh populated Village. After, Pakistan came into being; no Sikh family left in Kot Ramdas as they migrated to India. From then, it was converted and used as a girl’s school. Few years back the top roof which was resting on wooden beams has been collapsed and also it created cracks on walls. The building is in no use now and in extreme critical condition and can be fallen down at anytime.
Nobody knows the exact history and year of construction of this Gurdwara. However, the building structural member’s configuration and construction material usage gives a rough idea that it must have been constructed in early years of Nineteenth Century.
The most interesting element of fascination in front elevation is the multifold arch entrance. Also, the arrangement of square windows and closed brick masonry arches in front elevation wall was magnificently designed.
In front of Gurdwara, we found remnant of brick masonry wall, which was used as a Sarovar in past. Sarovar/sacred pools are considered to have curative properties because of the continual prayers of Sikh scripture recited in the vicinity.
On backside, of this Gurdwara three well-constructed Smadi’s are present. Unfortunately, the inner walls which once painted with fresco art work are white washed. However, outer walls paint work is still in original colors up to some extent. On top of Smadi’s roof domes are present with equal partitioned lining and art work.
Well, constructed Smadi’s is a sign that Sikh’s living in KOT Ramdas village before 1947 partition must be wealthy and rich. There is also a fourth Smadi’s which is located at some distance from Gurdwara.
In one Smadi, you will found a grave, which is told to be of Muslim Saint. This Smadi was tried to be converted into a Tomb. However, Locals told that it was an illegal failed attempt to occupy the Gurdwara’s land.
In past there was also a well in vicinity, which was filled with time.
One more interesting thing is carved painting of peacock in backside boundary wall.
There is no research and writing specifically done on this Gurdwara. My purpose of visiting this place was to document this place before it got vanishes from eyes forever.
One last thing, which hurts me after visiting this place, was that, this building was used as a school for more than five decades. When I visit this place, there were children playing in vicinity of this gurduwara, most of them telling proudly their parents got education in this building in past. Now the building taking its last breathes, this building was their first institute of schooling, which is now turned into ruins.
Everybody have childhood memories, specifically associated with their schools. I don’t know how the old alumnus of this school feels, as their childhood memories turned into ruins and debris.
I wished they at least have taken some steps to preserve their school if not doing this for a Gurdwara building.
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Aiguamolls i Maresmes: : El Ter Vell, la Platera i la Gola del Ter
Per la maresma litoral ressuscitada fins a la Gola del Ter
La ruta per la maresma de la Pletera fins a la Gola del Ter, us proposa recórrer còmodament els espais d'interès ecològic del litoral del Baix Ter.
Us convida a conèixer les maresmes de la Pletera, havent revertit un procés urbanístic i recuperant l'espai amb l'ajut del Projecte Life Pletera (2014-2018), tan mediambiental com socialment.
Aquest itinerari ens portarà a conèixer la geologia, fauna i flora de racons com el Vell Ter (antic curs del riu Ter); les Closes de tamarius; les basses i llacunes de la maresma de la Pletera amb les dunes al costat de mar, i la Gola del Ter al final del recorregut.
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Maresmes de la Pletera/L'Estartit (Costa Brava) CAT.
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Natural spaces.
Aiguamolls and Maresmes: El Ter Vell, La Platera and Gola del Ter
By the resuscitated coastal marsh to the Gola del Ter
The route along the La Pletera marsh to the Gola del Ter, offers you a comfortable tour of the ecological interest areas of the Baix Ter coast.
It invites you to discover the marshes of La Pletera, having reversed an urban process and recovering the space with the help of the Life Pletera Project (2014-2018), both environmentally and socially.
This itinerary will take you to the geology, fauna and flora of places such as El Vell Ter (ancient course of the river Ter); the Closes of tamarius; the ponds and lagoons of the Pletera marsh with the dunes by the sea, and the Gola del Ter at the end of the route.
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Maresmes de la Pletera / L'Estartit (Costa Brava) CAT.
Tonight's Tune: "Mann Kuntu Maula - Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan"
The Dedication: I dedicate this shot to "Rabia J Baig" Thanks for all the appreciation :)
The Overview: Greeting people! My internet got screwed due to heavy rain that's why I couldn't comment on your wonderful streams and you people upload so much in a day ki sb ki stream pe jana bara mshkil hai jee =P, I'll try to catch up with you all. I wasn't feeling like uploading something minimally processed so here's yet another HDR for you all. The tune is one of my favorites, it's the kalaam of Hazrat Ameer Khusro, if you listen to the lyrics of this manqabat deeply, it has so much to understand. Give it a listen. Have a great week everyone.
