so walking down the old part of town in an otherwise bustling metropolis was really a pleasant surprise.
charcoal grilled arabic food.
roasted coffee beans.
cool breeze across the dhow.
…and then almost out of nowhere, came the damn pigeons
rajasthan, again
•June 14, 2011 • 3 Comments
a ride between the last of last year and the first of this…
felt lonely in parts and insanely rejuvenated in most…
touching 2 years since the mountains were hit…
but this year…
…amen
untitled
•October 22, 2010 • 1 Comment
dhobi ghats at sewa nagar
jawaharlal nehru stadium, new delhi
durga pujo
•October 18, 2010 • 4 Comments
first lot of images from the durga immersion
this is the only day where it rings through that the good old bengali aunts and uncles once belonged to crazy ’60s!
yamuna, new delhi
bricks
•October 17, 2010 • Leave a Comment
hutments for construction workers building the largest residential complex in haryana
gurgaon, haryana
dhobighaat
•October 16, 2010 • 2 Comments
just happened to bump into this place while walking past nehru stadium
sewa nagar, new delhi
Notes from a Beautiful City
•October 9, 2010 • 5 Comments
A short that we just pulled off under the Black Ticket Films banner with Open Space. It loads in a jiffy so do have a watch!
Notes from a Beautiful City
9 minutes
Being hosted in India’s capital city of Delhi, the Commonwealth Games 2010 has found the most expensive and grandest venue in its history. While Delhi was being dressed up for this 12-day extravaganza, there were millions who were being quietly evicted and hidden behind the glitter of this mega-event. ’Notes from a Beautiful City’ explores the many stories that remained untold as seen through the eyes of its invisible citizens…
Research and Edit:
Rintu Thomas
Photography and Sound:
Sushmit Ghosh
Produced by:
Open Space & Black Ticket Films
the commonwealth games
•September 29, 2010 • 1 Comment
an auto-rickshaw driver waits for a CWG induced jam to clear…
outside safdarjung airport, new delhi
rally
•September 29, 2010 • 2 Comments
overheard at the indian national rally championship held outside jodhpur, rajasthan
villager 1: what is going on here?
villager 2: some people are driving cars
villager 1: so why have they blocked off our roads here?
villager 2: they drive very fast
villager 1: why don’t they do all this nonsense in the city?
villager 2: they already have some foreign people doing this there….those game things…
villager 1: you mean the kaam-wel games…yes, i know about that
(silence)
(one rally car races past)
villager 1: fools…
(walks back towards his village)
five tin sheets
•September 27, 2010 • 1 Comment
i live in a room
that is five tin sheets put together…
eight people
all from the same village…
delhi is a strange city
but we don’t mind it…
it’s certainly not home
(pause)
i miss my grandfather’s paddy fields…we used to fly kites there…
(pause)
but delhi is okay…not bad…
– Mohd. Rahim, 23 years old, working as a construction laborer in gurgaon
gunpowder
•September 27, 2010 • 3 Comments
wall outside the Gunpowder restaurant,
hauz khas, new delhi
marine drive
•September 4, 2010 • 7 Comments
i belted out the camera when i saw this man walking past me at marine drive…seemed oblivious to every one of us…somehow bombay seemed ingrained in his soul…
when i look back at this image, it reminds me of joyce kilmer’s poem ‘madness’…
The lonely farm, the crowded street,
The palace and the slum,
Give welcome to my silent feet
As, bearing gifts, I come.
Last night a beggar crouched alone,
A ragged helpless thing;
I set him on a moonbeam throne –
Today he is a king.
Last night a king in orb and crown
Held court with splendid cheer;
Today he tears his purple gown
And moans and shrieks in fear.
Not iron bars, nor flashing spears,
Not land, nor sky, nor sea,
Nor love’s artillery of tears
Can keep mine own from me.
Serene, unchanging, ever fair,
I smile with secret mirth
And in a net of mine own hair
I swing the captive earth…
bombay bombay
•August 31, 2010 • 2 Comments
the bombay locals are here
for the near and dear
they make life easy
but in a weird sort of way
i like these locals…
(bunch of lines penned by a 9-year old friend who lives in mahim…uses the local everyday to travel up and back from school)
panorama’s here!
•August 28, 2010 • 1 Comment
back from a blogging sabbatical…!
watch out for more scratchy, soiled panoramic 35mm images….
