TBI Photo Essay: Idar – God’s Own Art Gallery

At a time, when beautiful Natural Rock Formations around the country are being pulverised by greedy quarry owners, particularly in Andhra where they were once abundant, here is a story from Gujarat. Here, the Natural Rock Formations protect the villagers, and the villagers in turn protect the Rocks that protect them!

By Gangadharan Menon

October 18, 2012

Once you take his permission after appeasing him with a few biscuits, you proceed ahead. But soon you run into a sculpted dog, and you wonder whether it was a real dog once, frozen by some curse for dereliction of duty.

Though this exhibition was inaugurated many millennia ago, the work is still in progress. Not content with their current forms, God continues to work on them with his trusted artistic tools: the sun, the rain and the wind.

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