Temple kabutar!
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Pigeons!
My ongoing obsession with pigeons. These come from the Harmandir Sahib complex. It was a hot afternoon and pigeons need to drink, too.
Tags: amritsar, golden temple, harmandir sahib, india, kabutar, photography, pigeon
Kabutar!
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Good luck birds
A flock of pigeons, fed often for good luck and other auspicious reasons, in Old Delhi.
Tags: delhi, india, kabutar, old delhi, photography, pigeon, religion
Kabutar! In silhouette…
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Lodi
On the dome of a Lodi Garden tomb.
Tags: delhi, india, kabutar, lodi, lodi gardens, photography, pigeon
The cloistered life of wealth
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Flight of the pigeons
An interior courtyard at the palace of Mariam-uz-Zamani, known today as Jodhabai, the Rajput princess who became wife to Mughal emporer Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, or Akbar the Great. Her palace today is a World Heritage site at Fatehpur Sikri near Agra.
Today, the warrens of Fatehpur and nearby Agra are tourist nightmares. They represent the ghoul that arises when Western wealth and gullibility meet Indian poverty and aggressive entrepreneurship. The touts, the scams, the hawkers as well as the ignorance and self-rigteous behavior (from both sides, mind you). Oy. There are few places in India I like less.
But inside Jodhabai’s haven — and similarly inside the Taj Mahal — one finds respite. Of course, behind the peaceful walls, I’m not unlike a member of the Mughal court of the 1500s, cloistered safely away from the poor, common folk hustling and bustling in the dirt outside.
Tags: agra, akbar, fatehpur sikri, history, india, jodhabai, kabutar, mughal, photography, pigeon, tourism, world heritage
Winged desert rats
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The one in the middle is clearly giving me the stink eye
In honor of my upcoming trip to the desert state of Rajasthan, here are 2004-era pigeons from a royal courtyard in Jaipur. Though we tend to think of pigeons as diseased garbage birds, in Islam (and even in some secular segments of India) they are respected or even lucky.
Tags: culture, desert, india, kabutar, photography, pigeon, rajasthan, religion, tourism, wildlife
