![]() ![]() While its effect is strong at any time of day, its gleaming form comes to life in the morning when the rising sun illuminates the polished surface and again at sunset, when the last rays from the west light up the “water”, which appears both fluid and solid at the same time.įield of Light (2024) | Bruce Munro | Freedom Plaza Photo: Serena Munro This is one of those new public artworks that really gets people to stop and to admire - and to think about what it represents. Although this work, part of the NYC Parks Department’s Art in the Parks series, is on view until August 2024, there is nothing ephemeral about the message it sends. A cascade of flowing “water” appears to be cresting mid air, one of the several works in the Chinese artist’s “Water in Dripping” series, each meant to highlight the necessity of the increasingly limited resource. The Golaghat road, running in front of his lodge, has a row of thematic lamp posts, carrying a bow and arrow design on top, and ’Ram’ (in Hindi) embossed at its base segment.Īlong the Ram Path, where saffron flags bearing images of Lord Ram and the temple are on sale, the Uttar Pradesh government and other organisations have put up huge banners depicting the Ram temple along with photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.Įven the private firms, wanting to cash in the religious fervour of the city, have put up posters in the city, carrying the image of the temple, the company’s name and logo, with messages like ’Aapka Ayodhya Nagari Mey Swagat karta hai’.Undercurrent | Zheng Lu (2023) | Dag Hammarskjold PlazaĮven though the waters of the East River are visible from the end of Midtown East‘s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, it’s the flow of the natural element as rendered in stainless steel by the artist Zheng Lu that people really notice. His business card carries the image of the new Ram temple and anyone calling him over the mobile phone can hear the tune ‘Ram Aaye Hain Ayodhya Mein’. ‘Jai Shri Ram’ glows at night and one can see it even from a long distance. Pundarik Gupta, the proprietor of the lodge, points to the bow and arrow-themed lighting on its rooftop as he warms himself by a bonfire at night. Saryu Lodge, located near Asharfi Bhawan, has also embraced the spirit of Lord Ram, quite literally. At its lobby counter, a UPI payment barcode panel also carries a graphic design depicting the ‘Ram ki Paidi’. “Once the temple design became public, it caught the fancy of many people,” Deepak, a managerial staff at the lodge told PTI. Prabharaj Palace, a lodge that opened a couple of months ago in the Begumpura area, has mounted a banner-size poster of the Ram temple in its lobby. The image of the temple adorns the boards of almost all shops as well as the lobby spaces of hotels and lodges. Public sector undertaking BSNL has mounted a poster welcoming people to ’Prabhu Sri Ram ki Pawan Nagari Ayodhya’, near a wall next to the Ramjanmabhoomi Path.īut it is not just the main thoroughfare like the Ram Path which is dotted with such banners or posters. “Entire Ayodhya - temples, buses, streets and even mobile phone caller tunes - is getting ’Rammay’ (immersed in the spirit of Lord Ram),” said Ajitesh Shukla, who works at a guest house located near Asharfi Bhawan. Next to it, there is also a poster bearing an image of Lord Ram. Inside the food plaza of the building, an image of the temple adorns a poster behind the counter. But it is not an ordinary advertising space, as it contains a graphic image of Lord Ram and the new temple with a hashtag of ’#AyodhyaKiGarima’. In front of the new railway station building, an advertising firm has put up a call for hiring the space. Practically every company putting up posters in the city has depicted the Ram Temple in one way or the other. Images of the grand temple is finding places even on visiting cards, posters, calendars and even signages. The devotion to the deity is such that even commerce is not untouched by the spiritual feel in the holy city. It depicts silhouettes of the Ram temple, the city skyline and Lord Ram holding his bow. ![]() ![]() Near the redeveloped Ayodhya Dham railway station, another PSU bank has set up a huge hoarding that reads ‘Ayodhya Nagari mey aapka swagat hai’. The bank’s branch office, located in the vicinity, has been beautified with ornate lampposts and canopies with claddings on the side walls while a huge banner mounted on the wall bears an imposing image of the Ram temple along with the bank’s name. A new branch of a PSU bank that opened on Thursday in a building along the Ram Path here has been named the ‘Ramjanmabhoomi’ branch.Ī redeveloped road that skirts its way off Ram Path, on the way to the Ram temple site, has been named Ramjanmabhoomi Path. With the consecration ceremony a couple of days away, the whole of Ayodhya is steeped in religious spirit.
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