News….
This month we are announcing the launch of "Wildscapes.net".
Wildscapes is a subset of our online club
Indianwildlifeclub.com .
Wildscapes.netis an online gallery of nature and wildlife photographs by committed photographers from India . These photographers have been showcasing their work at "Wildscapes"
the annual photo exhibition organized by IndianWildlifeClub.com at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi . New photographs / photographers are being added on a continuous basis.
Prints of the photographs, in various sizes, can be mailed to you for a small fee. We have also made provision for high-resolution images to be mailed to you in a CD / to be downloaded from a password protected site.
The images are searchable by key words. You can also search on multiple key words (advanced search). A list of key words is available to you. Simply mark the images you are interested in and add them to your light box (this will be retained
for 7 days should you wish to return to it). Then place your inquiry/order and complete the required details for online purchase through a secure payment gateway.
The soft launch of the site was done in May 2004 by Mr. D.P.S Sandhoo, Chief Public Relations Officer, Northern Railways, who took time off to visit the exhibition and also declare open the online portal "Wildscapes.net"
Views………..
" I have just returned from Himachal and was again astonished by the perfection of nature. Right along side the Beas river, a hot spring bubbled up from the ground and there were people bathing in that hot water. If you hike in the Himalayas , you'll see deep
cavernous caves that are cool in summer and warm in winter. They always contain small ash patches where some wandering shepherds took shelter and cooked food. And if you sit on a terraced hillside, the earth against your back will be perfectly contoured with
your body. And there are miles and miles of space with distant mountains and a blue sky with soaring eagles.
I am mentioning the wonders of nature because Vaastu Shastra itself believes that our homes should have the perfection of the human body, which is a marvel of nature itself. If Vaastu was only about North, South, East and West, it wouldn't
have survived for 4000 years. It survived because it saw the link between a human being, his house, and nature. It saw that a house was necessary to protect us from the extremes of nature, like storms, lightning, cold winds, and torrential rains. But it also
saw a danger of homes becoming fortress-like in the centuries to come. Which is why it emphasized the five elements of nature which Vaastu seeks to harness for human welfare. These elements are earth, wind, water, fire and space. And Vaastu stoked our awareness
of these elements by attributing directions to each.
So wind became represented by the North-West, water by the North -East, fire by the South-East and Earth by the South-West. Our wise ancestors engaged themselves in great introspection. By attributing four natural elements to four directions,
they hoped we'd build houses that would let nature in and not shut it out. ……….."
Jugal Kishor " A Window to nature", Times of India September 19, 2004