Month: December 2014

Are you all going to chicken out of the competition? I will give you a hint - food .... Let's have your entries please, and thanks to all for submitting theirs. Meanwhile here is a nice photo of me to be going on with.

Here is a dancing girl from the temple at Belur to satisfy any need you might have for dancing girls on New Year's Eve. Note that she is making music by clicking her toe ring with her big toe, and note, too, that she has a servant nearby to help her. Sue and I are… Continue reading Dancing girl by popular request →

Now that we have decent wifi, here is the long-awaited competition. A prize related to the contents of this competition (and there will be some runner up prizes) to the person with the most correct answers.

... But you will be glad to know I am only going to post one from Halebid and Belur - two extremely fine Jain temples (that didn't require climbing 700 steps) in Karnataka. To explain, I think this is one of the gods killing a demon and pulling out its entrails.... Maybe I should have… Continue reading 27,000 carvings on one building →

This doesn't quite do justice to our climb, but it gives you a sense ... And of course, we climbed all 700 steps barefoot. It was a wonderful Jain monument in Karnataka on an extremely high and very hard hill. See the second (or first, depending on your connection) photo for the statue!