There would be many thousand of bass-relief works at Angkor. Large number of haute-reliefs and sculptures in-the-round, taking the beating of both weather and humans over these thousand years. But one thing stands out amidst all of this chaos. And that is Angkor Thom sculptures. Those of nearly six dozen huge, truly huge humans pulling …
Though it’s rather early in the day, yet a few thousand quietly await leisurely arrival of the early morning sun at Angkor, I was told of the scenario beforehand by my guide, the previous day. People jostle for the right spot and many set up their cameras not wanting to miss the first rays. I …
VIBGYOR at Angkor : Professor Hawking! it was Blue Read More »
Every time I pay a visit to Angkor, every time I leave some task incomplete. May be I am destined that way – so that I am able to find a plausible reason to visit Angkor, again. Angkor is all over me, my psyche. The more I think of Angkor, the more reassured in life …
Third Visit : Phnom Kulen, Butterflies and The Nandi Read More »
Passage into the unseen and mostly unknown depths of Angkor had just begun for me. Quite honestly, the only preparations I had made prior to landing at Siem Reap International Airport that evening was reading that you have to pay US$ 30 for a VOA and that I must carry a few Visa size recent photographs of mine. …
I knew my quest was still way short of complete; my thirst still unquenched. I had committed to myself that I must find answers to the questions churning my mind; and my soul. This could only be done through another visit. And if so needed yet another and yet more. Having acquired yet another and …
‘This is what I had all along been missing – Sarita. Gods like to live & play near Saritas. One has been used to this word which has no literal translation, substitute, purport or a synonym in any other language, perhaps. Sarita‘. I told that voice over the phone. Military service all over the Globe lends many …
The Lord Himself has to be the very first one here. Then his Holy Abode. Nearly a thousand pictures later, I feel at least some of them must be shared with all. Here I am with the bounty that is available, at least part of the same.
If the very thought Angkor was a Rhapsody, each Temple Complex will be a poem in itself. Each so different, yet so similar because each one is suffering the same fate. Read Shelley or Keats or the great India lover Rudyard Kipling or anyone else. The core idea remains the same – how to express …
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Though i had time on my side, but anxiety always denies one any luxury with the watch. Soon upon arriving at Suvarnabhumi, Bangkok, I hurried to the Cambodian Angkor Air desk. It was open since the next flight was just about two hours away. No other customer at the counter did sooth my anxiousness a little. …