http://nishantratnakar.com Documentary Photographer | Wedding Photographer | Multimedia Producer | Bangalore, India Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:15:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/a-classroom-experiment-on-soundslides/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/a-classroom-experiment-on-soundslides/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:25 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/?p=755 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Multimedia, audio, video… seems to be/is the emerging mantra for photojournalists. Convergence of different mediums have created a whole new world of opportunities for visual story-telling. Also, from this year World Press Photo has instituted a new contest to recognize multimedia photojournalism. Multimedia is here to stay. This multimedia slideshow was produced by me as [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/a-classroom-experiment-on-soundslides/feed/ 0 http://nishantratnakar.com/portfolio/a-landmark-moment-for-the-happy-and-gay/ http://nishantratnakar.com/portfolio/a-landmark-moment-for-the-happy-and-gay/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:11:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/a-landmark-moment-for-the-happy-and-gay/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } The Indian mainstream media was busy preparing lead stories, that were to be made for July 4th, the American Independence day. So was the entertainment industry occupied with planning for parties, events, campaigns, promotions, sales, and all that is ‘page3′ for the same reason: Celebrating freedom! But, all that changed with a landmark judgment by [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/portfolio/a-landmark-moment-for-the-happy-and-gay/feed/ 9 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/notes-from-the-field-chikungunya/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/notes-from-the-field-chikungunya/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 19:25:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/notes-from-the-field-chikungunya/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Notes From the Field - Nishant Ratnakar Date: Monday, 11th May, 2009. Place: D J Halli near Bangalore. At a locality known as Moulana Compound: "Have any health officials visited your locality since the outbreak?" "No Sir. You are the first outsider to have stepped in here since we noticed the disease in our Compound" [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/notes-from-the-field-chikungunya/feed/ 16 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/people-in-news-part-1/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/people-in-news-part-1/#comments Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:25:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/people-in-news-part-1/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/people-in-news-part-1/feed/ 20 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/here-it%e2%80%99s-5-push-ups-for-every-4/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/here-it%e2%80%99s-5-push-ups-for-every-4/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:07:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/here-it%e2%80%99s-5-push-ups-for-every-4/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } At an ongoing inter-school cricket tournament, the boys of Bishop Cotton School embarked on a novel method to juice themselves up when playing against weak teams: A self-inflicted penalty for every boundary conceded. Narcissistic and full of piss. That is what you normally associate cricketers with, even amateur or budding ones in this cricket-mad nation. [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/here-it%e2%80%99s-5-push-ups-for-every-4/feed/ 24 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/her-long-drive-to-justice/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/her-long-drive-to-justice/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:33:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/her-long-drive-to-justice/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } You never know what sexual harassment does to a woman, do you? It made Venkata Lakshmi turn to the law books, while driving an auto to feed her family. “She didn’t charge me a rupee more than the auto meter,” said an incredulous young girl who travelled in an auto in the city recently. She? [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/her-long-drive-to-justice/feed/ 15 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/in-search-of-an-almost-myth/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/in-search-of-an-almost-myth/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:01:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/in-search-of-an-almost-myth/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } "We were told Ombattu Gudda didn’t exist. 28 kms and two days later, we live to tell the tale that it does." "A piece of advice to future visitors to Ombattu Gudda: Don’t go to this place without a map and a compass if you want to return to civilization on Monday. Get map# 48 [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/in-search-of-an-almost-myth/feed/ 13 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/from-uzbekistan-with-love/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/from-uzbekistan-with-love/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:50:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/from-uzbekistan-with-love/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } All credits to the Bangalore’s infamous rush hour traffic jam, I reached Palace grounds an hour later than the scheduled time I was to meet the ‘Russian artists’, who are in the city as part of the travelling Jumbo Circus troupe. My worst fears were true; most of the artists who were initially waiting for [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/from-uzbekistan-with-love/feed/ 6 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/saving-finding-actually-private-bahadur/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/saving-finding-actually-private-bahadur/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:54:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/saving-finding-actually-private-bahadur/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Circa July 2007 This is Men (Meen) Bahadur, a 10-year old Nepali kid at the Government Boys Home (Located close to both KIDWAI memorial hospital and NIMHANS) in Bangalore. Sitting behind him in the long corridor of the Boys home and crying, is a mentally disturbed inmate. I asked the officials why that kid was [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/saving-finding-actually-private-bahadur/feed/ 10 http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/lacklustre-bangalore-it-in-2007/ http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/lacklustre-bangalore-it-in-2007/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:17:00 +0000 nishant http://nishantratnakar.com/uncategorized/lacklustre-bangalore-it-in-2007/ #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; } Bangalore IT.in 2007 being held at BIEC(Bangalore International Exhibition Centre) has received a lukewarm response from the IT crowded Bangalore city. Here is an image of the ‘May I help You’ Help-desk which was of no help to the sparse crowd that had gathered courage to drive down to BIEC, located at 10th mile Tumkur [...]]]> http://nishantratnakar.com/blog/lacklustre-bangalore-it-in-2007/feed/ 4