Winter Greetings from Hazaribagh Old Xaverian Association 1991 batch, Jharkhand 2015

Winter Christmas season celebration in Hazaribagh with family and friends

Hazaribagh Old Xaverian Association (HOXA) 1991 batch reunion at Ormanjhi, Ranchi

Winter - Christmas season celebration with friends and family in Hazaribagh

Traditional vanishing village mural tradition at Isco village in Hazaribagh

Winter harvest at Isco - presently a herd of 19 wild elephants are roaming in the area near Keredari and Barkagaon a few kms away

Winter murals in Hazaribagh countryside villages of Isco and Saheda, Dec.2014

 Natural earth colours - kali matti (black earth colour), dudhi matti (milk colour earth color), Pilla (yellow) and Lal (red) earth colours used for painting mud house walls by Tribals and Scheduled caste communities in Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand state in eastern India.

 Khovar (marriage art) painting- the Tradition of scratching the white Dudhi (milky white earth colour) with broken pieces of combs or bamboo strips or the four fingers after the mud house walls to reveal designs and patterns, exposing the black kali matti earth colour (manganese) Traditionally painted by women artists of Hazaribagh