Indore, the City of Namkeen Submerged

Indore seems to be shedding tears, lots of them. Heavy rains have left many parts of the city submerged and life has been thrown out of gear. To top that there are local police, Army and Airforce personnel streaming all over. While the defense officials are there to help the...

Hong Kong

That skyline is the reason why I fell in love with Hong Kong. Whenever someone asks – “How is Hong Kong?”, I always reply – “Hong Kong is a cleaner, taller, bigger and brighter version of Bombay”. Both were British bred cities and maybe that’s the reason Hong Kong reminds...

A Pig that Cannot Fly is Just a Pig

Recently, I moved into a new apartment because the extortion, disguised as “security down payment of Rs 70,000” which we had to pay was simply irresistible. So I took some loans, personal and business, paid the money to creepy, greasy landlord and moved in. But it became worthwhile when I...

City Palace – Udaipur

Streets of Nathdwara

Guess Which State is Most Unsafe for Women in India?

The recent sexual assault of a 22 year photojournalist by five men in one of the ‘better areas’ of Mumbai has stirred a debate on the safety of women across India. We decided to check out the statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in their report ‘Crime...

KR Market, Bangalore

Photographs from the few photowalks I used to go on with other photographers from Infosys, Bangalore. Windows, especially broken windows provide great frames for shooting people.

An Egyptian Sojourn

I consider myself extremely lucky to have visited Egypt which is home to one of the oldest civilizations of the world. Here’s a sneak peak into my journey with some of my favourite photographs from the journey. This dates back to January 2010. Taken early in the morning, the winter...

In News!!!

There used to be Telangana protests because A.P. ministers wanted to create Telangana. Now protests are being held because Telangana has been created. There is no reason to worry though, the House continues to function as normal as ever (for the uninitiated, it got disrupted yet again). Lok Sabha Speaker,...

City of Joy?

I chose to write about this nondescript article because it offended me. It showed an ugly side of the city I so proudly boast about hailing from. I have been fond of Mumbai ever since I first moved here. But Calcutta (that’s right, no right-wing extremists object to it being...

DDCA’s meeting revives hope

The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) Sports Working Committee meeting last week invited much attention. The newly elected Sports Working Committee (SWC) of the DDCA decided to do a first in calling upon players (current and former), umpires, coaches and women cricketers. A couple of key members of World...

Meeting of Waters

Today, while I am leafing through the pages of book “Journey of the Pink Dolphins”, I read an amazing fact about the amazon river…I want 2 share a glimpse of it with u… It is one natural wonders of the Brazil. The two tributaries of the River Amazon, river Rio...

House hunting

There’s this massive tree outside our house, it covers every window that we have, on all sides. Although it was pruned in the last millenium to allow sunlight into the house above ours, that hasn’t stopped fauna from stopping by now and then. Last weekend, a pair of parrots stopped...

Shot for the moon and ended in a black hole

A Recruiter’s Woes, Part II: Cover Letters

Or should I say, the need for none. Two weeks ago, my company decided to post an entry-level analyst job opening on a MBA-specific niche website, anonymously. I uploaded it on Friday, 2 pm. By 6:30 pm, when I logged out, I already had 50 profiles in my inbox. By...

Gamna, the Scrap Dealer

Gamna, a raddiwallah (scrap dealer) that I met at Bopal village, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad in Gujarat. I shot his picture around 7 in the evening. Excited as he was, he asked, “Meri photu akhbaar mein chapegi?” (Will my picture appear in the newspapers?) As his eyes sparkled in...

Watch this Video of MIT Sloan, Engineering and Urban Planning Alumni Describing Life at School

“We are supremely nerdy and unapologetic about it… We had ice-cream study breaks at MIT like there are breaks at any other college. But we’d make our own ice-cream using liquid nitrogen right on the spot. So we were really, really nerdy.” If you’ve ever considered studying at the Massachusetts...

Delhi is Fine, I Suppose

Delhi heat is unbearable, if you do not have any ready change on you. By the time one scrimmages around for the change, the ice cream cone in one’s hand reduces into a gooey mess. Of course, this did not happen to me. I was just standing there at the...

Rapists and others to be blamed

The Mumbai gangrape rape case will take centre stage for a few days now. The police will or will not find all the accused (can definitely in 24 hours if it wants to). The political parties have started their blame game. Media has planned a couple of protests. And this...

Public toilets are not so public

There is possibly no urban Indian who has not visited a public toilet sometime. In Mumbai these toilets take on a different character. No, am not talking about how badly maintained they are and how the attendants may fleece people – all that is a given in Mumbai. The ‘Ladies’...