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...!

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Nikon FM10, 35-70mm
Kodak 200 ISO
2004, Mount Abu, India

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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...

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Nikon FM10, 35-70mm
Kodak 200 ISO
1996, At a marketplace in Kathmandu, Nepal

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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.

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Nikon FM10, 35-70mm
Kodak 200 ISO
2002, At a kart track in Bombay, India

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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...

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Pentax ME II Super, 50mm
Ilford 800 ISO
2004, Pondicherry, India

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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, it's the epitome of the typical Pondicherry afternoon.

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Pentax ME II Super, 50mm
Kodak 400 ISO
2004, Pondicherry, India

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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 them. It takes a lot to make the average Indian road cow get moving...!

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Pentax ME II Super, 50mm
Kodak 400 ISO
2004, Ahmedabad, India

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