DesiPundit

k0k s3n w4, a Malysian student in India, travels through Jodhpur and captures the city through his eyes.

This guy, Gawlani, owned a stall (which served rice, lentils and occasionally, omelette) and when the famous Lonely Planet guidebook accidentally renamed his business “The Omelette Shop” in its listing. And Boom. Suddenly, hundreds of backpackers flock to his stall daily demanding only greasy, egg-based snack food. So he scrapped his old menu and now, serves about a thousand eggs every single day. The heart-clogging omelettes are okay, but the irony that tourist guidebooks not only recommends popular places to eat - but also creates them - is really why you want to visit this little establishment for.

Gopal takes his camera down to Magadi Road and brings back an eyeful of the statues in the temple.

Nita takes pictures of Mumbai from the air.  What I like about them is that she explains what each place is. Very helpful for someone like me who is hopeless at correlating maps with the view while I am landing (Google  Satellite images notwithstanding).  Which road could that be, again?

This one was taken as we approached Vashi. You can see Vashi bridge on the right of the picture and I have drawn a red arrow to point out Vashi station.

Jai and Bee list this month’s CLICK winners. CLICK is a monthly food photography event; this month’s theme was “au naturel” - food in its natural state. Do check out the collection of wonderful photos.

A history-buff and a photography-enthusiast, Anoop explores the Somnathpur Keshava temple Nanjangud Nanjundeshwara temples near Mysore.

Tanay treks through Parambikulam wildlife sanctuary and comes back with fascinating pictures of the place and its resident creatures.

30 in 2005 takes us on a photographic tour of La Paz and its surroundings. You can see the changing face of the city - houses with courtyards giving way to high-rises, antique cars coexisting with compact hatchbacks..

A Game of Chance

[click on image to enlarge] Selected by Arun. Join the DesiPundit India thru Flickr group and submit your photos to the pool. The group now has 1,111 members.

Parmanu looks back at the past four months of 2008 in terms of personal journeys peppered with wonderful photographs that narrate a tale no words ever could have, complete with Bollywood, Saturday breakfasts, and snowy Easters.

Akshay visits Bylakuppe, the biggest Tibetan settlement outside Tibet.

The facade of Bylakuppe, brought three monumental chortens into view: symbols of the Nyingma Buddhist faith displaced from the trans-Himalayan highlands and planted here, among coconut groves and betelnut plantations. The settlement first took shape in 1959 when many tibetan refugees were given the opportunity to re-shape their lives and preserve their culture. This sleepy little town is deceptive for it is a home to twenty thousand tibetan and to eleven monasteries, making it undoubtedly the capital of Tibetan culture in exile.