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Photo Essay: Holi in Vrindavana
By Pavel Tomanec on 15 Aug 2009
This photo essay entitled 'Spring of Love' attempts to capture the festive celebration of Holi around the sacred Vrindavana area in India. Images by Pavel Tomanec (Paramdhamananda Dasa).
Submitted by Dina Dayal Dasa on 1 November, 2009 - 08:57.
Dear Param,
PAMHO, AGTSP... Hari bol prabhu. I hope you are getting lots of mercy from Guru and Gauranga. I loved your photo essay. I think you did a really good job of capturing "Holi in Vrindavana." I liked how you actually told a story in pictures, with a beginning middle and end. At the start there is a Hindi sign, indecipherable to the Westerner. Then you set the scene, an aerial shot of the houses, the wheat fields - we are obviously in a village located somewhere in an agricultural environment. Then there is the shot of the big yellow cloud of powder, lots of people involved in some sort of unusual festival. Everyone is participating, the children are broadly grinning, some of the older ladies are not so excited. Even the elephant is covered in dye. Towards the end we have the shots of the deities which tells us that it all can all be traced back to the spiritual world. The festival has primeval roots. There is a shot near the end of another sign "Shri Radha Krishna - Always remember " Aha! Wonderful... We have come full circle... Between the first sign and the last we have come to learn a lot about this mystical realm. It reminds of what T.S. Eliot once said, "we arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." Your servant, Dayal
Submitted by Peter Singer on 25 August, 2009 - 13:24.
Hello Pavel,
Wow, these pictures evoke many lost and found memories. I remember when I visited Vrindavan in the late 80' and through these photographs I felt transported in time and space. There is something unsaid in them too.
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Dear Param,
Dear Param,
PAMHO, AGTSP... Hari bol prabhu. I hope you are getting lots of mercy from Guru and Gauranga. I loved your photo essay. I think you did a really good job of capturing "Holi in Vrindavana." I liked how you actually told a story in pictures, with a beginning middle and end. At the start there is a Hindi sign, indecipherable to the Westerner. Then you set the scene, an aerial shot of the houses, the wheat fields - we are obviously in a village located somewhere in an agricultural environment. Then there is the shot of the big yellow cloud of powder, lots of people involved in some sort of unusual festival. Everyone is participating, the children are broadly grinning, some of the older ladies are not so excited. Even the elephant is covered in dye. Towards the end we have the shots of the deities which tells us that it all can all be traced back to the spiritual world. The festival has primeval roots. There is a shot near the end of another sign "Shri Radha Krishna - Always remember " Aha! Wonderful... We have come full circle... Between the first sign and the last we have come to learn a lot about this mystical realm. It reminds of what T.S. Eliot once said, "we arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." Your servant, Dayal
Hello Pavel, Wow, these
Hello Pavel,
Wow, these pictures evoke many lost and found memories. I remember when I visited Vrindavan in the late 80' and through these photographs I felt transported in time and space. There is something unsaid in them too.
Many thanks and keep up the good work.
Peter
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