It’s been a while. Went shooting the other day. Captured a sequence of images on the ferry to a town across Yangon. Knew there was a lesson to be learned. Only crystallized when I attempted turning the images into a comic. Another lesson learned – never attempt something just because […]
Well. I tried. Entered these into a competition. Didn’t win said competition like I had assumed I wouldn’t. Not being pessimistic/fatalistic/unboombastic, just realistic. Thought about submitting them elsewhere. But then, that wasn’t why I wrote them. I wrote them so they’d keep me writing. And after weeks of looking at […]
As the autowallah maneuvered his vehicle through the clogged arteries of the old city, he decided to break the silence with an offhand comment about the “unchecked” mushrooming of roadside stalls. They were never here during the Congress’s rule you know. Only once Bajpah (BJP) came into power did we […]
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” Milan Kundera’s oft quoted statement kept slipping in and out of the shadows over the last 9 days – literal shadows hunching around street corners, lurking under flyovers, while the insidious kinds, cloaked within statements and observations […]
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving […]
When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said, “At least the handle is one of us” – R.L. Stine
December of 2015 The last time I was on an international flight was back in 1995. We flew out of Riyadh and into Hyderabad. Life has been very interesting since then. Switzerland wouldn’t have been the first choice. What with it being unimaginatively expensive. If not for very dear friends […]
“Its interiors were once adorned with expensive carpets and exclusive chandeliers. The gardens blossomed with flowers and fountains made the ambience livelier. A marvellous piece of European style architecture …. the Khursheed Jah Devdi in Hussaini Alam” “It was constructed by Paigah noble Nawab Fakhruddin, who built several other palaces […]
Finally moved from the D200 to the D750, after having used the former for close to 6 years. What necessitated the move? An impending trip to Switzerland, the desire to move to a full frame camera and a good deal on the body. Field testing took place in an area […]
“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.” Jackson Pollock The event was “Inbox – Ramaniyam 2015” at Hill Fort Palace, Hyderabad. Male, Homo sapiens, of the friends persuasion thought it would be a good idea to drop by the place […]