Taken while walking from The Merlion (Marina Bay) to the Quays. Only had my 35mm f1.8 with me - so this was my first long exposure with a Prime Lens.
7 shots in portrait orientation, on a Novoflex 11 pano head and shot with Nikon D810 and AFS 24-70mm Nikkor lens, 0.9 soft grad and 6 stopper nd lee fliters. Taken near Dhail Baig beach isle of Lewis Herbredies Scottland
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Makli Necropolis (Urdu: مکلی کا شہرِ خموشاں; is one of the largest funerary sites in the world, spread over an area of 10 square kilometres near the city of Thatta, in the Pakistani province of Sindh. The site houses tombs built over the course of a 400 year period. Makli Necropolis features several large funerary monuments belonging to royalty, various Sufi saints, and esteemed scholars. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981 as an "outstanding testament" to Sindhi civilization between the 14th and 18th centuries.
The book says:
GAIENT BOT (GIANT BOT)
"Gous to rmis (goes to armies)
He can shut (he can shoot)
He can baig erithing ( he can break everything)"
*based on a drawing made by my son of Space Walk Man.
Gaient Bot
thrifted fabrics
recycled polyfill stuffing
original drawing by
five-year-old boy
The famous Sheesh Mahal is also called Palace of Mirrors and is located in the north-east corner of the Lahore fort (Shahi Qilla). This is the most beautiful palace in the Royal fort and is decorated with small mirrors of different colours set.
Sheesh Mahal was constructed by Shah Jahan in 1631. This is the luxurious place of resort particularly during summer months with rest rooms of a long hall at its either end, opening on to the brilliantly dazzling Veranda that looks at the marble paved quadrangle with a fountain in the middle side.
The mirror reflects the stars and the bedrooms presents, in its ceiling, the panorama of a star lit Sky. The exterior wall of the Sheesh Mahal presents the beautiful mosaic paintings that depict everyday sport of the Mughal princes for the enjoyment of the people who used to gather below the fort not only to have a view of the emperor sitting in the Jharokha, but also to admire the brilliance of colours on the wall.
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It was my first visit to Makli since 2008. I had been to Karachi a couple of times after that but never got the chance to visit this vast Necropolis. Thatta was always one of my favorite districts in Sindh and still is. It has some histroical sites such as the Mughal Mosque in Thatta city and Makli as well as huge wetlands such as Haleji and Kheenjar. There are lots of seepage zones and marshes which attracts a wide variety of wildlife too.
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Mirza Tughril Baig Tomb (c. 1680)
The canopied tomb of Mirza Tuhgril Baig is one of the last significant monuments at Makli, dating from the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb's era (r. 1658-1707). It was constructed on or about 1680 for Mirza Tughril Baig, a nobleman in Mughal service who rehabilitated the Kalan Kot fort immediately south of present-day Thatta [1]. According to Hasan, the fort was renamed in Tughril Baig's honor as 'Tughralabad,' but the name never took root, and the site is simply known today as 'The Great Fort' (i.e., Kalan Kot). Apart from these scant details, little is known about Mirza Tughril Baig's life or career. However, his name must have fallen into ill-repute in subsequent centuries, as the late-19th, early 20th-century historian Henry Cousens notes that "Small boys have been in the habit of throwing stones at this tomb by way of showing their displeasure at the occupant, and a great heap of stones was recently removed from it" (Cousens, p. 119)
Despite its late date, or perhaps because of it, the tomb exhibits many similarities with the surrounding monuments, largely constructed in Shah Jahan's era or earlier. For example, in keeping with the precedent of the nearby tombs of Mirza Isa Khan Tarkhan II, Jan Baba, and Mirza Jani Beg—all from the early-mid 17th century—the mihrab is placed on a freestanding wall west of the mausoleum [2]. Also, as at Mirza Khan Tarkhan's mausoleum, the column surfaces are covered with elaborate tracery and crowned by honeycomb-shaped muqarnas-style brackets. Finally, the tomb is organized as a pillared open-air hall topped with a dome, similar to Mirza Jan Baba's tomb (although the latter employs three domes, not one).
