Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People. Show all posts

The life and times of


Caity and her unspeakably amazing glow-in-the-dark hula hoop, what a crazybeautiful night this was.


Kolkata bids me a rainy farewell.        
                                                                                                                                             

Holi at JNU, with questionable pink foam.


Spring at Sanskriti Kendra


Escher lives. This shiny bauble, however...


Paint mixing at Dilshad Garden. Acrylic, I love you.


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Chulbul Pandey Jr., Comic Con Delhi.

things about delhi

And back again! A smile and a wave to you, follower, and you, worthy reader. It's alright, I know you're all in my head too. Here are some photographs that were taken this past year in Delhi. There aren't that many, not because I haven't been exploring the city, but that it's a clear case what my favourite parts are: old people and ruins, you make the world a better place.


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A trinket seller at the Daryagunj book market, I told him about scoring Milligan's War for twenty bucks but he was unimpressed and suggested I'd be better off with one of his pendants. Sales tactic win on his side? Weak character on mine? Who knows these things. 

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A bit of cricket at dusk, through a comfortable peephole at the Jamali-Kamali mosque, Mehrauli.

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A walnut eater at Meena Bazaar.

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Nizamuddin on Urs. The smell of dying rose petals and slowly cooking meat and sudden flashes of light bouncing off gold embroidery. Hectic and overpowering. Beauty, beauty.

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An school in R K Puram run by an ngo that I did a photo project for.

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Renovation work at Humayun's tomb. The combination of moss and sandstone, it does things to me. If I had my way I'd stop all misled conservation attempts and let things crumble poetically, but don't tell my professors that. Or the ASI.

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Riding a giant ferris wheel at the Eid Milan Mela in front of the Red Fort.

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Deep, deep within the gallis of R K Puram.

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Chawri Bazaar on a Sunday.

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And a hurried flash in Govindpuri I probably won't be able to find again, but nevermind, who doesn't love a panther and a pahalwan?
jewellery


fish

Fresh fish, and the fascinating lady who caught them and sold us some.
Rambha, 2011
oldschool

Rambha, 2011
Fisherfolk.

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I have more photos of people from the village from last year, when we arrived a week too early for the turtles and walked around the village and watched the fishing boats come in and saw the biggest swordfish ever. But I took them all on my father's old Nikon SLR and scanning them is a monumental pain in the behind so these will have to do.

Gokharkuda, 2011
Raju

Aand Raju returns :)
This is after he resurfaced by daylight a day after I rediscovered him by torchlight. He's grown taller and bonier and has new teeth. But his eyes are still as beautiful.

Orissa, 2011
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Sanjoy's shop, a tiny piece of colourfulness in the midst of Sudder Street. Bags and tees and scarves and the loosest flimsiest man-repeller pants this side of a hundred bucks.
Sudder Street may be where all the cool Indiahopping hippies are but Sanjoy's shop is where we wannabe flowerchildren get de garb. And sometimes we discover a cool hippie or two plonked down on the mattress.
Fishing

Senjuti fishing for sunglasses. Kumartuli, the day I took my dad's film camera.

2010.
purple kite boy

Boy with a purple kite, blazing afternoon, Kumartuli.
2009
morning has broken

In the interior of early morning Lake Gardens.
Lamplighting

Lamplighting.
Trichy.
Don't Jump Now.

What I liked about this girl was the ribbons but they don't show.
Mumbai.
Baul +1

Bauls at the local haat, spreading some joy. Gotta love them.

Santiniketan, 2010.
Rupsha

Adding to the greenery. Rupsha on the banks of the Kopai.
Santiniketan, 2010.
Sambit

Sambit looking at a bug. Yeah, I know, the caption helps.
Anushka

Anushka by night.
Land of Dimpaurutis

Bread and milk.