My heart is torn between East and West. I live somewhere between the present and the past. I don't know who I am.
Flying Nun, Shatrunjaya hill, Palitana jain temple Gujarat, India
“This is a photo of a ‘Flying Nun,’ a Jain nun who climbs 3950 steps to the 1250 Jain temples atop Shetrunjaya Hill every day before dawn. After praying there, these (sometimes elderly) nuns practically fly back down the hill to the Gujarat plains, leaping gazelle-like past all the sore-kneed pilgrims and tourists”
By: Tonya Schwochert