Photo Essays
Aarti in Rishikesh - Saffron Photograph Snatchesby on 30 Oct 2009
in Art & Design, Featured, Photo EssaysAarti at the Parmarth Ashram. As sun sets. Lots of saffron-orange. River flowing behind. Young boys in orange. Lots of young boys looking devout, looking bored, tired. Boys looking around, toward the ceremony happening, a young boy reading out prayers. A throng of people facing the water.
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Looking for Shangri-La - Photos from Bhutanby on 28 Sep 2009
in Featured, Living, Photo EssaysA trip to Bhutan. Quiet, peace, easy smiles. Bright greenery, old-world Buddhist architecture. A world, for good or bad, tucked away in itself, in its own elegant, old ways.
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Photos by Night: Bombay from a Taxiby on 16 Sep 2009
in Art & Design, Featured, Photo EssaysDesign conference over & done, my last night. Sleepy Mishra Taxi driver, my trusty Canon. A few hours - we started at 12 midnight - and some studio play to show you what I saw.
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Photographs at Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal, 2009by on 7 Sep 2009
in Featured, Photo Essays, PoliticsIn Bhopal for a weekend visit, I couldn’t resist going over to the old factory with my camera for company. Early Sunday morning, I drove over at 7 am minus the knowledge of what to expect. The guards inside asked for papers required to visit which I obviously didn’t have or know about, however, it is India, and it didn’t take much to get a guided tour of the entire compound which lies untouched 25 years from when the disastrous chemical leak happened.
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Design Surprises from a Road Trip to Rajasthanby on 24 Aug 2009
in Art & Design, Featured, Photo EssaysWe drove to a friend’s wedding in Jodhpur. A large jeep, and a camera. Many images that made us look, with amazement, out the window, stop and get out. A continuous reel of inspiration, graphics, art, architecture. Surprises of design and innovation on street corners. Stark visuals everywhere.
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Photo Walk through the Gay Pride Parade, Delhiby on 30 Jul 2009
in Featured, Photo Essays, PoliticsThese pictures capture the Sunday Gay Pride march down Barakhamba Road in Delhi. There was a band, funky outfits, gay rights slogans, and dancing. The marches happened in Delhi, Bangalore, and Bombay, right before section 377 of the constitution came under reconsideration. In a landmark Delhi High Court judgment, in July 2009, the court decriminalized gay sex between consensual adults from the penal code, upholding it as a fundamental right. Next day in the papers, Vikram Seth rejoiced over the courts “literary” judgment, while Baba Ramdev bandied strong words of disapproval.
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