On the other hand, the architects employed a unique structural treatment to support the dome. Around the 5.0 x 5.0 meter platform, twelve columns frame a square enclosure housing the cenotaph. The overhead lintels form an octagon inset within a square, as the diagonals bypass the corner columns [3]. To achieve this, the eight columns supporting the dome have two parallel corbels at right angles and another angling forty-five degrees inward toward the nearest wall. Further overhead, the dome's drum is formed with sixteen low niches topped by intersecting arches [4]. Kamil Khan Mumtaz, the architectural historian, notes that the chevron motif seen here is a reproduction in stone of the tile design used at Diwan Shurfa Khan's mausoleum.
Another point of departure is that the dome is onion shaped, in alignment with contemporary Mughal tastes but at odds with the more classically-shaped domes of neighboring tombs. The dome undecorated apart from a rope-like girdle around its waist. The drum is partly obscured by a skirt of merlons extending from the parapet. Below them, the roof extends outward at a shallow angle, forming a narrow overhang that partially protects the column capitals from direct sunlight and inclement weather.
Notes:
[1] There is some disagreement around the date. Most sources give c. 1680 as the date of Mirza Tughril Khan's demise (e.g., Mumtaz notes 1679, while Nadiem provides 1683). However, in his Ph.D. dissertation, Qali remarks that the “footstone” inscription on the Chaukhandi (the enclosure) yields the date AH 1059 (1649 CE) in nastalique script, while the mosque has the date 1095 AH (1683 CE). The signpost on site also has the year 1649. Speculatively, one possibility is that the monument was constructed in stages or completed prior to the owner's death, which would not be unprecedented: the same was likely true of Mirza Isa Khan Tarkhan II's tomb.
[2] A point of departure are the slim minars or minaret-like towers projecting from the corners. To the modern eye, these resemble chimney pipes or smokestacks.
[3] Qazi notes that one of the lintels on the north side includes the Kalima Tayyaba from the Quran in Thuluth style.
[4] The intersecting arches over the niches are for decorative purposes only. The actual stones are laid out in an inward-sloping, overlapping pattern of blocks similar to how igloos are built. The upper portion of the dome appears to be a reconstruction as it is built of smaller low-quality bricks of irregular shape.
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Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical science artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
Whereas, Tragic from the lost historical architecture is a kind of heritage, which taking last breath’s of its being and about to be vanished from ground and eyes forever. The stories absorbed inside of glorious past from decades, centuries will be end with its loss.
I was wandering in outskirts of Daska in search of a pre-partition Gurdawara which is located in Fatah Bhinder village.
Fateh Bhinder is a small village of twenty, thirty houses. The two storey Gurdawara Building can be seen from a distance. It was constructed outside the village. The elevation of building is different from found other normally Gurdawara’s in Pakistani Punjab. The doors and windows are constructed of Colonial style buildings Pattern. The covered area of Gurdawara is around 4 kanal. The area is owned by Uqaf Department Punjab and they have given it on lease. Most of the villagers living in Fatehe bhinder were migrated from India after partition. So before partition it was a Sikh population village. Near Gurdawara there is Langer khana building (Place to feed Sikh Pilgrims) as well. There is no building of such stature exists in nearby villages.
Our historian Friend Mirza Safder Baig was also along us during exploration of this Gurdawara. He told that this Gurdwara is of Pehli Patshahi meaning the "Gurdwara of the first master”, visited by Guru Nanak Sahib during his life. Gurdwara Fatehe Bhinder Sahib has been built to preserve the memory of this visit of revered Guru.
The existing condition of Gurduwara is in very bad shape. After partition nobody has done any effort to preserve this historical building. Soon it will be all debris and the last symbol of great legacy of Sikh’s in Fatehe Bhinder will be tragically lost from history for ever.
Along her Brother Mirza Ali (Leader), Stelian Pavalache ( Film Maker and Photographer – Romania ), Tafat Shah, Yahya Baig, Salamat Khan and Arshad Karim.
Samina Khayal is dweller of Shimshal village, land of peerless mountaineers and well known HP's.
The project concept was made by Mirza Ali, founding President of Pakistan Youth Outreach, a youth mountaineering education, awareness and women adventure promotion program.
The project main objective was to make a documentary to promote women adventure in Pakistan, for that reason, Pakistan Youth Outreach and Satwa Guna Illusion of Forms Project (Stelian Pavalache), made a joint venture, to make the documentary about Shimshali people and first Pakistani girl to climb a 6400m, unclimbed peak in the shimshal karakorum.The peak has been renamed Samina Peak.