Bhor

Why this icon Bhatghar Dam (1927), whose automatic gates pour white water every monsoon. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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The story

Bhatghar in the monsoon: the long stone dam closes the green valley and pours white water through its gates, while a traveller in a raincoat points at the spill from the riverbank and egrets feed in the shallows.

Why this picture

Bhatghar Dam (1927), near Bhor south of Pune, is a solid masonry wall 58 m high and 1.6 km long across the Velvandi valley in the Sahyadri, laid in courses of grey-brown stone. When the monsoon fills its reservoir, white water sheets down through the automatic spillway gates into the river below; little egrets and cormorants work the river, mango trees stand on its banks, and the hills turn green.

The sky wears a faint Paithani, from Maharashtra.

The motion

The spill pours down the gates; the river's lines run; egrets cross the sky and feed at the water's edge; the cormorant pecks; the mango trees sway; clouds drift. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418

Jade #04B495

Paddy Green #B2D234

Bhor takes Paddy Green #B2D234, one of the three Fields colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Bhor

A second scene: another true moment at Bhor, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

Sunrise on Bhatghar's backwater after the rains: a traveller in a life vest rests a yellow kayak on the still lake, the paddle across the body, as the sun comes up over the Sahyadri; egrets fly low across the water, a little cormorant dries its wings on a rock and a kingfisher watches from a dead snag.

Why this moment

Once the monsoon ends, Bhatghar's reservoir lies full and still among the Sahyadri hills near Bhor, and its stays paddle the backwater by kayak, far from the dam and its spillway. The Zostel guide to Bhor names kayaking on the lake, village walks at sunrise and the birds over the water; little cormorants dry their wings on its rocks, and egrets and kingfishers fish its edges.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

Egrets fly low across the lake; the lake's rows run, row against row; the rising sun's fan of rays breathes; a bank of cloud drifts along the hills. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Bhor in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Bhor, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

A kayak on the backwaterOf the place
Once the monsoon ends, Bhatghar's backwater lies still among the Sahyadri hills, and Bhor's stays paddle it by kayak, well away from the spillway.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
A little cormorant drying its wingsOf the place
The little cormorant of Bhatghar's reservoir and river: a small black diver that perches on a rock with its wings spread to dry after fishing.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Bhor 2

Detailed icons from the library that name Bhor among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Bhor alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Bhor's Zobus

Zobu in Bhor's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

Their faces, poses and moves 12

Bhor's Zobus from the rig: a face for a profile picture, a pose for a story, a move as a still; each opens its file. Every Zobu in motion

Faces 10

Show all 10

Poses 2

The kit

Everything Bhor needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

44 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

Bhor’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Bhor’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG