United colours of Hampi

Back from Hampi – tired, tanned and happy! I will work on a more detailed post soon, but for now, soak in the colour and character of Hampi market.

And the doors and windows!

Have a nice week! Come back soon for the faces of Hampi.

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A story in dance

I recently watched a Kathakali recital at the Chembur Fine Arts Society in Mumbai. The performance that evening was based on the story of the wicked king Jarasandha who is supposed to have lived in the time of the Mahabharata. Over a two hour period, the performers enacted a piece called Jarasandha Vadam (the conquest [...]

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Breakfast at 14000 feet

4.30 a.m. and it is bright outside our tiny hotel room in Lachen. At just less than 9000 feet, Lachen feels pleasant; my teeth are already chattering but I choose to ignore that and focus instead on the dozens of families already up and about, children shouting to get on to their jeeps first. You [...]

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Joy and light!

This Diwali, light a lamp – for someone you love, for a cause you support, for a start to a prayer, for your own joy and peace…

Happy Diwali!

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Spiderman in Bangkok

spiderman, spiderman, friendly neighborhood spiderman…

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Flower power

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us ~Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Alas, how often do we notice them; the joy and cheer flowers give us, don’t we take for granted?
I am in Chennai just now to visit my [...]

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Pontificating on portrait photography

I used to, and still do, have difficulty in taking portraits – pointing a camera towards a person’s face always felt like intruding and I kept away from portrait photography, preferring instead “faceless” images of all kinds. A moment of epiphany and I set myself the task of bravely pointing my camera at people.
And [...]

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Under a sky of flowers

In Bangalore – and after an extremely stressful first ten days, the dust looks like settling down and I am ready to start thinking about making an effort to stop missing Bombay (and I promise nothing, note).
For now, an old photograph from Bangalore – this remains one of my most popular images on flickr…

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Faith

I read this today and liked it enough to share here…
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful “magic skills” that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom [...]

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You are as old as you feel

Thought for the day:
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter”. ~Mark Twain

{Chatuchak weekend market, Bangkok, Thailand}

{Local market, Maddur, Karnataka, India}

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