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The stones beneath me were cold from rain, but not unwelcoming. I had walked the length of the jetty slowly, as if each step might speak too loudly. But nothing spoke. Not the trees. Not the birds. Even the mist hung in stillness, as though it too were listening.

The nāga balustrades curled softly at the edge of vision—no longer fierce, only present. The lions, worn smooth by time and water, leaned toward the lake like monks bowing into prayer.

I placed the tripod low and stepped back. Not to frame a shot. But to let the scene open itself.

What unfolded was not a composition. It was a waiting. And within that waiting, something timeless pressed inward.

The shutter opened. Hours passed.

In the darkroom later, the negative seemed to emerge like a memory I hadn’t lived, only carried. And in the slow shaping of light and tone, the stillness returned. Not captured—received.


The lake does not ask
to be seen—only received.

Lions lean
into silence
as if remembering
the name of wind.

A palm
rises
without declaring anything.

And time—
time bows
without footsteps.


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