Karoonjhar Photography

Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you’ll find it there. Karoonjhar Photography is the true reflection of desert Thar’s photography website, covering every aspect of Thar, including nature, wild life, biodiversity, sceneries, locals, and environment. Karoonjhar Photography believes that to photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Dileep Parmar

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. And the story of Dileep Parmar in this aspect is totally surprising, the man who started the career in the field of photography by using the smartphone is just adorable.

Though Dileep has an amazing eye who knows the ways to capture the moments by heart.

In simple words, we can say Dileep is a Photographer cum a true ambassador of Karoonjhar.

Early Life

Born from under the sea, Nagarparkar is a small town situated at the foot of the dramatic and mineral-rich Karoonjhar hills, and neighbors the Indian border in Sindh. Surrounded by rocky belts and sand dunes, the desert is home to centuries-old Jain and Hindu temples, a white marble mosque, a magical well, thousands of resident snakes, memorial stones, granite deposits, and rare flora and fauna. It is said that the Karoonjhar hills provide 1.25 kg of gold every day in the form of red granite stone, china clay, and honey.

The city was largely populated by non-violent Yogis and Jain Munis, the followers of Lord Mahavira and Parsanatha, some hundreds of years ago. These Jains and Shaivites were known to practice austerities in the hills of Karoonjhar.

Local stories say that wealthy Hindu merchants built temples in the area and dedicated them to Lord Parshwanath, the 23rd Jain prophet. But with hardly any Jains left, these major archaeological monuments lie abandoned, neglected, and shrouded in mystery.

And the objective behind this step is to promote the hidden and untold stories of Karoonjhar globally.