Is Shiva some person sitting somewhere ? No. Shiva is whole universe.

The track to Tungnath is silence itself. Even the stones seem to have soaked it over the centuries, and radiate a kind of calm. A lone tea shack courtesy a local resident serves as a travellers’ haven here. An occasional shepherd turned limejuice

Jagdamba temple is dedicated to Parvati, Shiva’s consort, the divine Mother. It was interesting to see an artist sketching the temple in pen and ink, with a notebook in his lap…

Even before the train pulled into Nashik Road railway station, I was smitten by the landscape of this grape valley in the Sahyadri range, in North Maharashtra. Hills encircling the city looked more like mammoth Shivalingams, set against the blue sky