The Hindu festival of love, color and spring is one of the most joyous celebrations of the year. It’s a time when people don simple, inexpensive clothes and take to the streets to drench each other in clouds of colored powder and buckets of water. There’s singing, dancing, and of course, food.

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the golden hour adds a serenity to this holy hindu town in India

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The Peacock Gate is one of the many beautiful doorways in the City Palace in Jaipur. Built in the 18th century for the Maharaja of Jaipur, the palace is still a royal residence today. In an inner courtyard called Pritam Niwas Chowk, there are four doorways in the walls. Each of these doors is unique in its design and decoration, and beautiful to behold. The four doors represent the seasons and different Hindu gods.The Peacock Gate is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and represents autumn.

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Architecture of ancient Somnathpura in Karnataka, India

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Puerta Sur Angkor Thom-Siem Reap-Camboya.

Angkor Thom está ubicada al lado del río Siem Reap y se halla fortificada por una muralla que, formando un rectángulo de 9 km2 (es decir 3 km por lado), se orienta hacia los puntos cardinales. Su nombre significa "Gran Ciudad" y se mantuvo como capital desde 1181 al menos hasta el siglo XVII.

La puerta sur de Angkor Thom es la puerta de entrada más frecuente al templo debido a su disposición ya que enlaza directamente con la carretera que vá a Angkor Wat.

La Puerta Sur está representada por 4 cabezas cada una en dirección a los 4 puntos cardinales representando a divinidades como Brahma (dios hindú), la cara del rey considerada otra divinidad también se encuentra representada en esta puerta al igual que Buda. En la parte inferior se pueden ver varias figuras de Erawan (elefante sagrado)

Todas las entradas son precedidas por un puente que cruza el canal que rodea la ciudad. Cada puente está custodiado por dos filas de figuras gigantes que empujan unas enormes nagas. A la izquierda los dioses y a la derecha los demonios luchando para crear el primigenio Mar de Leche.

Rishikesh, India

take a clay pot of flowers to the temple

the holy hindu lake of Pushkar . an oasis in the desert

hindu pilgrims at the holy lake of Pushkar

Bagmati river. Katmandú. Nepal.

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The temple at Neasden, North West London, UK. No cameras inside at all so I took this over an eight foot gate in live view with the screen turned to face down. Shame about the scaffolding.

Ganesha (Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa;), or Ganesh, also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.His image is found throughout India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bali (Indonesia) and Bangladesh and in countries with large ethnic Indian populations including Fiji, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago. Although he is known by many attributes, Ganesha's elephant head makes him easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the remover of obstacles, the patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom.

Pointillism style painting on A4 size paper card by Ganesh Kelagina Beedu Shenoy (me)

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As Thaipusam festival gets underway, devotees flood into the preparation site to have their bodies marked with holy ash to invoke the support of the Hindu gods. Energy is high and queues can be lengthly but in each line of people are individuals taking moments to reflect upon the elements of life that bring our communities together.

Chhath is an ancient Hindu festival historically native to the Indian subcontinent, more specifically, the Indian states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh,West Bengal, Jharkhand, and the Nepalese provinces of Madhesh and Lumbini. Prayers during Chhath puja are dedicated to the solar deity, Surya, to show gratitude and thankfulness for bestowing the bounties of life on earth and to request that certain wishes be granted.

Chhathi Maiya, the sixth form of Devi Prakriti and Lord Surya's sister is worshipped as the Goddess of the festival. It is celebrated six days after Deepavali, on the sixth day of the lunar month of Kartika (October–November) in the Hindu calendar Vikram Samvat. The rituals are observed over four days. They include holy bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water (vrata), standing in water, and offering prasad (prayer offerings) and arghya to the setting and rising sun. Some devotees also perform a prostration march as they head for the river banks.

This photo was taken in my village Simari in Madhubani district, Bihar. The puja was done in the village pond and the temple can be seen in the background.

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Kinetic Photograph made with one single long exposure shot. See more in: "The Best of Drawing with Light"

A Hindu temple in Mahwah, NJ.

Wishing light, love, health, happiness and prosperity to all of my Hindu and Sikh friends...

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BLUE FOR YOU - ME 2020 | Smile on Saturday

A young girl wears blue face paint to honour the Hindu deity Lord Shiva at a religious festival in Rajasthan, India

Bawaria Hindu Tribe is an ancient nomadic hunter tribe of Cholistan. They are son of the soil whose forefathers were primarily cultivators residing on the banks of the lost river Sarsvati. With the dried up of the river this area was deserted through desertification process and left only grazing land. Cholistan is a cradle of great Indus civilization and the Bawaria of Cholistan are representative of this civilization. Though nationalization has affected their culture. However, they are still staunch follower of their centuries old cultural traditions.

Tampak Siring - Holy Spring Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia

This detail was taken in Patan.

Patan, officially Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City, is one of the major cities of Nepal located in the south-central part of Kathmandu Valley. It is best known for its rich cultural heritage, particularly its tradition of arts and crafts.

I invite you to visit my last video of Lapland

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Os invito a visitar mi último video de Laponia

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This image was awarded as a Front Page of "Nepal: Look Back to Look Ahead" group in June'15.

Bharatanatyam classical dancers .

Diwali Festival of Light

Brisbane

In a South Asian neighborhood of Bangkok.

The Qutb complex is considered to be the first foundation of Delhi. On the ruins of Delhi's first mosque - built after the Muslim conquest of the city (around 1200).

The portico of the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque framing the courtyard consists of columns/pillars from destroyed Hindu and Jain temples.

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Der Qutb-Komplex wird als erste Stadtgründung Dehlis gezählt. Gelände auf den Ruinen der ersten – nach der muslimischen Eroberung der Stadt erbauten – Moschee Delhis (um 1200).

Der die Hoffläche rahmende Säulengang der Quwwat-ul-Islam-Moschee besteht aus Säulen/Pfeilern von zerstörten Hindu- und Jain-Tempeln.

Kathmandu, Nepal