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Notes From the Field : Chikungunya
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" [...]
To Amma
Taarammaiyya, Thandu ThorammaiyyaDoorada Baanige yerida chandrana,Taarammaiyya, Thandu Thorammaiyya Nine of Amma’s (my maternal grandmother was fondly called as Amma by everyone who knew her) children and few of her fortunate grandchildren (including me) have spent their cradle years listening to this Kannada lullaby every night before being rocked into a sound sleep. Amma passed away [...]
A year spent behind the lens
October 12th, 2007 October 13th 2006, that’s one Friday which I’ll never forget in my life. A year later, I see that today happens to be a small milestone for me. I will be completing one year of my life as a ‘photojournalist’. Last year on that fateful Friday I bid farewell to the Corporate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]