SOUL OF INDIA

Photos depicting THE INDIANNESS

Dear friends u can also add your collections here..

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Double Post.

Most of these pictures are incredible.

Just beautiful. Post more!

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election fever...


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Litting...



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Prayer

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Transportation... :)

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gandhian vs non-gandhian


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Sports...y dont they include these in olympics??

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Pollution vs Paradise

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Art..

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National animal and flag(girls)

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Patterns..

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All the pictures were great, my favourites were the Soul of India series. It was like each picture told a story. You truly captured the essence of India.
Thanks a lot. :)

Great pics, im a newbee but i think im gonna like this place... :)

Just Awesome !!! keep up the great work......

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Festivals

Holy
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Pongala (An offering by ladies at Attukal temple, Trivandrum, Kerala)

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Indian F1

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Drought and Flood - u can find the extreme face of nature's fury in India

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Jewels
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Young India realised !!!

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India's past logo in the west,

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the present new logo??

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Hey, thanks a million to all those who contributed...I just love this gallery
Here's a pic which is very sad, but unfortunately is also a very real dipiction of india..child labor

Please keep this thread alive by posting more!!

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Great pics!

Here are a few more...I took these snaps out of a video, so the quality is not as good..

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great pics!

Over 10,000 two-wheelers are sold in India everyday – an economical and efficient mode of transport. Entire families move around on motorbikes. Though its against the law, the police often ignore the two rider norm, since the mass transit infrastructure in the country is still way behind the country’s growing requirements.

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Young survivors of last year’s tsunami, play cricket near a broken fishing boat in Nagapattinam
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the pics in this threat are absolutely amazing. I just wanted to say thanks to all the people who took the time to take these pics and post them for our pleasure.

Makes me wish i could leave LA and travel around India.

seth

Brutal police action

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An enthralled audience watches as a circus performer rides a motorcycle on the walls of the well of death.

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how many of them have seen this type of local circus.

A newly-wed writes her wish on a piece of paper to be tied on a (holy?)tree outside the temple. Not only newly wed, even those without child for a long time offer such prayer believing that the divine power of the tree would help them to conceive.

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Great Job, from the pics, We can understand India !

Newborn babies at a government hospital in Agartala. India has the world’s second largest population with over one billion plus people. The world’s population is estimated at 6.5 billion, which means that one of every six human beings is an Indian.

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look at the sixth baby from front, its happily posing for the camera.

Apart from many languages, cultures and religions, India has many races as well quilted together to make India.

Apart from the Aryans, Dravidians & Mangloids ; Negroidal race are also found in the Andaman&Nicobar islands of India.

The tribals living here came in first direct contact with the rest of the world when the British occupied the islands in late 19th Century.

The Negrito tribe living in the Andamans are perhaps the most ancient race on the earth. Some of their behaviour resemble those practised in the Stone Age.

The Sentinelese are the most isolated community in the world, while the Great Andamanese tribe is perhaps the smallest community in the world.

The Onges are said to be the happiest looking people of the world and the Jarawas are known for their unpredictable nature.

Efforts to make contact with the Jarawas have been futile. They are very shy people and have stayed away from settlers on the island.


In the Great Nicobar Island are the Shompens. They live a semi-nomadic and primitive life. They camp in difficult and remote terrain on the island, making it difficult to contact them.

The latest Census report says there are 266 to 270 Jarawas, 98to 100 Onges, 150 to 200 Shompen, 200 to 250 Sentinelese, 20,000 Nicobarese and only 40to 45 Great Andamanese.

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Indian scientists said DNA evidence suggested they were direct descendants of man’s earliest ancestors, who migrated from Africa 65,000 to 70,000 years ago, only to be stranded on the islands by rising seawater.

The Onges are said to be the happiest looking people of the world

lol, interesting stuff...I heard there is also a tribe called 'Hulchul', I heard it during the Tsunami episode...that when an indian helicopter flew over the island to check how many casualties were there, they shot arrows at the helicopter!!
hehe..hulchul..

A traffic jam due to road blockage by political party workers

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excellent thread Anniyan.....too bad I did not notice this thread all these days...

It brings out the uncensored depiction of Indian lifestyle.......these pics bring out the genuine aesthetic sense of life and the true liveliness in India.

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Off to school in Leh, Ladakh


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School children look out of a car window after taking part in a play enacting the life of Lord Krishna during Janamashtami(Krishna Jayanthi) celebrations.

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Great Stuff Anniyan, You have a wonderful Artistic Sense....to appreciate Beauty and Nature.....

Where are the pictures ???

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Somebody needs some lessons.

Young India realised !!!

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ingenuity!!!
bhaesh!!

Images from the great Kolkata Book Fair. The main theme for this years event is Spain.

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Nice pictures Anniyan. Is post #58 Lucknow by any chance?

