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…
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…
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…
Fog is an interesting thing in the true sense to work on. Foggy weather in the early morning at Kolkata maidan is such an interesting scene for photo enthusiasts. Normally December to February these three months are termed as the winter season in Kolkata. In these months a dense fog…
Have you ever wondered where inspiration comes from? This is the question that journalists like to ask people of different professions in different variations. Artists get inspiration from anything, starting to create, they initially describe that around them to create something great, you need to fantasize, make letters or figures…
The story begins at midnight while I could not sleep due to my new child was not sleeping. He slept in the midnight in my arms and then I tried to futilely sleep on the bed. After passing half an hour I realized corporate pressure, my new hectic life chained…