“There is a door to our heart, And a window to our soul. So many beautiful sights, Have been seen out that window, And so many places, That door leads to. Gaze out that window, And open the door And it will give you everything.” A house is a building,…
Tshechu is an integral part of the cultural and spiritual life of the Bhutanese people. It is an annual religious festival held in each districts of Bhutan; according to Tibetan lunar calendar it is celebrated on the tenth day of a month. The dates of the celebration of Tshechuvary from…
I spent my childhood in a small town named pabna, bank of river Padma. But few years later, my family moved to capital. When I recall my old memories, I find myself somewhere near the river Padma gazing a full moon! My school days were passed on the bank of…
It took me more than seven years to bring out this story. It started one evening when I stumbled upon a set of photographs which I had taken while my wife was battling cancer. I don’t know why I took those images, perhaps I wanted to freeze a dying moment…
This is Varanasi, but not the one I used to perceive. While having lassi, a sweet Indian drink made from yogurt, seating in a tiny restaurant in an alley of Varanasi near Manikarnika Ghat, I witnessed that people were carrying dead bodies for cremation and chorused “Ram Naam Satya Hain”…
Our precious Life. “We want to be normal (sane) like you.” This is what they wanted from me from their world. “I want to be normal, normal and normal.” These are the words of the pure heart. Words coming from mind which we call to be not in control. I…
I must personally admit initially when i started out exploring my passion for street photography i was very shy as a person and i always thought it’s not polite to photograph unknown people. I always wondered how do street photographers take photos of complete strangers without permission and not get…
A story about a girl who has been rescuing stray dogs in Yangon, Myanmar. There are about ten thousand stray dogs in Yangon. The official policy of the municipality is to poison them. Last August, I created the Golden Heart Rescue Group. It has become a full time job. We…
Phulia is a small town in the Nadia District of West Bengal, approximately a hundred kilometers from the main city of Kolkata. It bodes clusters of Tant, Jamdani and Dhakai; the latter two found majorly in parts of Bangladesh now. The art form showcases intricate and detailed hand-stitched work from…
Bishwa Ijtema is and annual global Islamic Congregation held at Tongi, Bangladesh by the river Turag. It lasts three days and is attended by over five million Muslims, making it one of the largest congregations after the Hajj to Mecca and the gathering of Muslims in Karbala, Iraq. Devotees from…
Empty Roads to Silent Doors, Hidden Wars to Graffiti Walls. In the name of Allah, Stop it. People ask us what is our dream? We say a “HOME” said one of the refugee I met in Israel. Life is difficult, sometimes we only wish to be alive and nothing more…
The disappearance of the travelling cinema in the outskirts of our cities can be alluded to several factors – the least of which is not the real estate boom because vacant land is swiftly being built upon. But, seen along with the rise of the multiplex, it also suggests the…
In 2003, a group called the Durbar MahilaSamanwaya Committee started a residential home for kids from various brothel colonies at Baruipur, a small town near Kolkata. The group, long active in advocating for the rights of brothel workers in Kolkata, felt the need to do something for the children of…
In Bengal, Gajan and Charak stand unique in the scenario of Bengal festivals and in today’s modern age. Hindus celebrate the festival mainly on the last two days of the month of Chaitra, just before Bengali New Year. Basically this falls around mid-April. Although it is celebrated mostly in rural…
A Photo Series from Mona Hoobehfekr. Quiet strangely, Mona has decided to show the makeup phenomenon currently happening with the Iranian Woman. More like a diptych, Mona has captured both the portrait of the woman & the entire makeup kit in a two parallel photographs. This series reveals us the…
This series of photographs have been shot in a Cast Iron Foundry of Howrah. The workers here are mostly Illiterate and mostly backward. They work in a temperature of 47° C. A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a…