Spirit of India Contest

Indian Children Walking In a Lone Road With an Umbrella

Happy Indian Boy With Waterfall in Background

Indian Farmer Seiving Paddy By Traditional Methods

Aryan women dressed in their traditional attire as part of their culture.

Aryans

Devotees carrying fire pots from their home to the temple during the kulasai dasara festival

Devotion

The war memorial of the World War Martyrs

Salute to the World War Martyrs

A old priest doing the pooja for the badavilinga

Badavilinga Pooja

A bunch of tribal kids found social networking at its best

Social Networking at its best

Odissi Dance

The Vittal Birdev Annual Yatra (haldi festival), is celebrated at Pattan Kodoli village in Kolhapur. The festival is celebrated to offer prayers to the community diety of the shepherds, Shri Vittal Birdev, an incarnation of Lord Shiva. They consider that the festival and rituals would bring good fortune.

Colorful Face !!

Mylapore Car festival

Dolyatra a Hindu festival associated with the worship of RADHA and KRISHNA. Also known as dol, it is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the lunar month in the Bangla month of Falgun. Images of Radha and Krishna are seated on swings and sprinkled with a red powder known as avir. This is the signal for everyone to start sprinkling colour or avir on one another.
When the world is drenched with intense colour of humanity. Human race is united by the merriment of universal colours, no individual is elevated or distinguished by cast, creed, monitory status or any other demographics. The hand in the picture represents the very existence of unity through the colour of diversity. Like this festival of colour humanity has the strength of getting over any looming crisis in the world with absolute unity and endearing festivity.

Colour of Joy

Jallikattu

From the birth Indian are workers and specifically mother are  works hard to feed the children here the old lady is planting paddy crop in rain for our well being 
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Indian woman farmer planting paddy saplings as it rains heavily

Muslim devotees are observing Holy Ramadan Prayer in a Mosque outskirts of Kolkata after completing one month devotion and prayer

Eid Prayer

Colourful Hindu Gajan Dance

Local people at a Shilabati river in action when fishing during sunset.

Fisher Women Catching Fishes

Muslim prayer in sequence during Eid Ul Fitr Festival at Howrah, India.

Eid Mubarak

Shot was taken from Celebration of Holi in Nandgaon Temple, Mathura 2019. the outstretched arms of photographers on the edge of the crowd. It is a show of love, fun and equality.

Splash Of Colour

Colorful Street

This image was clicked during the Dusshera celebration in Tamil Nadu

The little goddess

The fire eater

There are Indian currencies before &  after independence...
1913 one rupee coin

"Old is Gold"

Spirt of India. We Indians believe in spirituality. In the frame we see a woman standing in the seashore for such a long time. she is so stable for my long exposure shot. he stable comes from the inner spirit which she has. she is the reflection of the SPIRIT OF INDIA.

Mukti

I never had a great opinion about Delhi. The traffic, pollution, amount of people could be some reasons. But one beautiful morning at the Humayun's tomb changed all that.

Humayun's Tomb, an epitome of Mughal architecture at sunrise

Palamedu  is famous for bull taming festival(Jallikattu) in Madurai, Tamilnadu.  The traditional Tamil adventure sport will be held in various parts of Tamil Nadu for almost a month.  Here the youthful and brave hearted tamers showcase their skills in taming the animal.    Its a feast to watch where its purely man vs animal.  Thousand of people gather here to watch this traditional Tamil festival which showcases the true spirit of Culture in Tamilnadu, India.

Panaromic view of Jallikattu festival 

Kanyakumari is named as "Virgin beauty" by Mahatma Gandhi.  Kanyakumari is a coastal town in the state of Tamil Nadu on India's southern tip.  The raw beauty of the architecture of the Tiruvalluvar statue is being emphasised with the slowshutter speed with the snowy water and a different perspective of the foreground.

Virgin Beauty

This 58 feet monolithic statue stands an example of our architectural marvel of India. This Bahubali statue is the world's largest standing monolithic statue showcasing the real strength  of culture and tradition.

The Real Bahubali

Kolhapur has a long history of kushti (wrestling) and has produced many noted wrestlers.
Families aspire to send their children to the akharas from an early age. Daily life at a akharas is based on egalitarianism, strict discipline, healthy diet, high morals and ethical living. When a pehelwan completes his akhara, it brings high social status for the entire family. Many families in Kolhapur have a history in wrestling and they want to continue the tradition, irrespective of the high cost and sacrifices made

Kusti in Kolhapur

Long exposure-Silhouette shot of Thiruvalluvar Statue and Vivekanandar rock during one fine morning.

Up above the wavy clouds

kulasekarapattinam dasara festival is a 10 day long festival that happens every year. At midnight Soorasamharam, which symbolises victory of good over evil, the highlight of the 10-day festival, was performed at Kulasekarapattinam beach.

Expression

Thrissur pooram

Under privileged kids playing on a rural village road without complaining of having  basic amenities

A devotee submerged into a trance mode and lits up an camphor in his tongue at kulasai thiruvizha

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