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Golden Temple Express, somewhere between Delhi and Amritsar.

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:24:40 -0700

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Bharmour-03

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:38:58 -0700

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(slicha tilted. pliss to ignore)

Wikipedia tells me Bharmour was once called Brahmapura. Be that as it may, it is one of those tiny temple towns that punctuate the Indian landscape. A village on top of the hill in Himachal Pradesh's Chamba valley, it has (according to some) 7 ancient temples made of wood and stone.

When we went there, a fair was in progress. As is the case with most fairs in India, lots of colours, lot more sellers of fancy trinkets, and a whale of time.
Only, the road to Bharmour is scary.

Golden Temple, Amritsar.

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:46:43 -0700

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At night.
I attempted an HDR of the place. This is one of the 10 frames I shot.

Khalsa College-n

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:14:56 -0700

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Golden Temple Express, somewhere between Delhi and Amritsar.

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:19:50 -0700

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Daily Needs' kitchen

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:10:25 -0700

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Nav, Aarthy, Nav's dad and I had breakfast at a place called Daily Needs. Paranthas, kulchas, chole and taaaaasty, beeoooootfiful (yes, Beautiful) Lassi.

Daily Needs also stocked (and still does) great sweets. This is where they were prepared

Urvashi and, um, I forgot her name.

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:11:24 -0700

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Friends of Dibya (earlier photo) - were collecting timber in the forests of Khalatop. Wanted some of the water I had.

Dibya.

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:07:36 -0700

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She lived in the forests of Khalatop. She, and her friends, were thirsty. I had a large bottle of water. In very doubtful Hindi, they asked me if I could give them some water.

AmarJyothi

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:59:28 -0700

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At Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar.

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre - on April 13, 1919, British Indian Army soldiers under the command of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer opened fire on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children. The firing lasted about 10 minutes and 1650 rounds were fired, or 33 rounds per soldier. Official British Raj sources placed the fatalities at 379. According to private sources there were over 1000 deaths, with more than 2000 wounded.

On April 10, 1919, a protest was held at the residence of the Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar, a city in Punjab, a large province in the northwestern part of the then unpartitioned India. The demonstration was held to demand the release of two popular leaders of the Indian Independence Movement, Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew, who had been earlier arrested on account of their protests. The crowd was fired on by a military picket. The firing set off a chain of violence. Later in the day, several banks and other government buildings, including the Town Hall and the railway station were attacked and set on fire. The violence continued to escalate, culminating in the deaths of at least 5 Europeans, including government employees and civilians. There was retaliatory firing on the crowd from the military several times during the day, and between 8 and 20 people were killed.

On April 13, thousands of people gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh (garden) near the Golden Temple in Amritsar, on Baisakhi, both a harvest and the Sikh religious new year. It was in 1699 during this festival that the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa adding the name Singh or Kaur to every Sikh's name. For more than two hundred years, this annual festival had drawn thousands from all over India. People had travelled for days, before the ban on assembly.
A group of 90 Indian Army soldiers mostly comprised of Gurkha and Beluchi infantry regiment, marched to the park accompanied by two armoured cars. The vehicles were unable to enter the Bagh through the narrow entrance.

The Jallianwala Bagh was bounded on all sides by houses and buildings and had few narrow entrances, most of which were kept permanently locked. Since there was only one open exit, except for the one already blocked by the troops of Gurkha and Beluchi infantry regiment, people desperately tried to climb the walls of the park. Many jumped into a well inside the compound to escape from the bullets. A plaque in the monument says that 120 bodies were plucked out of the well.

As a result of the firing, hundreds of people were killed and thousands were injured. Official records put the figures at 379 killed (337 men, 41 boys and a six-week-old baby) and 200 injured, though the actual figure is hotly disputed to this day. The wounded could not be moved from where they had fallen, as a curfew had been declared.

-- From the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre)

The massacre at Jallianwala Bagh mostly went unnoticed in the world. But, in India, it was one of the main incidents in the struggle for independence.

When news of the massacre reached Rabindranath Tagore, he wrote a letter to teh Governor General rescinding his Knighthood and his title.

Moss

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:11:28 -0700

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In Dalhousie, on the 8/The Mall/Gandhi Chowk.

Khalatop-03

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:00:45 -0700

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The walking trail that leads to Khalatop.

Pine

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:06:12 -0700

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In Dalhousie, walking back from Khalatop

494

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:55:16 -0700

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It was a lot smaller in real life.
In Dalhousie, walking back from Khalatop.

Fences for neighbours

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:51:43 -0700

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In Dalhousie, walking back from Khalatop.

Kahjjiyar

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:49:25 -0700

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Would love to be in that house. Damn! Some people have all the luck in the world.

Bharmour-04

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:43:07 -0700

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m-dash

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:32:36 -0700

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Uh, geekery in title. Ignore safely.

Bharmour-08

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:26:31 -0700

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Golden Temple, Amritsar.

nobody@flickr.com (Ravages) — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:43:27 -0700

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