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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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My Photos in Print...

It has been a while since I saw my name in print.. which is why it is such a pleasure to see it once again... not at the bottom of an article this time, but on a photograph! A few of my photographs were recently published in YouthInc Magazine, and I just got my copy. The photos are of the Joshi Museum of Miniature Railways at Pune, and though the photos are small, considering that they were clicked with a non professional camera, it is incredibly satisfying nevertheless!





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  1. MridulaOctober 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM

    Congratulations Anu! I am sure this will happen many more times!

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  2. Vishal RathodOctober 15, 2012 at 12:23 PM

    Congratulations on the Wonderful Achievement. As Mridula said above from my side also May this happen many more times. Keep Travelling , Keep Sharing.

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  3. IndraniOctober 15, 2012 at 12:32 PM

    Congrats Anu! Happy for you!

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  4. VidyaOctober 15, 2012 at 1:55 PM

    Congrats Anu!Wishes for more to come:-)

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  5. P.N. SubramanianOctober 15, 2012 at 3:14 PM

    Congratulations. I feel happy.

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  6. NishaOctober 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM

    Hearty congratulations, Anu!
    May many more come your way. So proud of you.

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  7. SudhageeOctober 15, 2012 at 4:34 PM

    Congratulations, Anu. And with wishes for more to come :-)

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  8. R Niranjan DasOctober 15, 2012 at 5:35 PM

    Congratulations Anu! Happy to see that.


    http://rajniranjandas.blogspot.in

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  9. chitraOctober 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM

    Wow...Congrats..Anu...

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  10. AnonymousOctober 16, 2012 at 9:18 AM

    congrats! one's noticed that there is always a certain consistency in the quality of your pics embellishing the posts and this prompts the query ( if it's ok to ask!)-which cellphone do you use? best wishes for continuing good work,thanks.srinivasan

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    1. Anuradha ShankarOctober 16, 2012 at 10:25 AM

      Thanks mama! ( I hope it is you who has left this comment )... i use my camera for most pics... the cellphone pics are few and its the same as the one kanthi uses

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  11. AswathiBabuOctober 16, 2012 at 1:26 PM

    Congrats anu...

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  12. Tarang SinhaOctober 16, 2012 at 7:31 PM

    Congratulations Anuradha! Nice pictures...:)

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  13. SoulSpaceOctober 16, 2012 at 10:31 PM

    super!!

    wish i could see all you have seen!!!!

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    1. Anuradha ShankarOctober 17, 2012 at 4:39 PM

      Thanks so much, Sowmya!!! the feeling is completely mutual :D

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