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Am I cold, numb and heartless
That’s a question, which at times is thrown at me by the silent face of onlookers when I am in middle of my work….. Life of a photojournalist is an interesting and a privileged one. You get to visit certain places, meet people and frame them in a photograph which you otherwise would never have [...]
Protest in a different hue
One man’s art is another man’s porn; We’ve heard this statement quite often and there definitely is lot of truth in it. In the state of Gujarat, which has witnessed enormous violation of fundamental constitutional rights where people’s freedom of expression has been denied, an artist being arrested for displaying his art is definitely [...]
When the sound lets you see the truth.
Vaseem, a 22 year old aspiring journalist who is also visually impaired, uses JAWS(a software which aids the visually impaired by translating text to sound) for his studies and browsing on the computer. Vaseem along with many of his visually impaired friends stay in Samarthanam, an NGO dedicated to improving lives of the disabled. It [...]
No Indians allowed. Only foreigners
I and couple of my friends undertook a trip to Pondicherry to spend our Ugadi weekend in this coastal holiday destination. It was a road trip which was decided on the spur of the moment with the intention to break free from the rush of the stressful life we lead in Bangalore city. Hence, our [...]
Boulevard of broken dreams
The man, machine and a boulevard which is history… Surprised that we just walk on. May be helpless, but we just walk on. We walk on the disappearing boulevard, As the city, they say has to move forward
Me, my solitude and Raju’s 350D – Part 2
Its been nearly two weeks of probation period at VT. Me and Raju’s camera (canon 350 D) did get to see some amount of life in Bangalore which was previously unknown to us. From Page 1 to Page 3 we have got to see a great deal of Bangalore. Sometimes boring stories and sometimes stories [...]
Evil Smoke
Evil SmokeOriginally uploaded by travelling writer. Helmets can save you only from the road accidents. It can’t save you from cancer. For such evils, its only your will power which can fight it out. Some facts Half the male tuberculosis deaths in India are caused by smoking, and three quarters of the smokers who become [...]
Do they really mean it..
The Karnataka flag is seen hoisted at the entrance of one of the popular wholesale malls of Bangalore during the recent protests over the judgement given by the Tribunal for Cauvery river water sharing issue. This was a common site in front of big commercial complexes, supermarkets, malls,multiplexes IT and BPO company office buildings in [...]
Irfan
IrfanOriginally uploaded by travelling writer. Date: November 4th,2006. Place:Russel Market, Bangalore I thought child labour was banned in my country. But poverty I guess forces children to work. Irfan, works along with his friend and another lady who runs this service of cleaning prawns for customers after they have struck a deal with one of [...]