Leaving Mumbai …
January 17, 2021I never thought I would leave Mumbai. The city of my birth. The city that let me grow. The city that was so much part of me, that the very act of returning to it from my travels, would make me smile…
Category: Photographs
Temples of India : Kailasanathar Temple, Kanchi
April 14, 2018The Kailasanathar Temple (Lord of Kailasa) , is an awe inspiring temple complex in Kanchipuram, the Pallava Capital. Built in the classic Pallava architectural style, the temple is a carved out of massive sandstone. About 1400 years old (give or take a few…
Temples of India : Srikurmam – the temple to the Tortoise God
March 3, 2018Kurma (the Tortoise) is the second avtaar of Lord Vishnu. The first being Matsya or the Fish. The first time you encounter Kurma avtaar is during the great cosmic ocean churn (Samudra Manthan), the great mount Mandara is being used as a…
Mumbai Reflections
September 18, 2017Mumbai. My city. There is no where else in the world, that i feel so connected – and i have lived in other places. I can watch the city go by, for hours at a go. feeling every pulse of it. Alive,…
Historical Mumbai – a walk through the past
November 28, 2016Sometime last year, I figured one thing about my life. That my brain was going to rust, metaphorically speaking, if I didn’t do things apart from work. A news role, placed serious dampeners on my meeting interesting people, and doing interesting things…
#Mumbai – Bathed in Gold
February 12, 2016Sometimes, in the middle of the hustle and bustle of a city like Mumbai, you come across a scene like this. It makes you stop and pause. Shot on a one plus one. It just was a golden hue, at sunrise ……
Angkor Thom – Life
November 30, 2015Yesterday, i was sifting through the photos that i had shot during the travels. This one stood out for me, for one simple reason. In the ruined remains of a former, glorious, capital city, of the Khmer Empire, a thin gossamer of what…
Taking a Break – Angkor Wat
November 30, 2015The last time i took a break, was about a dozen or so years ago. I had just finished launching Zee’s education channel (in my first stint with the group), I was exhausted – physically, mentally and emotionally – and i took…
Different Views
November 12, 2015Mumbai is not, what you might call, a beautiful city. It has none of the splendour of a Delhi, or the old world charm of a Kolkata or Chennai, it probably is not as hep as parts of Bangalore and Pune. But,…
On Tolerance
November 7, 2015so, there was a march today, to prove that India was tolerant. and, while on the face of it, it was a good idea – who can disagree with the concept of ‘marching for tolerance’, it has gone wrong in terms of…