Discovery of India

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

Tag: rain

  • 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…