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Quintessentially Indian: Politics, Bollywood & Cricket with a good, strong cuppa

This quaint tea stall in a vegetable market in Aurangabad never ceases to amaze me. News and tea are inseparable almost everywhere in India. An invaluable insight gathered from this photograph after I...

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Living in a void

Are we all living in the giant dark energy of the void? For the moment this quote from Ezra Pound says it better than any attempt I make to explain what it means to be living in the null and void.  I...

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Religion: does it unify or divide this world?

Two nuns walk down the street just before sundown on a rainy evening. Though Christians form a fraction of the entire population in the Nilgiris, churches are omnipresent in Ooty. The bloodiest wars in...

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Meenakshi Temple Madurai: Did someone say they would bomb this place?

Picture this: A man called Johnson has an illicit relationship with a woman. Another man called Satish objects to this. Irked by the objection, Johnson informs the police that Satish has planted a bomb...

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On the move

A gregarious camel on the move near Giza, Egypt. Seemed kind of funny when we came neck to neck on the road. On a cold wintry ferry ride of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, with seagulls moving coast to coast....

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Dark, dingy but full of hope

Ride a local train in Mumbai and you can see the best and worst of living conditions in the city at one go. The spanking glass and concrete high rises contrast with the old crumbly Mumbai in a...

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Street photography in a sea of faceless Indians

On a visit to Orissa in search of the elusive Dongria Kondh tribe, I chanced upon a weekly market in a remote village called Kakriguma. I was curious about what a flea market in a village populated...

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Faces of Orissa: street photography, part 2

As I write this, a month or two after my visit to this village market in Orissa, there has been a flood that has claimed 39 lives leaving more than 3.3 million of the population marooned in knee-deep...

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Pondicherry, a certain sense of Gallic glory gone by.

On a whirlwind trip to Pondicherry, I visited a quaint little museum in its old parts to better understand some of the charm the city exudes for the hordes of tourists it attracts. From the tiniest...

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Pondicherry: some street side portraits

A man who looked like a daily wager at a street side tea stall. He seemed like a regular here. Pondy is a shoppers paradise. You can spend a great deal of time in the charming little shops  dotting the...

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