Harabhag

Why this icon A Dhauladhar farming village set amid rice fields, twenty kilometres from Bir. Source: zostel.com

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The story

A late-monsoon morning in Harabhag's rice terraces: close by, a rice plant in the flooded near paddy bows under its ripening heads among its neighbours; beyond, a traveller walks a bund between bright green paddies as egrets fly over, the farmhouse stands at the top of the terraces and low cloud lies between the pine-wooded Dhauladhar foothills under the higher ridge.

Why this picture

Harabhag is a small farming village in the Joginder Nagar valley at the foot of the Dhauladhar, about 20 km from Bir, among rice terraces, meadows and green hills. Through the monsoon the paddies are at their greenest, the streams are full and mist hangs on the hills; chir pines wood the slopes and cattle egrets stalk the wet fields.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

Egrets fly across the whole sky; the sun's rays turn; the flooded paddy's water lines run and the near rice stirs; low cloud drifts a little between the hills; the traveller walks the bund. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Harabhag takes Blush #F6ADCD, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Harabhag

A second scene: another true moment at Harabhag, 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

Sunset at harvest time in Harabhag: a traveller sits on a bund with a mug of chai as the rice terraces turn gold and the sky goes pink over the snow-streaked Dhauladhar; the village farmhouse stands above with its windows lit, a herder brings two cows home along a bund, and the Kangra Valley Railway's little train runs along the far hillside into the pines.

Why this moment

Harabhag is a hamlet of rice terraces and farmhouses near Joginder Nagar at the foot of the Dhauladhar; our own guide calls its sunset life-altering, the sky exploding into orange, pink and purple as the sun sinks behind the mountains, and from October the skies are clear and the peaks behind carry snow. The rice is harvested in October. Joginder Nagar is the terminus of the narrow-gauge Kangra Valley Railway, whose small trains run along the hillsides; village cattle come home along the bunds at dusk.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

The little train runs along the far hillside into the pines; egrets fly home across the sky; the setting sun's fan of rays breathes; the near rice and the pines sway; the cows graze; steam rises off the mug. 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.

Harabhag in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Harabhag, 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

The village farmhouseMonument
Harabhag's village farmhouse between the rice fields and the road, mountains on one side and paddy on the other: a two-storey house of stone and timber, a wooden veranda upstairs, a slate roof.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
The Kangra Valley RailwayOf the place
The Kangra Valley Railway (1929), 164 km of 2 ft 6 in gauge from Pathankot that ends at Joginder Nagar beside Harabhag: a small ZDM-3 diesel in red with a gold stripe hauling short coaches through the foothills — diesel since 1976, never steam.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Harabhag 3

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

Say hello to Harabhag's Zobus

Zobu in Harabhag'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

The kit

Everything Harabhag 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

Harabhag’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 Harabhag’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG