#maharashtra

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A trip down memory rain ♡

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India has a stunning variety of unique avian life. Wildlife SOS photographer Akash Dolas usually brings us breathtaking leopard rescue images, but he also sees the huge biodiversity of the Western Ghat mountains of Maharashtra near our Leopard Rescue Centre. Akash photographed the moment this paradise flycatcher took flight, with an intense stare and a whip of its exquisite tail feathers.

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" Kingfisher " //© Arun Kumar M

Special Guest : White Egret

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MAHARASHTRA

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Salota fort, Maharashtra, India,

@ archidit

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Marleshwar waterfall, Maharashtra, India: Marleshwar Waterfall is located in Marleshwar of Ratnagiri district… Marleshwar is a small Shiva temple in Sangameshwar subdivision of Ratnagiri district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It takes about one and a half hours to reach by road; visitors then climb 300–400 steps, which are lined with refreshment stalls to keep the climbing pilgrims refreshed. The temple is in a cave and has a small viewing platform from which the magnificent Dhareshwar Waterfalls can be admired. Wikipedia

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K House, Alibag, Raigad district of Maharashtra, India,

Atelier Design N Domain

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Fisherwomen of Udupi, India.

Indrajit Khambe

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If you were to ever dip into the book and pay close attention to the recipes — you’d realise that most of them do not need oil. Why is that? Because, Dalits could not afford oil, and that is why we have dishes such as the steamed mutke, which is made out of jowar, garlic and coriander. Instead of oil we used beef fat. Then, there is the famous Maharashtrian dish, the rich puran poli, but the Mangs used to substitute ghee with butter milk for obvious reasons. Reading about some of the other dishes in the book would amuse someone with a sense of irony. For instance, we have been having a sort of blood pudding for ages. Lakuti is essentially cow/buffalo/bullock blood that is generally infused with a fiery masala called yesur and then boiled. We have also been practising ‘nose to tail eating’ for years. In fact, fashi, a dish made out of the epiglottis of a cow/bullock has long been a delicacy among Dalits in Marathwada. I believe foraging is the new trend in the West, and there are restaurants that take great pride in having foraged food as part of their menu. But again, centuries of deprivation made expert foragers out of us — wild leafy vegetables, bee larvae and pumpkin leaves were for a long time a part of our diet.

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Gaur Bos gaurus

Observed by rrash, CC BY-NC

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chillin...

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KAILASA TEMPLE (Kailasha or Kailashanatha Temple) is the largest rock-cut Hindu temples at the Ellora Caves in Verul, Maharashtra, INDIA

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Air India Rd, Mumbai.

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joined in on the cultural miku trend on twt & made a marathi / maharashtrian version of her :] by zeniaerith

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•Indian Striped Hyena•

Scavenger from grasslands of Deccan Plateau, India