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Bidar

Encouraged by the rewarding side trips I had taken from Mysore, I decided to go to the remote town of Bidar, tucked away in a northern corner of Karnataka. It took me 24 hours of travel to get there - two trains and a bus - but was well worth the effort.

There are a number of sites of interest that I missed in Bidar, and I hope one day to return.

Some of my photos are now available to buy in a variety of sizes and finishes, or as digital files, at Serenity Photography.

You can keep abreast of my travels by visiting my website.

I get a lot of requests to update this gallery with more recent shots of Bidar; unfortunately I am no loner in India, but back home in England...so unless anyone would like to buy me a return ticket, I'm afraid that won't be possible right now :) If anyone does know of any sites with more recent pictures, feel free to leave a link in te comments section. Serena

Climbing the Stairs
Climbing the Stairs		 Driving a Cow
Driving a Cow		 Brothers
Brothers
Just a Wall
Just a Wall		 Pumping
Pumping		 Getting a Mouthful
Getting a Mouthful
School Girls
School Girls		 It's Only a Copy
It's Only a Copy		 Smiling Girl
Smiling Girl
But Why
But Why		 n the Bin
n the Bin		 Killing the Road
Killing the Road
Ornate Door
Ornate Door		 The Madrassa
The Madrassa		 Through the Blue Door
Through the Blue Door
Bidar Street
Bidar Street		 Proud Mother
Proud Mother		 City Defences
City Defences
Half a Building
Half a Building		 That's What I Call a Spiders Web
That's What I Call a Spiders Web		 Up on the Roof
Up on the Roof
Lovely Ladies
Lovely Ladies		 Just the Two of Us
Just the Two of Us		 Three Men Posing
Three Men Posing
Barbers Shop
Barbers Shop		 Cow at the Corner
Cow at the Corner		 Grazing Goats
Grazing Goats
Tea Break
Tea Break		 Walking
Walking		 Water Carriers
Water Carriers
Lock-Up
Lock-Up		 Nanny
Nanny		 Termites
Termites
Looking Up
Looking Up		 Healthy Horns
Healthy Horns		 Road Works
Road Works
Walking the Cow
Walking the Cow		 On the Rubbish Heap
On the Rubbish Heap		 Hot Oil
Hot Oil
Scaring the Pigeons
Scaring the Pigeons		 Up the Alley
Up the Alley		 Well Lit
Well Lit
Badrir Shahi Tombs
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Anant 09-Jul-2009 13:40
Hi u all.. ist realy feel very good have the bidar pics on net. miss u so much Bidar.
feroz 01-Jul-2009 09:47
hi..feroz here..i am from Gole khana...but currently working in K.S.A...and really missing my Bidar..my friends.....and hey.!! serena hats off to u dear...u have done a great job...
masood qadri 19-Apr-2009 15:55
MASOOD Q.
Hi its nice to see BIDAR in pictures.
Great job.... from DUBAI
Guest 27-Mar-2009 12:25
hi.......
dis is santosh kumar
u did a great job
i m very happy by looking your website
Prithvi Raj 20-Feb-2009 07:06
Hi, Guys its wonderful to see Bidar pics on website , you have done a great job, and also if possible update more photos........... Thank you.
siraj 02-Nov-2008 02:15
My,Name's Sha khaiser moinuddin quadri GOAL KHANA BIDAR(SIRAJ) I am leaving in Riyadh saudi arabi, Hi Frends who made this web site I really love u,,, Because I love my town & missing to this Really thanksssssssssss to u,,,BIDAR LOVE U MISS UUUU,,,
manju 13-Aug-2008 11:02
Its great to see Bidar.You have just included 20% of Bidar information.We do have a very good and beautifull places at Bidar. the main Places of BIdar like Gurudwara, Paapnaash, Naring jharana,etc..........., you must include these places. and also should include the pictures of Bidari arts.
Ahtesham 30-Jul-2008 16:25
Hi.. Iam Ahteshamuddin It is nice to see the pictures of my home town, thank u serena.
Ranjeet 22-Jul-2008 17:09
hi bidar i am very happy to see bidar photo on web site
MAJID KHAN 17-Jul-2008 07:08
IAM MAJID KHAN FROM DUBIA,THIS PICTURE ARE VERY NICE THANKS AND PLEASE UPDATED LATEST PICTURE OF BIDAR I THINK IN BIDAR THERE ARE SOMANY GOOD PLACES TO TAKE PICTURE SO PLEASE UPDATE IT THANK YOU ONCE MORE.
M.A.Khuddus Siddiqui (Wasim) 10-Jun-2008 09:26
Hi, I am Mohd. Abdul Khuddus Siddiqui (Wasim) lived in Jeddah . It is amazing to see snaps of our bidar city after a long time, thanks for the person who tooked the snaps for NRI's to remind their native,please can you add more snaps.
rakesh jawale 03-Jun-2008 10:29
it's really amazing to see someone taking such snaps of our bidar and making it to the global................So who so ever it is ...............thanks a lot


from: Rakesh Jawale
VIJAYKUMAR.D.TALAMPALLI 01-Jun-2008 11:42
I am very happy by seeing this.If possible please add other photos like PAAPNASH temple, NARSINH ZHARNA,GURUDWARA etc.
vijaykumartalampalli@yahoo.co.in
Serena Bowles 19-May-2008 19:21
I'm afraid I'm back home in England now, so am unable to update my photos. Hopefully I shall visit India again one day, and maybe return to Bidar, god willing.
Shahzad Hussain 19-May-2008 15:05
HI All
It is nice to see the pictures of my home town,please can u add new updated pictures,now Bidar is well developed city.So that people like me can be able to see pictures of our native place.
Guest 27-Feb-2008 08:26
Hi this is shafi from hallikhed B cell 9916569251 any one friendship with me
Syed Imran Ali Nawab 01-Feb-2008 15:29
Dear All,

Nice to see my native place but could u plz update the latest photos as far as my knowledge we had growth a lot so Bidar is not a village it is a multicultured City and every one will respect each other. We had growth a lot & we are around the world just go through individual house u will find one Engineer or Doctor working in diff country. Kindly we request u to update accordinlgy. Proud to say that we r from Bidar Allah had given us a great opprtunity to work around the world n we mis every time our native place.
Guest 26-Nov-2007 12:24
Dear Frient,

Thanks so much for visiting my home country.

