The news of his death came to me as a message in the middle of a work video call. It felt like a bad joke as I read the one-line message from my mother. She was in too much of…
Kumbh still throbs with vitality, an unbroken link to ancient India. It is a spectacle of faith, a grand parade of gurus, and a living showcase of tradition and culture. Here, the spiritual seeker mingles with the seers, photographers with…
We were meeting again at the IIMC campus after 25 years. It was the batch that graduated in 1999, back when Kolkata was still called Calcutta. About 130 of us from a batch of over 350 had flown in from…
I spotted this buddhist Gompa at large distance as I was walking up towards the Leh Palace. It was an instinctive shot, and I had a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens with my NikonZ8 that day. The dramatic backdrop of the mountain,…
The most exciting shots in the wildlife safari come with some exciting circumstances too. I had spent half a day in the Nairobi national park, and it almost closing time. The half day safari had not been too exciting till…
Its was less than a five kilometres hike, but it has left me winded because of the altitude, and a cough that I have been nursing for a week. Just a few days ago I was living at sea level…
I relaxed as I landed back in Mumbai from Johannesburg, I wasn't hyper-vigilant anymore. I could trust that I wont be mugged at a traffic light and there wont be a day-light car jacking, even though I could still fall…
Entering the African Savanna felt like a homecoming, as if it triggered a memory in the DNA of our ancient origins.. My eyes took time to adjust from the urban landscape to the open Savanna of Maasai Mara and Amboseli…
The existence of National Camera Day (29th June) totally makes sense to me. I mean, we could also have had a World Refrigerator Day, but it just doesn't have that same magical appeal as cameras or the obsessive fans like…
The crowd pulses between a stampede and a celebration. One moment it feels like the end, and the next moment you in in a celebration and flow of humanity. As the waves of crowd squeeze past the narrow lanes, the…