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… here is a chance to go back to my memories … my first work… my first “out of home state” travel… my first income… and this come all of a sudden, though i had been through lots of un-materialized plans to visit back to this magnificent historical city…

2 years back i went to hyderabad… it was a work-packed day for me … could not visit many places…just had a glimpse of charminar again … people were friendly … i wish they will still be …

… and now i’m fully excited to go there again … when i was there, i did not have any camera with me, and when i started photography, i could not go there for a shoot … and this is the opportunity to fulfill both … this is the opportunity to meet my old friends whom i left there while leaving hyderabad … this is also the opportunity to meet some of my new photographer friends whom i have never met earlier…

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taking my 13 months old daughter on shoulder and climbing up 250 steps approx was not easy job for sure … thanks to lonely planet … this time i was in full mood of traveling … so lonely planet found a place in my bag … pune for two weeks… that’s what was the official requirement … i was thinking something else …i was in favor of getting 3 weekends along with that … and before i could actually head to the office i headed out to karla cave … very near to pune, karla is actually a village by the side of highway … the bare hill can be seen from a long distance and preferably from the highway … this hill stands out amongst the other hills surrounding it … i was wondering how the hell, a bunch of early buddhist monks saw the hill, climbing up to the top and carved out the cave …believe me, it is the largest early buddhist chaitya completed around 80 BC … it is a beautiful cave of 40 mtrs long and 15 mtrs high … inside the cave, there is a stupa and even before entering inside , you can see monolithic elephants standing side by the entrance … most of them are destroyed now, but it is said, those had ivory tusks as well… next to this big hall, there are small rooms carved out the hill, one can get inside this dark 8×8 cellars and get a feel of the time … i had been to mahabalipuram earlier, saw arjuna’s penance, a beutifully hand carved piece of art of earlier agaes .. but i never had been to any cave earlier … it was a different feeling.. add to it, when i came to know that, this piece of work was done even before the birth of Jesus Christ ( counting of years ), i was so surprised… indian historical heritage is just countless … i felt, it was worth of climbing up to the top…

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