What can portray something as intangible as faith, and the yen and yang of humility and largeness that the relationship between worshipper and deity causes the former to experience? A display of it such as a bent knee and bowed head? This writer thinks not. But photographs of a river of white Gandhi caps and colourful sarees in its sheer volume of about a million pilgrims come close to portraying the magnitude of devotion. Art collector and exhibition curator Parvez Damania and educationist Ratan Luth’s show The Great Pilgrimage  — Pandharpur is a photo exhibition of the 21-day yatra to the Vithoba temple in Pandharpur in Solapur district.

Happenings during a ringan by Mahesh Lonkar