Travel Postcards: Journeys in India

For over a decade now, I have been travelling across India to capture photographs. I began by taking photographs while travelling with fellow photography enthusiasts back in college and on leisurely holidays with friends and family. Later, I made images while travelling on assignments as a journalist and also developed a few travel photo essays….

Photo-album: Holi at Nandgaon and Barsana

Mythology says Nandgaon is the village where Krishna stayed for a few years with his foster father Nanda Baba and mother Yashoda. Nandgaon and the adjacent Barsana, the native place of Radha, is where Holi is played in all its multi-hued glory as villagers re-enact the romantic escapades of the two lovers through the Lathmaar…

A Ramzan evening at the Jama Masjid

Every time I walk to the Jama Masjid from the Chawri Bazaar metro station, what amazes me most is the unanticipated appearance of the mosque’s grand dome at the precise moment when the road bends right for the first time. And before that right, strikingly enough, no first-timer can ever predict that less than a…

Kynja Babha’s Day at the Anganwadi

Kynja Babha is a five-year-old girl in the faraway village of Khrang in the East Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. Kynja, the daughter of a broom cultivator, comes from a Below Poverty Line (BPL) family. Her father has a small broom farm down the slopes on the edge of the village. She has three sisters…