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AWesome pic....truly a soul of India...made me moved
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fantastic pictures :D
I really enjoyed them :)

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Oh my god!, these are priceless! This thread and the Incredible India one are insane!

Stardust
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Jampore Beach, Daman
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Carnival, Goa (Feb 2006)
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Going Bananas!
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Kerala backwaters
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Offering prayers in different parts of the country in their own way.



A Kashmiri woman prays during a procession to celebrate the Festival of Lights in Aishmuqaam.
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A Sikh devotee takes a dip near the Amritsar Golden Temple, on the eve of Baisakhi.
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A Hindu devotee prays to a cow after taking a dip in the Ganges River in Allahabad.
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Loud speakers the weapon of politicians for reaching the masses in a democratic country. This loud speakers are carried by these people to some corner of the city and within short period it will be blared with promises made by the so called leaders. a common scene in India.

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Keep up the good work!

School chiildren in a Rajasthan village
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Flying High
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niice. my new wallpaper.

Trully Nice Pictures, Wonderful photography.......some more please.....

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A ferris wheel at a fair in Panchgani
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Lucknow - commute in rains!
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Our people

Rajasthan: Working hard - turing deserts into green
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Our Politicians

Hardly working? Popular politician and rail minister Laloo Prasad and his wife and ex-Chief Minister of Bihar, Rabri Devi, sit through the playing of the National Anthem.

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The future is in their hands

Rajasthan- Village kids having fun on the way back from school
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West Bengal - Girls in a village school

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speaking of cola, I just remembered a beautiful pepsi ad I saw a few years ago.

Its in black and white, and its this group of young kids playing cricket in a rural setting. All of them have a sachin paper mask on, and something happens in between and in the end Sachin da appears from one of the masks.

Set to beautiful music too.

Walking the village path
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Walking the ramp
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Homage to the Scooter

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Beating the summer heat


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Going to School
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Enjoying the sea and the sunset at Chennai
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Vodarevu, Andhra Pradesh coast

Two generations

1 - hard work today
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2 - hoping for a better tomorrow?
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Hello Delhi; Mumbai Special - newspaper circulation in India is seeing huge growth

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Hip n happenin Bombay - the city that never sleeps - a Page3 party in progress
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And far away - a more leisurely pace in Roorkee (Uttaranchal) as a family walks past the Roorkee canal

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Not sure why but I like Indian people (including some of my best friends here.)

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Wow lots of people on that scooter!

The women of India are very beautiful.

Chilling on Shimla's Mall (Road)
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Many of those women and men could be recruited easily by modeling agencies.

Scooter again!
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Villagers visiting Ajanta (a world heritage site) have a group photo taken
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Dancing away in Bangalore
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Navaratri Celebrations in Vadodara
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Slow march to a social revolution

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A small town near Chennai: Girl children in India have a rough time. Especially in rural areas and among the economically deprived sections of our society. Education and childhood enjoyment is considered a luxury for them. Such a heartening scene. Girls carrying books and walking to their school in a small town near Chennai. There were scores of them; coming from various hamlets nearby, trudging along rough pathways through barren fields, braving the hot summer sun; and some even on bare feet.

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Traditional Sports.

Bull fight
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Bull race
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Boat Race
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Classical Dance
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Rajasthani folk dance
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hi!! this might seem an odd request but i am desperately seeking photos of dance bars (even from the outside would be great) and country liquor stores, the slightly seedier alcohol selling joints - preferably in mumbai, but really anywhere in india at all . . i'm an indian trying to make a (positive) point and its incredibly hard finding pics online. . if you could pleease help me as soon as you can you would be saving my life thank you!!
by the way - beautiful beautiful work so far, makes me homesick for what i cant see for real

great posts........

I love this thread.

Nashik - Mahndra Scorpio factory
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Awesome pictures!!!

One India but two sides

The economic boom is bringing prosperity to many

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But many are being left behind

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Wonderful thread! I wonder how I missed it all this time. Thanks to the contributors.

Great pics Sun, but please allow me to say something about post 111 though.

I think its wrong to say that the kid sipping sugar cane on the sidewalk is left behind. I mean how do we quantify the economic boom? That city kids are becoming more western and wear better clothes, or the urban poor are earning more money to feed and clothe themselves?

One thing is for sure that all India will never be a homogenous society, and social inequalities will probably remain, despite our best efforts. Urban poor, those that come from the villages and those born in the city, will probably remain, and while they may not look like the richer, lighter kids, I am hoping their state is still improving by the day.

Maybe yesterday the kid did not have money to buy that stick of cane and today he does. :)

Well, the evidence suggests that the gap is widening. Not just because those at the bottom are not keeping up with the frenetic growth of those at the top of the income distribution (that is an unavoidable, if cruel, consequence of growth in a free market) but actually because those at the bottom are worse off than before. There is a real problem if the calorific intake has actually reduced in some regions in the last decade (i.e. people are eating less than before).

