Saheb Ram Tudu

This santal lady is a school teacher in Mayurbhanj district, elder sister of Shakuntala Mandi.  She is very laborious and sweet . I made her sketch while she was having breakfast. first day when me and Bisva reached there , as a custom santal serve a pot filled with water. This show the respect towards the guest. According to the tribe custom every elder person among the guest will receive the water pot which we call it Lota dak , After that few drops of water we drop in the ground in the name of Marang Buru the  God of forest, Karam gosain ( goddess of wealth) and goddess of forest which we call her Jaher Era , the wife of forest God. In the evening we had mandi daka, which is really delicious with mango chatni. and chili namak. he had this food in shed. In summer its cool . we did not feel so much hot inside the shed. we joined the procession of guru gonke . they were celebrating  birthday of Gurugonke one of the most famous personality among santhals, they adore him like a go

Me and Bisva Bikash reached a forest village of manmohanpur, in Mayurbhanj district of Orissa, Its very beautiful hilly village, people even make houses by leaves and trunks in this 21century also. I was so surprise to see. They are so close to nature . Now they are also started making  concrete houses, they are also getting roads and health centers.

       Sometimes I feel I should write about my village, which is less beautiful then the where ever I visited in India. I saw richness of beauty, greenary spread all over the land, lots of historical monuments are there. but I donot know some how I like the village of Damodarpur. Palm tree date trees and other trees...  

        One of most famous pilgrim of India, where people gathered from all over the world. The home of lord Jagannath, Subhadra and Balbhadra . the temple is less decorated then the Mukteshwar and Konark temlpe. I was not believing that I am really going to visit this holy city within a minute and will change my life and view. the statue of god is amazing and beautiful, so simplified that normal and highly learned people can easily relate with them, he is god of all leaving being on earth. he feeds all the creatures and humans. the beauty of that temple is its campus and garbhagriha. Lots of people rolling in the stairs of Puri temple and shashtanga salute to the gods, both sides priests and sages are performing the rituals and pind dan. beggars are also there in the temples people are giving them money, rice and fruit and bhogs animals are also the very blessed creature at Puri ,when we both ,Biswa Bikash and me were there people were cleaning the road all over the Puri , each and

         This wonderful small or i can say miniature sculpture of Mahashveta is amazing. One hand is damaged , carved in red sandstone with intricated, decorated and compacte design, its attracte visitores. This temple has lots of small beautiful scupltures and Buddhist torana. Its seems me to that is made of fired red bricks and terracotta. you will forget all your sarrow and grief. In the back of this temple has a big fish tank.  Good time to visit this temple  is evening...  when you will see red orange sky with this warm red sculpted monument. you will feel that you are enjoying heavenlly fruit in this earth! 

A young devotee carying a pot at Puri Temle. I liked the dressing style, he was wearing white dhoti and had put another piece of cloth on his sholder . He was distributing prasad. 

In the south entrance I saw two war hosre, defeating  enemies and showing victory... 

              Last horse of chariot of Sun Temple, Its mad me very sad, when I saw this horse in its condition. I really wanted to see the seven horses of  the chariot but I found only one hosre on his complete condition another second horse's head only left and rest of them are vanished from the place. I donot know where they gone. Its like magic in 2006 seven hosres were pulling this huge temple with all their energy and courage now only one left. I wanted to visit Sun Temple much before in 2006 but I didnot get chance to go there but this time I think Lord Jagannath had heard my prayer and I felt that I am very lucky to visit that place.I thank him and my friend too. In 2006 from our art college students went for educational tour they shown me the images of konark that time it was something else and it is something different from erlier images because the time and nature had destroyed the beauty of the konark, the temple is made of red sand stone and the salty water grad