Kolkata Maidan, a name that reminds the residents of this city of fresh air, sports, friendship, and a ton of nostalgia. Be it for early morning work or an evening stroll, nothing beats Maidan. This place holds a vivid range of picturesque landscape from season to season. In the winter…
Hello, I’m Riya Das, I’m a beginner photographer. I’ve started photography in 2018. I’m a learner. I love to take street moments and candids but in this quarantine, we aren’t able to go outside so I’m learning to self photograph my emotions and expressions. I got inspired by my father…
“You don’t need an ocean to feel like you’re drowning. You feel it, between your chest and your throat, the weight of it stretching you outside yourself, like a dead fish on the shore.“ I am a part of a time where an entire generation is stuck in a traffic…
But what would you do capturing the lives of these people? It’s not going to benefit you in any possible way! think about your own future. Think about your own progress…etc. Well, most of the time documentaries as such require a static level of mental strength combating against mindsets who…
Whenever Kashi is talked about, immediately we see the Ghats, the pure water of the river Ganga and the ancient alleyways of the city of Kashi. It is every photographers dream to go to Kashi to take photographs one day. It is indeed a rare opportunity to get to visit…
It had been more than one and a half months since we had been spending the lockdown at our home. And it’s very fatiguing as well as exhausting. Sitting at our homes 24×7 was not easy. So we decided to go on a sudden adventure. We reached at the resort…
Rammohan Mullick built it in 1855 in memory of his father Late Nimaicharan Mullick on the ground of the old ‘NoyanerGhat’ that their forefather NoyanchandMullick made before 1793. Down the river, next to the Jagannath Ghat of Sobharam Basak stands Nemai Mullick Ghat. Mullick Ghat took part in the history…
As per the updates, the environment is in better shape after the spread of COVID-19 and immobilizing of the society. But is really the environment on the advantageous side of this virus? To meet the increasing desperate demand for PPE single-use plastic is being used by most of the factories…
Why she whispers like water- Jibonando Das. Prologue: What is the song of the river? Does it really sing a song? To know this answer, I had to set up close ties with rivers spending more time over there! When I look back, I recall those uncountable enigmatic moments that…
Myanmar Army’s campaign of killing, rape, and arson in Rakhine, which has driven more than half a million Rohingya out of the country since late August. The UN is calling it the fastest displacement of people since the Rwanda genocide (1994). The influx of Rohingya refugees from northern parts of…
Land of the famous Odissi dance and within the district of Lord Jagganath’s Puri lies a small village of incredible artists, Raghurajpur. Home to over 300 artisans who practice various traditional art forms running down over generations These traditional art forms which are namely “pattachitra” (canvas painting), intricate palm leaf…
As urbanization has been already spreading over each and every corner of India bringing Social, economic, and cultural changes in India. It is very fascinating to see the rural part of India, still holding to their ancient old traditions and cultural activities. One such tradition is Chhau Dance. This dance…
India is a land with diverse culture and each region has its own and festivals they celebrate with pride and joy. Each year, a large number of devotees gather at Sagar island (West Bengal) on Makar Sankranti. They take a dip where the Hoogly river meets the Bay of Bengal…
Loneliness or Solitude is not only a human psychological phenomenon rather it may also exist in non-human materials in the environment. Sometimes loneliness of non-human materials co-exists with the human lives around us. Sometime we may miss them out or overlook them. Since my last 10 years of photography journey,…
If we don’t have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness. The Current pandemic has given me and many others a lot of time to sit and think, to explore ourselves and enjoy every little aspect of home and family and we…
Background: The sudden outbreak of Corona virus had restricted people into their homes. During lockdown period and subsequent times, different aspects of lockdown have been emerged, which are new to this world. I found people have lost their jobs, forced to remain far away from homes, begging for food and…