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Hideousness for beauty

06 Dec 2009

What many would consider a beautiful adornment for a camel, a flower stuck to his nose, I consider it hideous. Perhaps few lines by Anton Chekhov (considered a master in the world of literature as far as short stories are concerned) in “The Bet” (one of my all time favorite stories) explains this.

“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don’t want to understand you.”

Clicked at Chokhi Dhani at Jaipur, the expressionless, emotionless look caught my eye and my lens.

Tags: Animal, Camel, Chokhi Dhani, Jaipur, Rajasthan, wallpaper