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S'io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.

                                                  -- Dante

Firayalal's behind Albert Ekka Chowk, Ranchi    Ranchi Main Rd from Firayalal's   St Xaviers Doranda     St Xavier's College Ranchi    Birsa Munda Chowk, Hinoo, Ranchi    Top of Tagore Hill, Ranchi, where some of the Gitanjali was composed

 

Sports Day, St Xavier's Doranda, Ranchi, 1982, photo by Rajiv Pandey    ICSE 1983 Batch, St. Xavier's Doranda, Ranchi    H.M.B.P division of Heavy Engg. Corp., Dhurwa, Ranchi   Cranes built at H.E.C, Ranchi.    The Jagannath Temple, H.E.C., Ranchi, built ca. 1670.    Palace of the Maharaja of Ratu, Ranchi district.

 

Traditional Chhotanagpuri mask, Ranchi   Morabadi, Ranchi, way up towards Tagore Hill   Metallurgical and Engineering Consultants (MECON), Ranchi   Mecon cricket ground scoreboard, Ranchi.   Mecon colony, Ranchi   View of upper Dassam Falls, Ranchi.

 

Three of the famous Greater Ranchi waterfalls     Bungalow, McCluskieganj    McCluskieganj Station    Broad Gauge (Howrah) and Narrow Gauge (Lohardaga) trains outside Ranchi station   Jharkhand train     Temple Spires at Rajrappa near Ranchi

 

Santhal Madonna with pitcher    Village near Khunti    Women make plates and bowls from Sal leaves, Ranchi   Oraon village activist near Hazaribagh   Cheroot-smoker at Hazaribagh   Tribal men in regalia, Jharkhand (Ranchi).   Radha and Krishna, Ranchi

 

Getalsud Dam    Gossner Church   SE Railway Hotel, Station Rd., Ranchi   Kaveri Restaurent, Main Rd., Ranchi    Ranchi Lake, evening    Albert Ekka Chowk bedecked for Ramnavami

 

Bajrang-bali Ki Jai!    Ramkrishna Mission 'Divyayan' Ashram, Morabadi, Ranchi    Ranchi from Space!    Grounds of Don Bosco Ranchi    A jungle near Ranchi   Craftsmen, Ranchi

 

The Narrow Gauge train to Lohardaga leaves Ranchi    The Narrow Gauge engine gets loaded with coal    Natl. Instt. of Foundry Forge Tech. campus, Ranchi.    Ranchi Lake, dug out by the British Agent Onsley in 1842      

 

                  

 

 

 

 

IITK Academic Area at night     IITK : Yeh dekho CC ka Taj Mahal, system ko crash maarte dekho ... paisa phenko, tamasha dekho!    IITK Courts    IITK The Tenure Track at Faculty Building   IITK Library   IITK : The Gliding & Soaring Club

 

IITK Hall III    IITK : Tired revellers after Holi    IITK : Thanks to the A/C fountain, the Library is the coolest place to be during summer   IITK : (This is obviously not during summer)   IITK : View out over Panki from Hall III    IITK : The Water Tank, scene for many a tryst

 

IITK : The shopping center    ...and its main attraction, Red Rose, IITK     "Cawnpore" central railway station (cantt. side)    The A-Top Gang, 1989     The A-Top Gang in unfamiliar haunts    Chai at Nainital

 

Sarus crane pair, IITK    Library: Fount of Inspiration    In the gloaming

                

 

Aurora

Early Morning in Northern Light

Trees and Light

Abstract

Alexandria

Wild West

Sonoma

Ibiza Lanzarote

More Wild West

Golden Gate Bridge

SMB-Gallery-I

Death Valley

SFZoo042006

Montara

Whitewater Rafting American River Coloma

Shasta

West - Canyons

HMB & SF

China Aug 2006

Yellowstone & Salt Lake

Agra Oct 2006

Ranchi 2006