Manikarnika Ghat is one of the most historical ghats present in all of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh which I had the fortune to visit. People from all over the world travel here in the hopes of giving their deceased loved ones a holy goodbye, one which sends them off to heaven.…
India is to celebrate International Yoga day on 21st June. This ceremony is celebrated annually every year by the Government of India and The Victoria Memorial Authority. However this year (2021) this program has been suspended due to pandemic covid 19. Every year a lot of people used to come…
I put a lot of effort into planning every single photograph especially for my series in Black and White that I take up as Personal Projects. This is the series of Black and White Photographs which has been shot in my own town, Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, India. Shimla, which…
Kalinarayanpur Junction, the most peaceful railway station of Sealdah main division of the Indian Railway. The serenity and calmness of this place have made it so unique. This railway station is situated at Kalinarayanpur village, my birthplace and residence about 75km far from the mega-city Kolkata. The daily workers and…
Cyclone Yass (the name given by Oman) struck the coastal area of West Bengal and Odisha on 28th May 2021. The landfall causes a very severe cyclonic storm, Yaas began at 9 am on Wednesday near the Dhamra port in Odisha’s Bhadrak district. The wind speed during landfall was at…
Tusu Festival is a folk festival held on the last day of the Bengali month of Poush, i.e., Makar Sankranti, so also known as Makar Parav (meaning Makar festival) in local languages. It is a unifying form of local common faith and the joy of the harvest. associated with harvesting.…
The second wave of Coronavirus in India has fallen so heavily that it exceeded the daily infection and total infection rate of the first wave in the year 2020 and so far the highest in the world. The spread of the Coronavirus this time is very high in few States…
The first few days after I was tested Covid Positive was a journey through different thoughts and stress. Anxiety about the disease and its symptoms, the difficulty of being isolated, fear of something going to happen shook me. Life suddenly shrunk from the vast world I had until then, to…
While we battle the second wave of the dreaded Coronavirus, mid-April also marks the beginning of the Hindu calendar year and is celebrated across the length & breadth of India. Characteristic of the Indian cultural mélange, Hindus in various states of India usher in the new year in their own…
Covid19, a name that never existed before 2020, but not unfamiliar anymore. Back in March last year when the covid outbreak just started rearing I had to lock myself inside the home like millions of others. Me and my son, we started living a strange life filled with fear, anxiety,…
I couldn’t go anywhere for months due to the coronavirus crisis. But in the end, the outbreak subsided and soon, everything was back to being normal again. I had already decided to visit Hampi once the lockdown ceased, so we planned for the trip and left. I visited Hampi for…
While speaking of Holi, the first names that cross our minds are Mathura, Vrindavan, or Barsana. And why not? These destinations have been giving away photo opportunities to thousands of photographers across the globe since the end of the previous century. But, when it comes to Kolkata- the City of…
The people of world are in a distressed condition from physically, mentally, economically, socially due to outbreak of Covid- 19 virus. The world is suffering with huge work loss and poverty resulting to overall sadness coupled with depression in present time due to the pandemic situation arises out of COVID-…
We are stuck. Stuck inside our boxes. Deeply disturbed by it. The 4 walls that we used to stare at, are staring back at us. The floor, the microwave, dining table, sofa, vacuum cleaner, shower, ash-tray, they all are sick of us. We were not meant to spend so much…
COVID-19 is the biggest global event—and challenge—of our lifetimes. As such, it is changing human attitudes and behaviours today and forcing organizations to respond. However, the need to respond won’t end when the virus’s immediate threat eventually recedes. In the future, we will find a return to normalcy in many…
We didn’t see this coming. It landed on us. I was sitting in one of our favourite hangout spots when a news article popped up on my Phone screen that read –“ WHO declares CORONA as a global Pandemic. Schools and Colleges are to be shut until further notice.”. WELL…