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Faces of Hampi
Posted in This and that, tagged collage, coracle, faces, faces of Hampi, Hampi, Hampi market, heritage, Karnataka, photography, photostory, portraits, shapecollage, South India, Tungabhadra, Vijayanagara, Virupaksha temple on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
United colours of Hampi
Posted in DesiPundit, This and that, tagged colors, colours, Hampi, Hampi market, heritage, Karnataka, photoessay, South India, Vijayanagara on November 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
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.
A story in dance
Posted in Published, This and that, tagged classical dance, kalamandalam, Kathakali, Kerala, South India on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Joy and light!
Posted in This and that on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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!
Spiderman in Bangkok
Posted in This and that, tagged bangkok, building, glass, spiderman, thailand, window cleaner on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
spiderman, spiderman, friendly neighborhood spiderman…
Flower power
Posted in This and that, tagged cheer, flower photography, flowers, sunshine, yellow on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Pontificating on portrait photography
Posted in DesiPundit, This and that on September 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Under a sky of flowers
Posted in Cities that never sleep, This and that, tagged Bangalore, flowers, Karnataka, Lalbagh, South India on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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…
Faith
Posted in This and that, tagged Amritsar, devotion, faith, golden temple, Harmandir Sahib, prayer, Punjab on August 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]




