Sunset Over Umiam Lake, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Sunset Over Umiam Lake, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Umiam Lake is a reservoir in the hills 15 km north of Shillong in the state of Meghalaya, India. It was created by damming the Umiam River in the early 1960s. It’s a great place for boating and other aquatic activities. We passed by the lake on our way to Shillong for an overnight stay.

Attraction To Colour Red, Lavra, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal

Attraction To Colour Red, Lavra, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal

The red flag was adopted in the 19th century as the banner of unions and workers’ movements. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, this flag was progressively adopted by unions, parties, and regimes that adhered to communism. Red became associated with the politically advanced and the revolutionary (through a kind of chromatic declension, Mitterrand’s French […]