Discovery of India

“I tried to discover India . . . I made my mood receptive.” —Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India 

Category: Haridwar

  • No Glass Here

    This video covers a few minutes of our walk from our bus to the hotel in Haridwar, through the market that borders the River Ganges. Click on the title below left to open the video in a separate window. Through the bazaar

  • Aarti in the Rain

    This post goes with John Rudisill’s “Immersion in Ritual” above. Essentially, it is a narration to accompany the 5-minute video below (“Haridwar-Aarti”), taken in Haridwar on the late afternoon and evening of 19 May. One guide took us from our hotel in Haridwar to the ghat (landing) where we had reserved places. When we arrived…