White Desert Story - In search of Water...

“Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.” 
― Ovid, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters

White Desert Story - The Moonlit Night

White Desert Story

White Desert Story - The Man and his Animal

Coming back to White Desert or the great Rann of Kaachch is always an amazing experience.Within the vastness of the white waves of the salt desert makes one feel so lost within the heart of one's own loneliness.

A journey through the waves of one's very own existence and trying to become a part of the greatest stories of mankind and it's relationship with the Nature.

Equally an humbling experience to realise how the harshness and expanse of the Nature bestowing humans with a certain colour and life through its offering of its abundance. An unimaginable and unified relationship between the Nature, Man and Animals! 

But this time the great Rann had a great surprise waiting for me. Monsoon made its prehistoric form come alive. Instead of dry arid salt desert I could see the desert filled up with sea and making the salt desert come alive with its unique and exciting textures. 

And there I stand amidst the sea of salt waving to me and telling me the unheard stories from the ancient time. From the time when the great Rann was a part of the great Indian Ocean and helped the civilisation spruce up from no where! 

The Rann is out there and calling! Are you listening? 

The White Desert Story - The Widows

"There were celebrations everywhere. It was Janmashtami - the birth celebration of Lord Krishna. The entire village was celebrating and painted the whiteness of the desert with riots of colours and smiles. But she was unmoved.

She was so different in that landscape that her face bore a scratch in my otherwise happy heart. I felt, as if, she must be feeling bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while her heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.

Is she in search for her Krishna or lamenting the loss of him? '