Friday, 1 July 2011

Beautiful Shantiniketan




Flute Player in the train on way to Shantiniketan
Baul - Folk singer in the train on way to Shantiniketan
View of lush green landscape from the train


Mud House in a village of Shantiniketan
Tribal Village in Shantiniketan





Every Tribal House has terracotta murals on the walls


Get the most rustic experience

pots to store water


Homewards after a hard days work
Bengal's own Grand Canyon - Khoyai 
A snake-like path beside Khoyai

Baul - a folk singer and his musical instruments

From this broken house ....
The musician emerged

House of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen 
A handmade paper factory
handmade paper making in progress


Handmade paper
Rabindra Nath Tagore
Leather Batik 

Leather Batik making workshop


Press machine to creat patterns on leather

Pattern blocks
Making leather batik bags


Doing batik on fabric
Handlooms and thread spinning wheels 



Batik fabrics , a specialty of Shantiniketan 

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