Once Upon a Time in Kavalur

"The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope" - Henry Ward Beecher

Beauty is Skin Deep

Tinted Windowpane Abstract

Its a Small World

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain" - Henry David Thoreau

The Dancing Twins

A rare double rainbow over the observatory (It was one hell of a sight!!!!!)

The last light

Sunset over the sleepy woods

"Some artists transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun" - Pablo Picasso

Let there be light

Sunrise in all its glory at Kavalur


“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” - John Muir

The Song of Colour

"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener" - Arvo Part

Colours of Heaven

When the Gods smiled at Kavalur


"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray" - Lord Byron

If you rest, you rust

"Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves" - Owen Feltham

Teardrops

"Silent dew drops fall outside 
As I sit through the night;
And so do tears in my eyes
To hold which I can’t fight"

Skywatchers

The feather in the crown of IIA, the Vainu Bappu 2.34m telescope


"The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, or falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries" - Carl Sagan

Jewels of the Sky

A clear night sky at Kavalur

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people" - Carl Sagan

Green as They Come

"As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot"

Untarnishable

"The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like carpet. Thinking the price was plenty reasonable, she had an extra room of tile ordered for installation. When the bill arrived, it was staggering. She and her husband began a fight that continued all through the construction job. They ended up divorced, but not until she had broken every window and every tile" - Jim Harrison

The Indian

The lucky ant

“Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.” - Jack Handy

The beaten path

"He walked like he was afraid to leave behind footsteps. He moved as if not to stir the air around him" - The Kite Runner

Islands of Purple

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it" - Alice Walker

Hydrophobic but photogenic

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf" - Rabindranath Tagore

Mottled colours

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay"