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2023 - The Year That Was

Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
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Sky Watch Friday - Skies over Mumbai


The Mumbai Skyline, over-set by monsoon clouds......



Walking along Marine Drive in the pouring rain brings back memories of my college days when I walked the path alone. So many years later, I walked the same path, this time with my husband and son! A memorable experience indeed!!!
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  1. BhushavaliAugust 5, 2011 at 12:17 PM

    Is Mumbai prepared for the rainy season????
    Celebrate Independance day in Fashionable Khadi

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  2. Anu ShankarAugust 5, 2011 at 2:57 PM

    Mumbai is never prepared for the rains! not even a couple of months after the rains begin! but rains are nevertheless one of the things I really love about Mumbai!

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  3. chitraAugust 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM

    Was it only cloudy or was it raining. ? Shot from a good angle.

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  4. Mridula DAugust 5, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    Is it still raining at Mumbai? Here it is so humid but no proper rains.

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  5. Anu ShankarAugust 5, 2011 at 4:00 PM

    When I took the pic, Chitra, it was just cloudy... the time I walked, it was raining too hard, so I left my camera behind! this pic was taken from a friends house which has one of the best views in bbay!!!

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  6. Anu ShankarAugust 5, 2011 at 4:01 PM

    Yes, Mridula, it is still raining, and I hope it continues for the next month or two!! if it rains through september, then usually the lakes are full enough to supply us with water through the year, if the authorities dont mess up, of course!!!

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  7. Indrani GhoseAugust 5, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    Grey over here too.

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  8. aartiAugust 6, 2011 at 1:02 AM

    Did it rain??? :) its raining here now[1am]
    btw, i totally love the new look here :)

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  9. AlAugust 6, 2011 at 6:56 AM

    That's a nice shot and so different from anything here. Where I live we get a "monsoon" too, as in seasonal moisture. But here the monsoon means that the clear morning skies will usually turn to a thunderstorm in the late afternoon.

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  10. Anu ShankarAugust 6, 2011 at 10:07 AM

    i seem to prefer it when its grey!!

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  11. Anu ShankarAugust 6, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    Oh yes, its been raining of and on since the last few days.... before that it was pouring! glad to hear of the rain there! and thanks! I was wondering if anyone had noticed!!

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  12. Anu ShankarAugust 6, 2011 at 10:10 AM

    Thanks! for us, monsoon usually means 4 months of rain, rain and nothing but rain. we wake up to cloudy skies, and sleep with cloudy skies... and the rain varies from drizzling to pouring!! of course, things are changing, the climate change is showing up now and then, but it still rains quite a bit, so we get to enjoy it for now!

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  13. Tatjana ParkachevaAugust 11, 2011 at 2:59 PM

    Nice shot.

    Regards!

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  14. Anu ShankarAugust 13, 2011 at 12:11 PM

    Thanks so much, Tatjana! Welcome here!

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