http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog Travel & Documentary Photography Musings Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:31:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/11/umeed/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/11/umeed/#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:51:21 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=163 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/11/umeed/feed/ 0 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/pattu-weaver-upper-manali/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/pattu-weaver-upper-manali/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:37:02 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=58 Pattu is the traditional dress of the local women. When compared to shawls, it is thicker and heavier and the colors used are fast and bright. This woolen fabric is woven in different colors (usually bright) and designs. A single piece of Pattu covers the whole body. A piece of cloth called gachchi (belt) is tied around the waist...]]> http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/pattu-weaver-upper-manali/feed/ 0 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:10:05 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=46 Thangkas were originally intended to serve as a record of, and guide for contemplative experience. They were intended to convey iconographic information in a pictorial manner. A text of the same meditation would supply similar details in written descriptive form. Here's a multimedia story on the making of these scrolls...]]> http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/thangka-buddhist-religious-scrolls/feed/ 2 http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/the-oldest-living-city-varanasi/ http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/the-oldest-living-city-varanasi/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:28:24 +0000 mohitg http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/?p=29 Nirvana (Liberation) is to die at Benaras. Death, which elsewhere is feared, here is welcomed as a long-expected guest. However strange, people travel from far way to spend their last days at this place and achieve something which is regarded as one of the most difficult of spiritual goals...]]> http://mohit-gupta.com/photoblog/2009/09/the-oldest-living-city-varanasi/feed/ 0