I am Mohammed Abdul Mateen, lived in Dubai and after a long time back i had seen such beautiful and natural images. god bless you my dear.

take care
allah hafiz.
Naveen Kumar 18-Oct-2007 09:22
Naveen here, Sareina you have dont outstanding job, you know I got my past rememberence back,its my home town, I know every road, every galli, every building almost every thing,
So I have decided to go to my home town today itself. Thank you
k.naseeruddin 27-Aug-2007 09:00
hi'what a beautiful images that is .number of monument is there which u had missed like chowbara,juma masjid nursing mandir etc
naseer 27-Aug-2007 08:50
hi'serena you did a very nice job.i m very delighted after see bidar imager particularly that smiling girl from chowbara.
naseer 27-Aug-2007 08:50
hi'serena you did a very nice job.i m very delighted after see bidar imager particularly that smiling girl from chowbara.
joseph batinkoz 21-Jul-2007 05:56
you have done a great job.
Zain uddin 21-Jul-2007 05:42
you have done a great job ,its exceptional u reminded me the moment of time ive spend there , but what all i can say is that ur work is really exceptional and like the pictures u ve highted ,u have almost covered the life of bidar in this site , gud on u mite ,hope to meet bidar again.
Serena Bowles 20-Jul-2007 16:01
I think these do reflect Bidar's beauty, Rajesh; it was somewhere I liked a lot. I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
rajesh 20-Jul-2007 14:05
i am happy to see the images of my place on the internet but on the other end sad to see underdevelopment of the place.U could have added some other pictures which reflects the beauty of the city
craig cameron 27-Jun-2007 18:19
wow this is superb i was living in Bidar for about six months from last september (2006) and i never thought i'd see pictures of my second home on the internet! thank you so much, i recognise so many places
Serena Bowles 07-May-2007 12:36
Unfortunately I am back home in England now, but if I get the chance in the future to revisit your lovely city, I most certainly shall. I'm glad you enjoyed the photos. Thanks for your messages.
sangamesh 06-May-2007 14:29
i am very happy by seeing all this images which reflects our city .......
if possible,requesting,plz add some more images like papanash temple and so on..
so that every one can see the beauty of our Bidar city.
Yesudas 05-May-2007 05:36
Hi,
I'm very happy to seen Bidar Images.
U've done good work.

Yeshudas (Bidar)
Serena Bowles 21-Apr-2007 16:43
I think the madrassa/madarsa issue is one of transliteration; various spellings are acceptable - just see this Wikepedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasah

As for wanting to "search the garbage" - I hardly had to search, rubbish is very difficult to avoid in India, and I think you are kidding yourself if you disagree. If you think this photo gives a bad impression, maybe you ought to help to keep your beautiful country and city clean, rather than complain when people photograph the rubbish that is there.

I take pictures of what I see - the negative as well as the positive; I'm sorry if this upsets you, Mohd, but I will not change.

I really enjoyed my visit to Bidar; I relished the fact that it is not visited by so many tourists, and had positive encounters with most of the people I met there. I would certainly recommend others to visit it. I could only spend two nights there, and I freely admit that I did not see everything there is to see there, but I found Bidar to be a lovely town. It's not perfect, but neither am I!

I hope you enjoyed looking at the pictures.

Serena.
mohd imran ahmed 19-Apr-2007 21:23
thanks for visiting my native bidar, and taking snaps of it but im confused whether u wanted to show bidar to the world or wanted to search the garbage of the beautiful and passionated city.... hope not so, but i think this photo gives a bad impression ...

I'll like to invite you once again to bidar... but a correction i wanted you to have
Madrassa... its not a madrassa, it is madarsa,, in english a school . centuries back it was the finest university in the world... here science, social and very subject was made to learn..
it will be better if u call it a university.
and i give u some more places in bidar where u can get even more snaps.

1.Gurunanak area, gurudwara.
2.paapnas
3.astur
4.basvakalyan
visit it again along with all of us n ur friends
Mohammed Mukarram 18-Apr-2007 09:50
Mohammed Mukarram
Subhash N.Beerge 18-Apr-2007 07:41
Hi, I am Subhash N.Beerge, its realy nice photos. But i think u have not visited Bidar properly, or may be some body has not shown u well. U have seen only one face of Bidar, first of all i want to tell it is not a remote place, one can term it as Crown of Karnataka. And it is less than 200 kms from Hyderabad. And i think u have not visited places like Astur,Basavkalyan etc.

Hey before visiting one more time to Bidar just mail me at harshapreeti@rediffmail.com.
So that i can provide u all the details and I promise u that time u will be realy succesfull in catching live Bidar.

Thanks
Guest 12-Apr-2007 13:29
good collection.........
Prashanth Alle 20-Feb-2007 07:55
Hi!
I Dr Prashanth Alle,trainee in Neurosurgery in Chicago,would like to say "great work".
I was surprised to see pictures of Bidar,as its my home town I was born and brought up there in Bidar.I am totally impressed by your work!good going keep it up!
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