कल्कि अवतार, विष्णु अवतार?
और कितनी प्रतीक्षा करवाओगे प्रभू🙏
Kalki Avatar of Lord Vishnu, 1780 Painting from Deccan prob Machlipatnam V&A

Neeraj ࿗ हिरण्या ࿗ 🙏
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ए री जाने न दूँगी,
मैं तो अपने रसिक को नैनों में रख लूँगि
पलकें मूँद मूँद
आली री, रोको ना कोई, करने दो मुझको मनमानी
आज मेरे घर आये वो प्रीतम जिनके लिये सब नगरी छानी
आज कोई बँधन ना भाये, आज है खुल खेलन की ठानी
चित्रलेखा
Darpana sundari Belur Chennakeshava Temple
Sculpture hoysala

Maharaja Sambhaji raje
Was tortured beyond words or imagination, killed by order of Aurangzeb at Tulapur on 11March 1689. when he refused to accept conditions of pardon.

April-May is time for harvest, post harvest such scene were visible all around, smell aura is still i cherish since childhood, we used to do such works in our village while on vacations खलिहान it's called by this de-husking is done wheat, gram & pulses
threshing paddy Painting

Mounted Arabs In Village? is title is correct?
street scene seems from Rajasthan, Jharokha Balcony where women seems to be chatting with horse rider?
Oil Painting by Alberto Pasini, 1878

Warli paintings
too depict daily village life & celebration of life. usual scenes of ritual dance is central aspect

During lockdown no one thought of cattle? early morning we used to take them out for grazing?

now atleast they can go & see beauty of nature around village
Krishna taking out cow herd, what he saying?
Painting from Sirmaur, 1780
Pahari?

pic from Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts

Girl standing in a veranda wearing a Pochampalli sari
painting by german painter Herman Linde, deccan-Hyderabad? Sotheby's lot106 late 19th C
Artists visited Nizam's palace.
Silk Sari with geometric patterns made in village of same name
girls at such young age made to wear it

Inhabitants from Village of Rania?
Delhi; 1815-1816
painting at David Collection from William Fraser albums

Amiban was his Indian wife

Fraser had very close relationship with native population & spoke their various languages

Reminds रनियां is a village in Kanpur too?

AGNSW collection
village dweller
but he may be a brahmin? or any sadhu-dweller to which lady is gifting something?
he is with slippers? she without any slippers?
company painting frm Tanjore(thanjavur) dress of lady not seems tamil? i doubt? she seems rich courtly lady?

most amazing sight is this stepwell from Andhra Pradesh
#water storage system in ancient India #chandrasekarapuram #village
shape is wonderfull #architecture
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Golden days, when charpai cots were collected from neighbours villagers relatives so that Barat or guests can be given comfortable stay, i remember putting marks on cots & noting names in notebook! it used to be collective responsibility to save name of village!
परस्पर सहयोग

toda lady, titled Toda woman in Nilgiri(es) hills of Tamil Nadu
i remember while visiting Ooty or Utakmand or Ootacamund on the hill tracks i saw village of Toda & their huts
Painting by Rao Bahadur M. V. Dhurandhar, 1928

#StreetsOfIndia offer glimpses of daily life of habitations be it city of village or kasba. bustling with #Economic activities. for some they are livelihood support for few luxury? eatery stalls offer best #streetfood of India, also it symbolizes cohabitation coexistence
#Bikaner

Amazing technology that changed the world. 30 years back never thought global village will come in existence in form of #virtual world
Facebook
YouTube @Twitter Skype #SocialMedia #socialnetworkingsites
#advertisement via #print media

बैगन भर्ता
Saw this most popular traditional food dish, but wordings I thought could have different, Brinjal Chutney 'Village Style' could have been avoided. In South it's pachadi not chutney. What's cooking style of urban or city? Recipe?
Indian #cuisine #food

floating village? in Thailand. much of problems of housing & land requirement could be solved by promoting such living spaces, but technology innovation required. could also be used in promoting #ecotourism in protected areas

each #photo tells a story? guess?
hardship of village life?
#women #water weather
traditions society?
National Geographic
caption it?

Sakthibhadran शक्तिभद्रः Sanskrit writer, wrote Ascharyachoodamani आश्चर्यचूडामणि first Sanskrit drama from South India
might have born in village Kodumon in Adoor, Pathanamthitta, Kerala, between 7th & 11th centuries
malayalam translation by Vedashri Parakkode N. V. Nambiathiri.