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Early morning scenes in #Goa. Those are likely the drums of #Shigmo beating in the background. And beyond the trees flows the #Tiracol.

Zoom in, zoom in, and marvel. It's a fungus not two inches wide, but the detail in there. Just wow!

Nature is reclaiming so many old Goan houses

Portals to magical places. In Quitula, Aldona, North Goa.

I made a thing, and I'd like very much for you to see it. It's a new website, designed and coded from scratch. Part work necessity, but mostly a labour of nerdy love and passion. www.thinvent.in

Viva São João

If there is an award for set design for concerts, then the team behind the Monte Music Festival truly deserves it. From between the artists, you can see the Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Up above you see the moon and what to me looks like Venus. Of course, much of the work was done 500 years ago. Goans knew fully well the scene they were creating from the Chapel of Our Lady of the Mount.

And this is what the dancers behold as they perform

दिल ढूंढता है
फिर वही
फुरसत के रात दिन

यह फूल मिला मुझे, पणजी में, मंडोवी के किनारे। तमाम मुश्किलों के बावजूद इसने जिंदा रहने की ज़िद की। जो मंहुसियत कभी अहमदाबाद में फैलाई गई थी, नदी के किनारे को concrete में ढलने की, वो अब गोवा में भी फैल रही है।

The kids threw me a surprise #birthday #party. I walked into the house to see this 😍

Then boys are ready for #Halloween at school. Guess who they are dressed as.

Oh #Goa, you #beauty. Water lilies in a #lily #pond. Don't miss all the froggies behind the lilies.

#waterlily #frog #jungledance

#Goa nights. Chaotic and fun.

This pair of Malabar Hornbills was way up in the trees, well hidden. And it was a cloudy morning. Hence I've had to do some post to bring out the details of the pics.

#birdsofindia #birds #Dandeli #Goa #nature #naturephotography

In January we went camping in Dandeli. There we met the Grey Malabar Hornbill, a.k.a. dhanesh, gobre vaayre or kaldal hakki.

#birds #goa #Dandeli #birdsofindia #nature #naturephotography

Yeh mile the hamein, kabhi. Abhi camera mein se nikala.

They're having a prom!

(No, they haven't finished school yet.)

Something about this gesture, of a senior student encouraging a junior through the finale performance of Imagine...

The big boy is in the red hat at the back

Somebody cleaned up nice today

More dancing at the annual day

La day annuel

An orange moon rises over a red tiled roof.

We leave you tonight, with what seems like the depiction of a tourist photographing a Goenkar who has had too much to drink and is now have a siesta on their Balcao. There can be nothing more Goan than this.

The dragon fellow was there too

There were entertainers of all hues

Groot was there, for some reason

Some scantily clad men were seen promoting the virtues of coconut oil. Women were having a field day photographing this guy's naked butt.

I really liked this float promoting vocational education at the school level

This Gomes is a goner. He had a Mardi Gra-esque party going on outside his bar, with drunk ladies attracting a lot of attention... till the cops got attracted too.

Some intense octopus sea life murder thing guy

So was the fresh produce guy

The junk food guy was there.

The random things that make a parade fun

Popularity is guaranteed if you're gonna chuck free onions and dried fish at people.

King Momo surrounded by beauties

And so begins the Goa Carnival 2023

There is a bird sitting on top of that tree. It's been there for a long time. I wonder if it is fishing, or just contemplating life.

#caboderama #goa #tree #sea #bird #nature

Fishing boats look rather romantic from a distance

#fishing #boat #sea #rocks #caboderama #goa #trees

The view from Cabo de Rama fort is something else.

#caboderama #cola #canacona #fort #goa #travel #sea

You ever think who's gonna sing us #rockandroll when all the older folks die? No, you only think about how boomers are ruining politics.

#arambol #goa #live #music #band

The new Zuari bridge. From far, far away.

Be like me and stop ironing your clothes. Nobody cares any more.

That's what big hearted artists do - promote upcoming artists in their shows.

Some tiny custard filled, sugar coated German delicacies were had. What the Americans might call donut holes - only slightly larger and much more delicious. Anybody know the name?

Sugar covered lips provided as evidence of too much happiness.

So glad that Dilshad called us over to the Goa Heritage Festival yesterday. The kids made friends with two kids from Sharada Mandir, who were raising funds for Mollem (for the environment).

I swear I'll get PTSD from listening to the trauma of ICSE kids all my life.

The kids were surprisingly chill and cool for someone who has studied at a Mandir all their life.

So heartening when others are more excited about your big day than you yourself are

Birthday morning began with bicycle ride around the new neighbourhood

Waiting for sunrise

Conversations at the beach

Colours

There's a halo around the moon tonight, if you look up at the sky. And the halo has a slight rainbow to it - reddish on the inside and blueish on the outside.

#Goa is so fabulously #green in the #rains. The phone camera just does not do justice in these low light conditions. The #paddy #fields have different #shades of green, in waves. Its breathtaking.

Did you wish the birthday boy today?

Can you see the clouds on the road?

Drove the kids' friends around. Now they're making a bonfire.

This gentleman owns a tools stall in Mapusa Municipal Market. Doesn't have a lot of stock like the big shops, but he had one each of every conceivable tool. A man's man.

We have a visitor

Looks like we are still decades away from artificial lenses accurately capturing the beauty of the night sea. Another half assed attempt at depicting the moon reflecting off the sea.

The moon and the earth, paint pictures for us

S discovers pressure washing, and is rather overjoyed.

(I had to eventually request her to give the machine some rest.)

Things you meet when out for a walk

You'd think the Goa life is all sun and sand. But I'm at the beach after 1.5 months.

I should do this more often. If only it weren't raining incessantly.

This is how smart boys go to school.

When we were young, sparrows would visit our home near Yusuf Sarai in Delhi. We'd have to rush and open the French windows of the house, and turn off the ceiling fans to protect them.

As we grew up, the birds around us seemed to have learnt to stay out of human homes. Until this month. Here in Goa, we have scaly-breasted munias visiting us sometimes. And, well, they're stupid. They keep fluttering against the fixed glass panes of the windows for an agonisingly long time, when there is an open window right underneath (see the pic for context).

I suppose the spotted munias forage in the paddy fields around our house. And visit us to snack on all the insects we harbour indoors. Perhaps I'll have the kids put stickers on all the fixed panes, to alert the birds.

(These social, communal birds are frequently caged. The pet trade calls them the Spice Finch. Its... so sad.)

Got fully vaccinated today.

What a lovely experience. The staff at the Government District Hospital in Mapusa were more organised and helpful than the fancy Medanta Team that gave me my first dose.

This is what freedom looks like. Kavin's cycle has finally arrived from Gurgaon, so I no longer have to ferry him to school on a scooter.

Winters... when the boys were learning salsa on the beach.

The rains are nice. But the winters are better.

There's only one word to describe the #EDM scene in #SF. Lame. People will head bang to anything here.
#Goa 🎸 🎶 🤘🏽