All Things Considered

The question that begs asking is just when are these red-robed apple-cheeked little monks most adorable ?
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A series of posts on Ladakh shall soon start..

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Just as most Kathakali performances are, this one too was an act from Mahabharata -  The performance opened with the scene of the game of dice and concluded with the slaying of Dhruyodhana and Dhusshasana.
[The young man ,who played Shakuni, is deep in thoughts] Probably wondering what a dozen photographers might want in that small […]

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This is an attempt to answer that question that people seem to be asking too much lately. “Not writing on the blog ? Whatz up lately ?”
- Was at IFFI Goa - 3-4 days of movies back to back. Life seemed too perfect. It was, too.
- Idlyllic Karwar and that unforgettable sunset with green(yes, green), […]

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Someone asked me this evening if I was done writing all that I wanted to write about Varanasi. No, I hadn’t. But then, most of the stuff I hadn’t written about were enormously touristy places.
But, a coupla hidden treasures need mention.
1/ Ustad’s house. An unassuming, old, a typically Banarasi building that was once Ustad Bismillah […]

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If I honestly (i.e if you still believe in that outdated idea) have to put something nice here with that theme, I’d have to go out and shoot some to start with. If I know myself well, that ain’t gonna happen for a long time. But if I know KK well enough, you should see […]

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White and Red will follow. When you get these ‘aha idea!’ moments, it becomes very easy to inflict it on innocent people.
[6AM, Commercial Street]

[8PM, IndiraNagar]

[6PM, Haridwar]

[7PM, Varanasi]

[12 Noon, PangongTso],

(For those in the know, this post could alternatively be titled ‘cheating’)

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One of the many things that I was obsessed with on my trip to Ladakh is the sight of scree slopes in light and shadow. When I say obsessed, I quite mean what the word is supposed to mean. Really obsessed. Really really obsessed. Really really really.. Ok, you get the idea. I was clicking […]

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As unchanging and static as mountains may be , when the clouds above drift and cast those shifting shadows on the precipitous slopes of rock and stone , these mountains look totally different from one moment to the next. This constant play of light and shade on the arid mountainscape , for me, is […]

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The rattling tindrum turns a sharp corner. ‘Nawalgarh! Nawalgarh!’, hollers the bus conductor from the deck above. All the buses in Rajasthan are doubler deckers. Except that on the second deck, there is no deck. People , animals , precariously hanging bags and baskets, cycles, and children form one indistinguishable pile on top of the […]

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[A Gallong Adi man smoking rice for Apong]

Picture shot at Paia, a village near Along, West Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh.
Our man here is a Gallong Adi tribal preparing the paddy grains to make Apong. Apong is a beer made out of rice. It is atleast 3-month process that includes drying, smoking, fermenting, filtering and finally […]

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The hot brown sand stretches as far as one’s eyes can go, dotted only by a few desert cacti and thorny shrubs. The dunes further away shine in the heat-haze. In this forsaken land, only an occasional well or a tiny mud hut distinguishes one piece of land from the other. There is nothing to […]

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A little girl on the street. [Old shot, did the BW conv today]

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[Earlier post from the the trip here] 
From foggy Wayanad we descend down to Calicut - the change in weather indicating the change in altitude quite perceptibly. By the time we arrive at Calicut, the sun is quite high in the sky. Indicates smouldering sand at the beach. Shade of a hotel room is a wiser option. Usually afternoons and […]

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The sun is fading away, that is the end of the day.
No brownie points for guessing what I’ve been listening to (too much), lately :-p
[Atop Hemakuta hill, Hampi]

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Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees, and marmalade skies..
- Lennon/McCartney
Stop. Picture that first ;)

[Shot at Parassini, Kerala]
This is probably such a cliche of a shot, but invokes memories of that silent evening sunset along the river, followed by an almost-full-moon night. The river scene is quite nice when the moonlight falls […]

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