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 - like some memory embedded in my DNA was resonating to the place where homosapians were first shaped, or more reasonably, maybe because of being in nature, My eyes took time to…
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…
Its the winter sun in Kilaraipur. The audience has started to gather for the annual village olympics event. The girls team is warming up for the hockey match. The horses are being fed for the race ahead. The tractor tires…
It was a bit daunting to select the best from all the photographs that I took in 2022 (a total of 8750), . It wasn't just the volume that made it tough, but also the difficulty of comparing across categories. And…
All journeys have the same shape....
He agreed to stand and pose for the photograph. After I was done, he tried to tell me something but couldn't speak, I thought that he was probably speech impaired. Then he spit out his pan, and said - Ye aapke…
The life in the village looks simple, but has its own complexities. There is a strict social code which governs most things in the lives of the Rabari tribes of Rajasthan. This code of conduct decides how they dress, what they…
The SMS interrupted my lazy evening of bing-watching a new web-series. The message said that ten thousand rupees had been withdrawn from my credit card. I didn't pay attention to the message, until I got another message that another ten…