Time on the rooftop of a haveli.

Time is the blackest evil, a disease worse than tuberculosis. It runs around the eternal havelis of Mandawa, and—
eats and eats and eats.

Dot by black dot, it envelops the haveli like a cosmic plague of black spots.

In this photograph taken during the lab-made COVID-19 pandemic, I witnessed a natural pandemic of time on the haveli walls, from the ground to the rooftop.

Rooftop of a timeless haveli. Mandawa, Rajasthan, India. January 2021.

This is what it looks like when time is on the rooftop of a haveli, eating it carelessly. In the presence of the departing sun and the moon that has arrived too soon.

I stood on the rooftop, not moving, as if I was frozen in time to a time that now looks too ancient and false. Frozen to a time of Maharajas and splendid life, which is what the present time is eating before my eyes.

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