The lighthouse

Lone guardian of the limitless ocean.
Helping sailors in navigation.

Away from  dangerous reefs and coastlines.
Towards safe harbour's confines.

The guiding light to the ships.
Braving endless journeys & trips.

Bellower of the mighty warning horns.
During treacherous, thunderous storms.

Protector of tired sailors' last hope.
Encouraging them to cope.

In the darkness of moonless nights.
With merciful bright lights.

Standing tall for centuries till now.
Withstanding nature's fury somehow.

Constant companion to loneliness of Moon.
Like a friend, a boon.

Witness to miracles of nature everyday.
 It was there, it is here, it will stay.

Lamp shade

Candles 3

Photo Credits Go To Amit Sharma

They are the ones which burn to illuminate others. Turning their own existence to ashes to show light to others. Suffering and enduring the heat to warm others. And while doing it, are at their most beautiful!

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Candles 2

Photography Credits Go To Amit Sharma

The city was Agra, the city of Taj Mahal and Agra Fort. The market was local market. Hawkers were selling and customers were buying things in a frenzy. The time was just before Diwali. Road side vendors had spread colored sheets of clothes on the roadside and on their stalls. They had stocked the stalls with colorful clay idols of Lord Ganesh and Goddess Laxmi. 

Clay sculptures were everywhere in vibrant colors. Birds, animals, Gods and Goddesses. Surprisingly, amongst all the Reverend sculptures were these beautiful village women! 

The women were adorned in multicolored contrast attire. No two sculptures looked alike and each one had a personality of her own.Their eyes telling a different story, their curves revealing different hands which must have shaped them. 

Each woman had an earthen pot over her head symbolizing the container for water. And a little child at their waist. Silver glitter sparkling in the afternoon Sun on their lehngas. Silver colored jewelry adorning their necks, ankles, waist and wrists. 

They were being sold in pairs as if the vendor didn’t want the ladies to leave his stall without a companion. They were irresistible. It seems, sometimes, the simplest of things in the most unexpected places can leave one long for them as if they were something extraordinarily valuable.
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Candle

The photograph is about illumination. Illumination, which can be achieved by a single or numerous candles. It can be done by electricity, by the Sun, the Moon. Illumination can be by the knowledge imparted by a teacher to his/her students. It is not just lighting up of an area or space, it is also about the light imparted to the minds and souls of people. 
It is about lighting up a person's existence and life. It is the act of getting illuminated or illuminating others and  being in a state of illumination. A mind which is illuminated by the light of knowledge and experience is the one which can illuminate a thousand other minds without ever striking a match.

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