Showing posts with label India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 May 2015

Sheer beauty...


The city palace Udaipur boasts of one sumptuous room after another. Though faded and frayed in parts, the sheer and exquisite beauty of these rooms is hard to describe....







































Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Jahanpanah: "Refuge of the world"


The 4th medieval city of Delhi - Jahanpanah...it's ruins now enclosed by the urban sprawl of many south Delhi residential areas.

  New Delhi, India

                                                                                               
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Monday, 18 November 2013

No wine, in old bottles...


                     @ a cafe....New Delhi, India 


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Friday, 8 November 2013

Evening walk


This photograph also appeared on the National Geographic website, as a part of the "daily dozen" selected by National Geographic editors on a weekly basis 

                    Kochi, Kerala, India

                    Chinese fishing nets (Cheena vala) dot the coast line of the port city of Kochi - in India's southern-most state of Kerala.
                    This photograph captures the preparations for the evening catch, as the fishermen take an exploratory walk before
                    hanging the nets.



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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Morning has broken...


                         Delhi, India
                         At 8 am on a winter morning in February 2013, the hustle & bustle of Chandni Chowk is some hours away...

...it's a busy time for the local tea shops though...
                                            
                                                                                            














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Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Where the streets have...books


Chatuchak market, Bangkok, Thailand


    Connaught place, New Delhi, India


          
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Monday, 29 April 2013

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                                          Leh, Ladakh, India

                                          A monsatery door


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Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Nothing to laugh about....


Some weeks ago, I was literally accosted by scores of young girls - out at Humayun's tomb on a school trip...they all wanted to pose in front of my camera. But one girl didn't seem to share the carefree exuberance of her school mates...and I wondered what it was, that made her sad.


     New Delhi, India

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Sunday, 6 January 2013

And the shadow belongs to light....


At the little known Kushak Mahal- a hunting lodge built by Firoz Shah Tughlaq, inside the well known Teen Murti Bhavan complex, New Delhi (India)

                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Sunday, 28 October 2012

Yes you can, no you can't

With Id ul Zuha being celebrated yesterday, this post on an experience around Id ul Fitr some months back is a little late...anyway, here goes...


At the Nizamuddin Auliya dargah, New Delhi, India, August 2012
As expected, it was a massive crush of people on the last Thursday evening before Id-ul-fitr. While the crowds made it difficult to wield the camera for more than a split second at a time, the people in these very crowds provided interesting studies in contrast.

The two photographs below represent the two reactions to my attempts to capture the goings on...there were people who objected to photographs being taken, and others who actively encouraged it. (caught between these two extremes, I got the maulvi to say "aye" before proceeding!)

With the devout having fasted during the day, the approaching dusk was a sign of food around the corner... Amongst children, there was a palpable sense of excitement: seats were bagged on the ground and plates lined up in front, long before the food was scheduled to arrive.

This boy turned around as if on cue, but with a not too happy expression on his face. WHY - he seemed to ask...





The two kids below fought with each other to get into the frame - the young boy protesting vehemently at being upped by the (elder) girl, who thrust herself into the foreground. They were happy posing in front of the camera...food, perhaps, temporarily forgotten.




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Friday, 19 October 2012

A selection from the series "Lost in Tranquility", on display at Gallery Ragini (New Delhi, India) from 13th Oct - 12th Nov 2012.

Group art show : Urbane Expressions
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#1-3... VT station, Mumbai, India
# 4-5...Alcatraz prison, San Francisco Bay area, US

    

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Friday, 5 October 2012

@14,500 feet



Ladakh, India
Weather in the remote & barren landscape around Pangong Lake in Ladakh (in the northern reaches of the country), can change rapidly - sunny, misty, cloudy, rainy - all in a span of a few minutes. This shot hints at the brilliance of the sun, when it will break through the thick and dark clouds....


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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Catwalk...on & off the ramp


                    Delhi, India

                    It was not just the models who were in the limelight at the Delhi Couture Week 2012



More from the Delhi Couture Week 2012






                                                                                                             








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Saturday, 25 August 2012

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                                          At the Nizamuddin Auliya dargah, New Delhi



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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Meditation...


                    Inside a church, Kochi, Kerala, India



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Tuesday, 14 August 2012

...and miles to sleep, before I go....

                                 Chandni Chowk, Delhi, India

                                 While many people can sleep through it all - cacophony of bustling Chandni Chowk
                                 included - the choice of this gentlemen's "bed" is unique



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