This Is The Time

My father - My God My Father -  Lives  Ever He is short. He is stout. He is powerful. He is simple. He loves nice things of life. He adores his juniors. He often fights with high-ups for the sake of his protégées. He fights hierarchy; he gets transferred to ‘Agency Area’. He serves his department without prejudice. Most of his service has been in very backward regions.  Basically, he loves his birthplace, the Godavari Delta very much. He strives to get transferred to his native district all his working life. It never happens. But, he is never discouraged. He believes in the government sponsored education system so much that he admits me, his only son, a son he sired after an agonizingly long wait, in a newly conceived residential system of education ( a la gurukul), a model school, far away from home. By the time his son finishes the high school; he falls ill and becomes helpless. My father with his B.Ed Classmates He suffers from diabetes. The unde...

Today (the 6th day of first fortnight of Indian calendar month of Margasira) is celebrated as Subrahmanyeswara Sasti (Subbaraydi Shasti). Village folk give much importance to this snake-god. He is the second son of Lord Siva and Goddess Parvathi and brother of Vinayaka. Here are some photographs taken in a small village of West Godavari District showing to the scenes of a fair associated with this festival. The fair can go on from one day to nine days, depending upon the custom of the village. 2. Almost every village has a temple dedicated to Lord Subrahmanyeswara. During the festivities the temple is specially decorated. You can see here a welcome threshold. The fair constricts of several makeshift shops that sell various offering to the Lord, memorabilia, toys and eatables to visitors. Here you can a see one shop selling balloons and toys. The road that leads to the temple is decked up for the occasion. People for all walks of like make a beeline to the temp...

Here are some incredible photographs that give us a new insight into the happenings in our world during 20th century. Bruce Lee training with the legendary martial artist Ip Man, 1955. Capitol Building, home of the U.S. legislature during construction in the middle of the 19th century  Flight of the Wright brothers in Kittyhawk, 1903 Eiffel Tower under construction   Charlie Chaplin appears on a public street in New York, 1918 Titanic's giant propellers dwarf their creators, 1911 Survivors of the Titanic, April 1912 SS Soldiers in Germany Japan's fatal attack on Pearl Harbor, which put the U.S. deeper into World War II, December 1941 Hitler's bunker after the conquest of Berlin, 1945 Mobster Al Capone and his son at a baseball game