A traveller disillusioned by the familiar and fascinated with the unknown.

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Late Autumn Sonata

November 29, 2012 - 3 Comments

Earlier this month, I passed through Rajasthan with stops at Jodhpur and Jaipur and then I travelled to Dharamshala and then moved to Chamba and finally climbed up the majestic Sach Pass.

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Kas Plateau

Kas Plateau: Seductive Sahyadri, Sadistic Showers

October 28, 2012 - 8 Comments

The Kas Plateau or Kaas Plateau is a southern valley of flowers that comes alive merely for a month or two in the late monsoons. Bad weather almost ruined my trip, here is what I could salvage.

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Durga Puja, Bangalore, 2012

Durga Puja Photographs 2012: Bangalore

October 23, 2012 - 4 Comments

Although Durga Puja is mostly a festival of Eastern India, smaller scale celebrations can be found in most places in India, generally organized by Bengali communities living in the respective locations.

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Costa Rica Snapshots

Postcards from Costa Rica

October 2, 2012 - 2 Comments

Despite the unfamiliarity, I must say that there is a certain allure associated with Latin American nations. These postcards from Costa Rica verify that.

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Street Photography: Ganesh Chaturthi 2012, Bangalore

September 18, 2012 - One Comment

I was just wandering on the streets when I realized that tomorrow is Ganesh Chaturthi. The realization would not have been so delayed and subdued

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Paddy Fields in Goalpara

Goalpara Diaries 2: Quite flows the River

September 13, 2012 - 6 Comments

The hinterlands in Assam are all about rivers and paddy fields. So, that is what I bring you today.

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Goalpara Diaries 1: Dudhnoi Market and the Banana Cartel

August 26, 2012 - 3 Comments

Last year, I made a brief visit to the Goalpara, a district in Assam on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra river.

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The Pondicherry Disaster

July 15, 2012 - 3 Comments

Last month I made a short one day trip to Pondicherry. It was ill planned and ill timed.

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Rain Noir

June 16, 2012 - One Comment

The combination of rain, streetlights and struggling passersby was comparatively compelling.

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Alleppey and Kumarakom: Backpacking in the Backwaters

April 29, 2012 - 14 Comments

Birds, backwaters, houseboats… everything that one would expect from a trip of Alleppey and Kumarakom.

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Postcards from Karbi Anglong: 38th Karbi Youth Festival

January 26, 2012 - 5 Comments

This is a special post on the forthcoming 38th Karbi Youth Festival.
NONE of these photographs are mine. I’m doing this post as a

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Bangalore Noir: Incorrigibly Branded

December 30, 2011 - 3 Comments

So, eventually I decided to capture Bangalore as it is, the branded city complete with the lonely Ronald McDonald, the Oreo diving into milk and a shapely derriere personifying capitalist lust.

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