#uttar pradesh

[wgm-beautiful-world]

TAJ MAHAL PALACE

[sajra-savera]

" तुम्हारे लिए होगा घाटों का बनारस

सांड, सीडी और संन्यासो का बनारस

इश्क, मोहब्बत, फसानों का बनारस

गली से निकलता एक बनारस

और गली से निकलना पाए बनारस

ये बनारस, वो बनारस

अड गए तो ठाठ बनारस

नाव के नीचे प्यार बनारस

सुबह सवेर चाय बनारस

अल्हड़, पागल, मस्त बनारस

नशे में डूबा जाए बनारस

स्थिर, शांत और एकांत बनारस

शामो में लस्सी भांग बनारस

हाय बनारस, हाय बनारस

जो न आए पछताएं बनारस

हम तो खैर मुसाफिर है

अगर दिल की सुनते जाए बनारस

यही पूछे कब जाए बनारस "

बोलो...कब जाए बनारस?

[nando161mando]

"There is an eerie silence as one enters the lane leading up to Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal city. Just a day before, the area was in shambles as local Muslims, protesting against a court-ordered survey of the mosque and a Hindutva mob shouting genocidal slogans, were fired upon by the Uttar Pradesh Police, killing five people."

https://maktoobmedia.com/india/forced-to-mourn-in-silence-muslim-families-bury-sons-in-sambhal-as-situation-remains-tense/

[kaalbela]

Vrindavan, India.

Sam Dalrymple

[chaotic66hummingbird]

Nessa

[annagxx]

Mera shehar🤍

[mapsontheweb]

Countries with a smaller population than the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

by themapmaster

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

The Taj Mahal, 2004

Mickey Crisp

[famousinuniverse]

Varanasi,  Uttar Pradesh, India: Varanasi is a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh dating to the 11th century B.C. Regarded as the spiritual capital of India, the city draws Hindu pilgrims who bathe in the Ganges River’s sacred waters and perform funeral rites. Along the city's winding streets are some 2,000 temples, including Kashi Vishwanath, the “Golden Temple,” dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva

[wgm-beautiful-world]

TAJ MAHAL

[sudamaniparva]

i wasn't originally going to post about the indian elections (after tht ram mandir mess i'm trying to avoid that shit), but faizabad+ayodhya is too fucking funny not to post about.

gotta love how all of the ayodhya residents despite the insane bjp efforts to rebuild the ram mandir over a demolished mosque and run up their crazy nationalist agenda, went, "you bjp pricks are intolerable. goodbye." and fucking showed it.

good for you guys.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A baby macaque cuddles up to its mother on a foggy winter morning in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Photograph: Rajat Gupta/EPA

[inatungulates]

Western barasingha Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii

Observed by ygurjar, CC BY-NC

[molkolsdal]

Brothers Viraj and Siddhar Mohan celebrating their birthday in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, September 1987. As if to temper the dazzling firework of colours, India created pink, Indian pink. Towns painted entirely in pink – pink lotuses, pink syrups and the roses of Pushkar. India sears your eyelids and your throat.

Sabrina and Roland Michaud

[vintagepromotions]

Travel poster for Lucknow, India (c. 1930). Artwork by Dorothy Newsome,

[mneel]