An Awareness Of Waiting

A fisherman waits for dusk.
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Picture taken in the Kerala Backwaters, Chellanam.

An Adieu

The twilight tryst:
The separation.

“I must climb alone, dear friend:
Yours is a different path to fly.”

The nervous embrace of new, and separate, adventures:
The wry acceptance of an awkward au revoir.
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Picture taken on the seafront, Fort Cochin.

The Twilight Zone

Coastal watchtower under construction.
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Picture taken at dusk in Fort Cochin.

Temple Twilight

“..your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams..”

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Our day began in Mysore.
Seductive mangos had waylaid us along the journey.
By lunchtime, Halebidu was being explored.
And now, at dusk, we were in another city and another temple.
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The Chennakesava temple of Belur was built by the same Hoysala kings who constructed the temples in Halebidu.

We arrived as the sun was starting to set.
The perfect time to sit peacefully and observe a temple, its artefacts and its people:

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Until finally we slipped away into the night.

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The Temple At Twilight

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In central and southern Kerala, non-Hindus are not allowed to enter Hindu temples .

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But we can glimpse their exotic beauty from the temple gates.

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