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 […]
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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 […]