Pictures of my quaint little town, taken with Nokia N-97 - 5 mpx and Nokia N-70 - 2 mpx mobile cam.
Karwar is the Head-Quarter of North Kanara district in Karnataka state, India, on the shores of the Arabian Sea. Surrounded by Western Ghat (mountains) on the East and South, the River Kali to the North, and the Arabian Sea, which comprises a chain of Islands.
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth.
The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery.
The second by commerce, which is generally cheating.
The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry." - Benjamin Franklin.
Just another foggy morning. .
Kids wait for the bus to school...
And a man goes for a stroll...
Life seems still on the surface...
Turbulence is casually masked.
Nothing has changed here...
And nothing is expected to change...
#kinner #Karwar
Peanut or Ground-nut is normally a 2nd Crop for te farmers in Karwar District. The sand-loamy soil which is water logged during the monsoons, yields a good salt-tolerant Paddy crop in October/November, and when the water dries up, its pefect for sowing the groundnut crop.
This crop does not need much irrigation, and it strives on the ground-water that is left over from the monsoons. The origins of Groundnut Cultivation is not known to the farmers. A Google search on the topic gave me this Info :-
History of the Groundnut Crop - "...... the Portuguese conquered Goa from Bijapur rulers in 1510. They had a flourishing trade with Vijayanagara, and to whom they supplied horses. Portuguese rule in Goa had far reaching effects. They introduced new floras like groundnut, chilly, tobacco etc., besides printing technology from the New World." -Source
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. It is a very old roofing method and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates. Thatch is still employed by builders in developing countries, usually with low-cost, local vegetation. By contrast in some developed countries it is now the choice of affluent people who desire a rustic look for their home or whom have purchased an originally thatched abode. Source - Wikipedia
Village houses may be artists' delight, and cement structures in villages may look like incongruous ugly dots in a picturesque landscape. But while urbanites may feel that village houses should retain their traditional appearance - and therefore be made of wood, stone, mud etc. - villagers themselves are quick to point to the irony in this: the well-meaning urbanites themselves have long ago abandoned traditional housing! Low cost, aesthetics, preserving traditions, and living in climatically suitable houses are all fine notions, but the durability of homes is also an important consideration. A mud house with a thatched roof needs continuous maintenance, whereas a brick and cement house is far sturdier, and has a longer life span. And villagers are as interested in the longevity of their homes as their urban counterparts.
These are the serene pictures of the Maadibag - Jariwada Hill. No one would guess what happened there a few months back... The beauty of the picture is deceptive...
As many as 20 people were feared buried alive when seven houses collapsed following landslide due to torrential rain in the Karwar District of Karnataka. Source
As many as 20 people were feared buried alive when seven houses collapsed following landslide due to torrential rains in the Karwar district of Karnataka. Rescue operations were continuing, but it was feared that all those, who were caught under, might have been died, due to suffocation. The rescue operation was hampered last night due to bad-light and heavy rain. In Karwar taluk, more than 200 houses had collapsed and 1000 residences were water-logged. Source
Chief Minister of Karnataka on Tuesday, visited Kadwad village where more than 20 people were killed in a landslide on Friday. Chief Minister of Karnataka on Tuesday, visited Kadwad village where more than 20 people were killed in a landslide on Friday. Later, talking to mediapersons at the site of the landslide, the Chief Minsiter said the Army, Navy, police, home guards are engaged in rescue operations. He said the government will give a compensation of Rs 1 lakh each, to the kin of the victims of the landslide. He promised that relief works for people affected by untimely rains would be taken up war footing. He promised the kin of those, who were buried alive in the land slide, that alternative arrangement for their living would be made. He said all the 60 families located beneath the hillock would caved in at Madibag, would be rehabilitated at a safer place. He had already directed the Deputy Commissioner to take steps in this regard. SourceSource
Although 400 people, including 50 soldiers of the Maratha Light Infantry, 50 navy personnel and 240 police personnel have been working round-the-clock with JCB machines to recover the bodies of 21 people who were buried alive in a landslide at Madibag, the task has become very difficult due to the mounds of slush covering the area to a depth of nearly 12 feet. The JCB machines could not be brought to the spot till Sunday since the road leading to Madibag was blocked following the landslide on both sides. Source
You've heard of the old saying let sleeping dogs lie, Which in another way put means leave old grudges die. Do not harbour old grudges for as long as you live, You may not forget but you sure can forgive........
Clicked this picture on a cool morning, just after sunrise, near the Kali Backwaters at Sunkeri-Kadwad, in Karwar. These dogs were content to lie there, without bothering about me, even when i stepped close to them to click this picture, and they continued to lie there.... These dogs look the same, maybe of the same mother....
Winter has come and the wind and the rain Wash over the house in the glen. It cradles itself as if it were cold For no one still lives within. The years have passed over it, leaving it aged And empty, and lost, without heart, With no one to live there, no one to care And the leaves are piled up on the hearth. If you stand in the doorway, you can feel Soft music that hangs in the air, Like the soul of the house that ever lives on Though there’s no longer any to hear. The door is now gone, the windows un-paned, The wood on the roof has gone slack. But it still lingers on, as if waiting for The people it loved to come back. The old house listens, and waits, and sings As the wind blows in through the door And the beat of the heart of the house still sounds Like the tread of their feet on the floor.
Tranquility Defined :-
Tranquility is an alert condition during which ones usual worries and anxieties no longer have control. This leads to a state of clarity in which insight occurs. In simple words, tranquility can be compared to the clearness of the water. It is not the stillness or movement, it is the clearness, that is tranquility. The tranquility of your mind can exist both in stillness and movement.
(Pic of the Kali River clicked at Karwar in Hankon Joog village)
Tranquility is the same thing as relaxation, because when you are tranquil you are relaxed.
Achieving Tranquility can be done by simply watching our breath. But the mind is not used to it and will be distracted the moment you start sitting in meditation watching your breath. The mind will try to unsettle you with anxious thoughts, tempt you with happy thought’s, if all else fails it will throw in a few exotic thoughts.
For example if you are a musician, your mind may distract you with the promise of new tunes. And if you are a painter it may suggest pictures to you. But you don’t have to worry that you will lose tracks of these creative insights, if you continue with your meditation. Each of these distractions arises and then passes away so they should simply be observed.
The Value Of Thinking Meditation is the friend of thought and shows that it is not thought that is wrong, but our uncontrolled way of thinking. Meditation helps us to make better use of our thinking, to become part of the clearness rather than the confusion.
The tranquility experienced in meditation will help your mind to become less cluttered and help in thinking more quickly and clearly; examine arguments more thoroughly; see through problems more readily and look at issues more objectively.
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Click here to view thumbnails for all participants This is the Last Photo for the January Theme - Best Photo of 2008. All through the month I have posted pictures of my town Karwar assuming that all are the Best ones that I clicked. I give no accolades to my photography skills, but the fact I know and have realised long back is that Karwar is a town with lot of Scenic places and opportunities for Landscape Photography. I have tried to make best of it, with my Nokia N-70 2 Meg Pix Mobile Camera. And I am constantly trying... to get the illusive one Best Photo...
Bad Roads, Lack of Public Transport, Tiled-Roof and Hay-Roofed Houses, paddy fields, and coconut and mango trees, make up the typical village scene. Here is a villager on his Bicycle...
This is what remains after the Harvesting Season. Paddy/Rice that was grown here has been harvested, and the Hay is stacked up in the field. Harvesting is done here by manual labour, and no machines are involved. Villagers take turns in working in each others' fields, thus making the entire Harvesting Process a Community work.