This boy's case may be different. These pictures may not reveal the full picture. But there is no point in brushing issues under the carpet. They need to be dealt with squarely. We need to generate growth and the growth must create jobs not just for the highly skilled (and the fact that it has is a good thing) but also for the semi-skilled and unskilled. That is an area where we have not quite failed uniformly (though the fact that calorific intake has declined in some regions of the country is a definite failure), but success has been below par for sure.

And all sides of India (I was about to write 'both sides' but that is too restrictive) constitute its soul. It may not be all pretty, but it is still beautiful. I hope the purpose of this forum is not to show only the pretty sides of the country and to become a mirror image of those sections of the Western media that are obsessed with showing its 'unpretty' sides.

I do see Kronik's point of view. And as Sridhar said - not everything is pretty about India (just as not everything is unpretty about India as portayed by many activists, media outlets, missionary units and foreign photographers on poverty pang trips).

Evening prayers at Varanasi
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Sun,
This is an amazing thread... :applause:

A very very common sight.... :)

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I took this while on the road in Rajasthan. I remember my mother and another were the only women to drive in our town (Erode, TN) 25 years ago; that had surprised many people back then. Its great to see Indian women's self sufficiency and freedom these days; still there is a long way to go!

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Working hard in a vegetable market in WB
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The glam world - the Kingfisher Swimsuit calendar launch
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Nation building brick by brick
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Ministers and political leaders travel in style, while the people they claim to serve are held up so that the 'great leaders of the masses' can pass by. This is somewhere in Karnataka but could in fact be anywhere in India.

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School over for the day!
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Fishermen, Kanyakumari
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Wagah
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Government Primary School, Sitla Village, Uttaranchal - 150 kids, 5 classes, 2 rooms, and only one overworked teacher

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The spirit of India's past and future in one pic:
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Fab and colorful pictures indeed.

love this thread.

Another attempt to revive this thread.....



Check this out...a photo compilation

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2929128763300394934&q=india+is%3Afree

There is nothing better than grabbing a quick bite to eat from the roadside vendor.

Photo by tracyhunter @ flickr

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Paan - enjoyed by millions

Photo by dovelet @ flickr

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Making parottas

Photo by eitani @ flickr

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Closing Ceremony - National Games 2007 , Guwahati

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very nice pictures, everyone.

Basic Mountaineering Course trainees near Dokrani Glacier in Uttarakhand
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Hey, thanks a million to all those who contributed...I just love this gallery
Here's a pic which is very sad, but unfortunately is also a very real dipiction of india..child labor

Please keep this thread alive by posting more!!

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a very beautiful picture which speaks volumes about the child and our country in his hands .....heart touching .........

Monsoon Fun - Mumbai


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Closing Ceremony - National Games 2007 , Guwahati

photo copyright gsonit

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Wow...shows how well sports could (or at least the opening and closing ceremonies) could bring people together! Awesome.

Monsoon Fun - Mumbai


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That's such a great picture

Kudos to the photographer

Evening prayers at Varanasi
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The ganga Aarti at Hridwar, Rishikesh and Varanasi are one of its kind..
One of the most beautiful sights..

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Alleppy - Chenganacherry Road during this mansoon.....


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Boat Race, Kerala

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:)

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:cheers:

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:cheers:

Whatever happended to this thread.

Janmasthami festivities - Dahi Handi in Mumbai

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Forestry workers look on as a male Royal Bengal Tiger leaps off a boat into the water after being released back into the wild in The Chamta Forest District of The Sunderbans.


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Hey, All these pics show the real essence of India. Great job done! Kudos to you :)

This is the best thread in the whole website. i come across tons of incredible pics of India very often. from now on i will post them here..

I checked all the pictures and that all are really very nice and India is great country and I like india too much all type of people and culture are in india.

Wonderful work Anniyan....great work...some of the most incredible pics

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Theyyam performance, Kannur District, Kerala, India

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@Anniyan - missing your stuff....come back.

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Howrah - kolkota - akhada (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51261518@N00/63495328/) by dvd_desouza (http://www.flickr.com/people/51261518@N00/), on Flickr

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Shinkari Melam - Kerala
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Fishermen along Chinese fishing net - Kochi
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Banana Chips
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Pulling the nets back
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The jumbo bath
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Dudhsagar Falls, falls is in the border of Karnataka and Goa


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Oh great.. an amazing stuff you have.. i like all image.:cheers1:

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Some time to live (http://www.flickr.com/photos/abhey_singh/7760432568/) by Abhey Singh (http://www.flickr.com/people/abhey_singh/), on Flickr