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Tapovan: a thatched hut among coconut palms, drawn in ink, with the word तपोवन beneath.Tapovan
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The place, as it is.

Photographs of Tapovan from the air and from the lawn, through the monsoon and the dry months.

  1. Shanti Kutir from above — a long white hall with a blue-and-white striped barrel roof among palms, beside a green lawn with a fountain.
    Shanti Kutir, the hall kept for meditation.
  2. The campus from the air: red-tiled roofs, solar panels, the blue-striped dome of Shanti Kutir, mango orchards and ploughed fields reaching to the hills.
    The campus from above.
  3. A white water tower marked “Om Shanti” at the gate, with the striped dome, mango rows and a white building behind.
    The water tower at the gate.
  4. Rows of mango trees seen from above across green fields, with the long roof of the cowshed at the top left.
    Mango rows — the fruit farms.
  5. A plantation of young coconut palms seen from above, bright green fronds over grass, a narrow road behind.
    Young coconut palms.
  6. A herd of brown cows grazing on wet green grass around a round concrete water tank, white egrets among them and one person walking.
    The cowshed’s herd at the water tank, after rain.
  7. A newer white two-storey building among trees, seen from above, with farmland stretching to distant hills.
    A new building among the fields.
  8. The white building under grey monsoon clouds, a curved black road leading to it, green crops in front and a yellow digger at the door.
    Still growing — the new building in the monsoon.