A fire broke out in Mumbai this afternoon.
A major fire broke out at a plot near ROLEX Restaurant Junction in Mumbai this afternoon. The flow of traffic at the ROLEX Restaurant Junction is relentless. Cars, motorbikes, bicycles and handcarts etc. creep in on you from all directions. I was working in the area when all of a sudden; I noticed black fumes [...]
Top 10 travel memories of 2011.
10. Dam Square, Amsterdam 09. Hostel Tyn, Prague 08. Réquista, a village in the south of France 07. Louvre, Paris 06. Biking through Waterland in the Netherlands 05. Powder Tower, Prague 04. Prinsengracht Canal in Amsterdam 03. Old Town Square, Prague 02. Supper along the Champs-Élysées 01. Basilique du Sacré-Cœur 10. Street entertainment at Dam [...]
Alkmaar and Edam… Cheese towns in Holland
Holland makes some fantastic cheese. It’s a huge source of income for some of the smaller villages in the Netherlands. Alkmaar for example is a train ride away from Amsterdam. One can fetch a free map of the city outside the railway station at Alkmaar. It’ll have the route to the weekly cheese market chalked [...]
The Laughing Life at Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam
I came upon The Laughing Life at Dam Square on a glorious summer evening in Amsterdam. Small crowds of people had already gathered around them. I joined in, making the odd photo. I heard them play a couple of songs and thought to myself that this was one of the better street shows I’d witnessed. [...]
Amsterdam Roots Festival
Last week, I read a note on facebook; it said that the Amsterdam Roots Festival has been nominated the Best Music Festival in 2011. I’d spent a day at the festival; June 26 I think it was. I had a good time. Earlier that week, I’d been to the LaMère festival in neighbouring Almere. I’d [...]
Lalbaugcha Raja in 2011
Lalbaugcha Raja has a lot of history behind it dating back to pre independence times. Most of the major textile mills of Bombay stood in this neighbourhood. Mill workers lived here in tenements or chawls. One fine day, the owners of these mills decided to either shut down operations or move elsewhere as property prices [...]
Of Historical Significance
We’ve all come upon John Lennon. His writings and music has been an inspiration to the freethinking and liberal minded. During the times of the communist regime in the Czech Republic, students used to scribble anti-communist slogans on a wall in Prague. Soon after the death of Lennon, students scribbled the lyrics of the song [...]
Estadi Olimpic
Fuji GS645S Professional rangefinder camera and ILFORD DELTA PROFESSIONAL 100 ISO 120mm black and white film. It is always a great honour for any city to host a mega sporting event. A few days after all of the drama etc. that surrounded the Commonwealth Games of 2010, I happened to pass by the stadium that [...]
The Prague Astronomical Clock
Fuji GS645S Professional rangefinder camera and ILFORD DELTA PROFESSIONAL 100 ISO 120mm black and white film. Hundreds if not thousands gather in front of the Prague Astronomical Clock Prague Orloj. I made this from atop the clock tower on the day of its 600th anniversary on the 9th of October, 2010! In another life, I [...]
Malhar in 2009
In Bombay, the cinema, the mall etc. prohibit photography within the premises. Government buildings &the railway station, the post office etc. Inside buses &trains too. Some student volunteers take time off to shake a leg on stage in between events at St. Xavier’s auditorium during Malhar on the 30th of August, 2009. &the rationale: political [...]
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