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Reflections of an impressionistic kind
That’s the impressionistic artist in me cropping in closer into the details of the photo I shot below. Pretty Monet like, the way the camera records it, I thought. I wish I was in Paris in the 1880’s...
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Religion: does it unify or divide this world?
Two nuns walk down the street just before sundown on a rainy evening. Though Christians form a fraction of the entire population in the Nilgiris, churches are omnipresent in Ooty. The bloodiest wars in...
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Altogether elsewhere on a day at Avalanche lake, Ooty.
Avalanche lake is situated at bikeable distance from Ooty, in the Nilgiris. It is a popular campsite for students and tourists alike. This is shot from a resort facing the picturesque valley. Nice! A...
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Meenakshi Temple Madurai: Did someone say they would bomb this place?
Picture this: A man called Johnson has an illicit relationship with a woman. Another man called Satish objects to this. Irked by the objection, Johnson informs the police that Satish has planted a bomb...
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Dark, dingy but full of hope
Ride a local train in Mumbai and you can see the best and worst of living conditions in the city at one go. The spanking glass and concrete high rises contrast with the old crumbly Mumbai in a...
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Bird watching in a place called Kondakarla
I’m not much of a bird watcher, but when there’s nothing else to do, I tend to lift my camera to find something interesting. On a visit to see my sister’s charitable foundation on the outskirts of the...
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Love. Laughter. Care. And a life turns around.
This is Icha Foundation. A young charitable trust my sister started less than 4 years ago with a lifetime commitment to raising abandoned children, particularly ones with disabilities from abjectly...
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Street photography in a sea of faceless Indians
On a visit to Orissa in search of the elusive Dongria Kondh tribe, I chanced upon a weekly market in a remote village called Kakriguma. I was curious about what a flea market in a village populated...
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The Zigzag love dance of rat snakes
This was on a trip to Auroville, Pondicherry. The place where I stayed was in the middle of a thick forest. One evening on my way back I saw this amazing mating act of rat snakes. They were at least 4...
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Faces of Orissa: street photography, part 2
As I write this, a month or two after my visit to this village market in Orissa, there has been a flood that has claimed 39 lives leaving more than 3.3 million of the population marooned in knee-deep...
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