Rudabai - ni - Vav (Adalaj)

Adalaj-ni-Vav is one of the best step wells in Gujarat. It was built in 1499 by queen Ruda in the memory of Virsingh Vaghela. These stairs meet in the first storey underground in a huge square platform, which rests on 16 pillars. The walls of the well are richly carved. The sculptures range from a king seated on a stool under the parasol to the dancing girls.

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Photography By Suraj Vyas

Vohi Raftaar.......

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain

So true! But where is the courage to take the plunge into unknown? When I lay awake at night, I dream of so many things I want to do,so many places I want to travel to, but morning sunlight brings me back to reality. I realize that I am day-dreaming at night! Vohi Raftaar!

 

  
~ Photographed by
   Suraj Vyas

In The Name Of God....!!!!?????

The Ramnamis are a group of untouchables from central India. Banned from entering temples along with other Hindus, they deiced to tattoo God's name (Ram) all over their faces and bodies. A massage to say that they 'could have God with them too', and it angered the upper - castes who felt that they were polluting God's name with their untouchable bodies.

 ~ Photographed by Olivia Arthur