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Looking up at the celining of the overhang/ upper level balcony of one of the historic buildings, we could barely make out ceiling paintings right up there. Without our guide we would have missed those ceiling paintings altogther. An early morning fog/ haze, coupled with angular early morning lighting reflecting on the lens resulted in a rather fuzzy image. Towards the end of Sikh rule, the population of Amritsar was larger than that of Lahore. Nearly one hundred thousand people lived within the walled city, coming from different races and religions. The most numerous were the Punjabis, Sikhs and Hindus and Muslims. 'Though the Hindus and Sikhs were the earlier settlers, the Muslims came to form a very considerable proportion of the total population of the city. The catholic outlook and attitude of the Sikh rulers would largely, though not wholly, account for this situation. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
while I sat in the car waiting for Gemma to buy milk, I took these photos of the local shopping parade
Our guide leads as we follow him into the grounds of Quila/ Katra Ahluwalia, now largely occupied by Marwari businessmen and loosely known as the Marwari quarter. (Marwaris are a business community hailing from the town of Marwar in Rajasthan in NW India). Not much of the original 'quila' or fort remains as most of the original buildings have been knocked down or re-modeled. What exists though are the shop houses making up the boundaries of the fort and a very pleasant central square (with a plinth of some sort) inside. (up ahead as we go in). (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
I was getting all misty eyed on seeing this exhaustive photography store in Amritsar's Hall Bazaar. Apart from selling camera gear, this store also offers photo and imaging services, including photo shoots on location for weddings, functions etc. In this day and age, a store like this appears to be as distant as dinosaurs! Imaging is a totally different kettle of fish nowadays and such large photography stores are quite rare to come by! (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
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Mick Miles in the family owned butchers. Mick's dad Richard took over the village shop two years ago.
Superb workmanship in the scores of wooden windows and balconies all around the Amritsar old city quarter. This is indeed testimony to the high standards of Sikh carpentry at the time. We are on our morning heritage walk around the old city. While pointing out these ancient architectural treasures, our guide was lamenting that these would face the demolition ball sooner or later as some of these old structures are really ancient and have become unstable. So maybe in another ten or so years, all this would disappear and we would have mundane box style brick and mortar buildings and total monotony.We did find at least one new building which had re-installed some of the wooden balconies (not sure if this was the one), so we only hope that this trend continues. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
I could not notice anyone else inside the store, and had thought that the person outside was the only one. But I was wrong- there was this gentleman working inside, polishing and finishing the artefacts which were to be put up for sale. I always ask before photographing anyone, and was particularly careful in Vietnam as many of the locals have superstitions about it. The man was OK with my photographing him, but was totally stone faced during the process. Language was a problem of course, but I tried to make some conversation to make him smile or at least change his expression, but no, he remained totally stone faced. I still thanked him after taking this picture, which he acknowledge with a faint nod to his head, but he refused to smile even then! (Hoi An, Central Vietnam, Nov. 2016)
We were fascinated with this historic looking sign on our walk down Amritsar's Hall Bazaar. Now that's a quaint looking sign! Looking at the style of lettering, the battered and well worn sign and the typical British spelling Punjabee instead of the more common Punjabi, our imaginations began to run wild. We thought of an underground resistance movement against the British (underground resistance with a prominent signboard? I feel sheepish now!), printing press set up by locals for anti-British propaganda etc. The fact that this establishment was closed only added to the fascination. Nothing of the sort. I could find nothing out of the ordinary about this establishment. It is merely a printing press offering general printing services of posters, calendars etc. to the general public. They have probably retained the original signboard from the days of the British, and the fact that the press was closed was probably due to the hour of the day- they had closed for the day and will re-open the following morning. (or was it Sunday- the weekend, when we spotted this- not too sure of that). (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
A close view of one of the carvings on the abandoned building which features Rajasthan style of building design and intricate carvings on the exterior. It was truly fascinating to note that the intricate carving is not on a single piece of stone, but on several bricks! Individual bricks are carved painstakingly and then meticulously put together to form a complete piece of carving which looks as though it was carved on a single block of stone! You can clearly see the individual bricks here,
especially in the lower part of the carving. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
The store assistant was inviting me into their store and workshop, and was generally quite inviting. My guide told him in Vietnamese that I was only taking pictures and was not likely to buy anything. Closer examination of the store revealed that this was actually a brass works of sorts, and all the goods sold here are made entirely of brass. I also observed that apart from prayer gongs, the store also sold all sorts of other prayer paraphernalia like incense burners, candle sticks, lamp stands and the like. (Hoi An, Central Vietnam, Nov. 2016)
Yet another architecture style in balconies- love the intricate work on those lintels above the windows. We are now on our Amritsar heritage walk down the narrow side streets and by-lanes of the Amritsar old city quarter. But for our guide we may have missed many of these architectural gems. All these gems are on the first floor balconies of the old structures. So one has to look up and around to spot them. As a lay person or tourist, most would simply walk on, looking straight ahead, (and dodging those crazy motor scooter riders zipping through the contested streets at full throttle, finger pressed firmly on the horn). Our guide was lamenting that most of these old structures appear rather decrepit- we were hoping, along with him, that they would be retained and not knocked down mercilessly in the name of redevelopment. (Amritsar, Punjab, northern India, Nov. 2017)
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