From the Himalaya: travels and tall tales. Personal interests: @malayraunsil
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Gwaldamに小規模なチベット仏教寺院があった。寺院の周辺にはチベット系と見られる複数の家族が居住しているようだ。寺院自体は古いものではなく、この地域とチベットとの交易と関係があるから不明であるが、居心地の良い場所だった。
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...Shot through by its sheen, your dark-blue body /
shines resplendent like Viṣṇu’s in his cowherd guise, /
lit up by iridescent peacock-plumes.
—Kalidāsa.
Meghadūtam (The Cloud Messenger), Stanza 15.
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'...and there he was gallantly, thoughtlessly alive, to all appearances indestructible solely by the virtue of his few years and of his unreflecting audacity...'
Joseph Conrad, 'Heart of Darkness'
Gorkha soldier with his khukuri. Photographer unknown. From craiglawrence[dot]co.
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A village elder lights up his chillum at Chaukori village, Kumaon. The snowy Panchachuli towers in the background. Photographed by Anup Sah, c. 1980s.
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Matte-painting backdrops depicting the Himalaya in Black Narcissus (1947). The film was shot entirely in the UK.
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"The world was new again. After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out and into the open, moist and yellow..."
—Salman Rushdie, 'Midnight's Children'.
Darma Valley, Kumaon Himalaya, India. Photographed by Bharat Bisht.
