Graffiti- Indian Style

On a languid Easter weekend morning, strolling along a little-used pathway that runs all around the solitary lake in a small hill town of western India I found this- the wise utterings, of some sage or the other, scrawled, on the whitewashed walls of an otherwise ordinary house, in brick-red paint for posterity- or at least as long as the next monsoons...!_____Nikon FM10, 35-70mmKodak 200 ISO2004, Mount Abu, In...
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Puppet on a string

How often have we felt like puppets on a string, pulled this way and that...? This one seemed to be asking me the point of it all..._____Nikon FM10, 35-70mmKodak 200 ISO1996, At a marketplace in Kathmandu, Ne...
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Speed thrills...!

Schumacher or Average Joe, no matter who you are, you've probably dreamt of your one moment of insane speed- wind in your hair, the ground rushing by beneath you and the adrenaline surging through your veins._____Nikon FM10, 35-70mmKodak 200 ISO2002, At a kart track in Bombay, In...
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Father, son and holy goat...!

This picture was taken at 6.30 in the morning in a small village outside Pondicherry, in the south of India. Father and son were out, together, grazing their solitary goat. It struck me that the trio were probably representative of life in rural India, where families own few resources and survival is often the difficult way out. The look in the little boy`s eyes, to me, says it all..._____Pentax ME II Super, 50mmIlford 800 ISO2004,...
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Beach-front Cafe

The view from a quiet beachfront cafe in Pondicherry conveys the lazy mood of the afternoon complete with a high contrast azure and white sky, people-less streets and one solitary observer lost in his own thoughts...Pondicherry, for the most part, is a quaint and quiet little Union Territory on the south-east coast of India, a few hours north of Chennai. Though this picture could've been shot just about anywhere in the world,...
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Some invoke the elephant-headed god, I prefer bovines.

Hurried as this attempt may be at setting up a photoblog, it'll have to do... It seems fitting to start off with one of my obsessions- cows. Thankfully Ahmedabad, where I stay, has an overabundance of the bovines!Cows are revered and worshipped by some, others see them as a nuisance on the roads. I see them as the very picture of tranquility, idling away their time while they languidly chew their cud oblivious of the world around...
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