Gajan or Shivagajan is a Hindu religious festival celebrated mostly in West Bengal. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Choitro or Chaitra (last month of Bengali calendar) continuing till the end of the Bengali year with Charak Puja. Participants of this festival are known as…
I choose the betta fishes theme because they are so cute and colorful they live in normal water and show their colors. The betta was first discovered in Southeast Asia. Making its home in rice paddies, drainage ditches, and the warm flood plains of the region, the betta became accustomed…
Pottery in Indian Villages presents a wonderful amalgamation of concept, design, and execution. There are many villages in India that are famous for producing extraordinary pottery products. The Indians are experts in molding clay with their hands to form various things of daily utility, toys, and deities of worship since…
Traveling is something that I enjoy thoroughly. The excitement of seeing new places, new traditions, and the natural beauty in that region is something that I haven’t lost ever since I started. We learn how to appreciate and live life as we experience both good and bad times through such…
“Shrinath Veer Mhaskoba” is one of the forms of Lord Shiva. It is worshiped by the Shepard community in the western Maharashtra region. The villagers of “Veer’ Village near Saswad town of Pune Dist., people from the region gather at the Temple for the God’s Marriage & the celebration goes…
The International Kolkata Book Fair (formerly Calcutta Book Fair) is a winter fair in Kolkata. It is a unique book fair in the sense of not being a trade fair—the book fair is primarily for the general public rather than whole-sale distributors. It is the world’s largest non-trade book fair,…
Camel racing traditionally known as the sport of the Forefathers, is held every year in the city of Al Shahaniya where Qatar’s popular camel racetrack is located. The small device on the camel’s back is a wireless whip controlled by the owner that is driving on the parallel side of…
Infinite number of underground tunnels snake below us. It is a gigantic netting of drilled holes encased with crushed rocks, dust and every other thing which lives under our feet. The people who make our lives simpler and are one of the mega driving forces behind the advancement of technology…
Behala Baganbari – a mere place in the heart of south Kolkata, was not a famous place at all. An initiative taken a few days ago makes this place a well-known one within the region of Kolkata & abroad. “Behala Art Fest” (A group of young talented artists) and the…
94 years old Shantinath Bannerjee, from the suburban town Belgharia, India, after completing an instrument technician course from the Benaras Hindu University, joined Omega Watch Company as a technician. Gradually, analog camera repairing became his arena of affection. Shantinath made miniature polishing, grinding, and lathe machines by his own for…
After a wait of 25 long months, when the world seemed to be slowly going back to the “old normal”, we decided to make a trip to visit our hometowns and bid adieu to the year with our parents. When everyone started thinking that the battle was won, the Christmas…
This is the first ever wall art in Kolkata which focuses entirely on the theme of Bengali Wedding. A Bengali Wedding is something which includes various things to complete a full wedding ceremony and every thing is drawn to the walls of the slum.This is a slum of Behala where…
We are a group of 5 Polish photographers who form the Nanga Pictures photo collective. Composed of of the collective consists of: Sławek Kamiński, Aleksander Majdański, Mirosław Pieślak, Marta Rybicka and Maciej Stanik. We would like to introduce you to our joint project “HEROES”. It is a tribute to everyone…
The streets of Dhaka have always been a great interest of mine, especially the streets in Old Dhaka. These streets have such character and an aura about them which I find very fascinating. The thing about streets at night is sometimes even the most ordinary scene can look very dramatic…
Varanasi represents the colorful and fascinating India of your dream with rituals of life to death being parallelly performed on the Stairs/ ghats. Varanasi city has 88 ghats, among all the ghats in Benaras, Dashashwamedh ghat is the most famous ghat. Stair covers the majority of ghats. All the ghats…
There was a wintry evening when I reached one of the most vibrant streets of Kolkata in search of my new story. Night photography has always been one of my favorite passages to explore as I do believe photographing a city at night allows us to explore the city with…