August 9, 2010
August 8, 2010
July 31, 2010
July 30, 2010
July 27, 2010
पथिक स्वयं हूँ, पथ भी हूँ मैं...
पथिक स्वयं हूँ, पथ भी हूँ मैं..
...अपने पथ-चिन्हों के पीछे
खोज रहा हूँ अपना साया
शायद मिल पाऊँगा इक दिन...
'गर रहे सलामत ये पागलपन...
...अपने पथ-चिन्हों के पीछे
खोज रहा हूँ अपना साया
शायद मिल पाऊँगा इक दिन...
'गर रहे सलामत ये पागलपन...
July 24, 2010
छोटी छोटी छितराई यादें, बिछी हुई हैं लम्हों की लॉन पर...
"छोटी छोटी छितराई यादें, बिछी हुई हैं लम्हों की लॉन पर,
नंगे पैर उन पर चलते चलते, इतनी दूर आ गए हैं,
कि अब भूल गए हैं, जूते कहाँ उतारे थे...."
Somehow, in my mind, these verses by Amitabh Bhattacharya (Udaan) were just written for this photograph...
नंगे पैर उन पर चलते चलते, इतनी दूर आ गए हैं,
कि अब भूल गए हैं, जूते कहाँ उतारे थे...."
Somehow, in my mind, these verses by Amitabh Bhattacharya (Udaan) were just written for this photograph...
July 20, 2010
passing by a porous border...
it was an interesting feeling to be told by a roadside board that one was being "watched"!!
July 18, 2010
July 5, 2010
June 20, 2010
June 17, 2010
June 15, 2010
the comfort of knowing "where you are" .. :)
knowing "where you are" is such a comforting feeling... till you climb down four-stories (in the morning... where you had checked late last night) and see this on the notice-board :0)
June 10, 2010
oh!... just another Indian village
though.. perhaps this was not "just another Indian village" - it was far more prosperous than many of the others which I had chance to visit in the past few years:
June 6, 2010
uncertain childhoods... a photo-essay
Last month, I met some very delightfully chirpy kids in the most unanticipated of milieu...
They come to this "school" in the evening - when their mothers drop them there, and go to "work"
... as a part of the "Sonagachi Project" - run by Women's Interlink Foundation
Sonagachi, being one of the largest red-light districts in Asia, based in Kolkata...
Some of them - the girls - I found (with a sense of happiness/gratitude) are able to escape their destiny and make it to the "Homes" run by WIF.. and are able to find love of having a home and a family...
They get training in crafts, cooking, dance... (some get married, and some find jobs):
.. the "Homes" give a life not only to the Kids of Sonagachi - but also to those who get rescued from trafficking and domestic sexual violence... and make them 'individuals' to face the life with a confidence...
The day I visited one of the "Homes" was the Mothers' Day... it was a humbling experience for me witness these encounters of lost lives:
I came back happy that there was a hope for these lost childhoods... but with the memories of some faces/eyes, which will keep haunting me for ages to come...
They come to this "school" in the evening - when their mothers drop them there, and go to "work"
... as a part of the "Sonagachi Project" - run by Women's Interlink Foundation
Sonagachi, being one of the largest red-light districts in Asia, based in Kolkata...
Some of them - the girls - I found (with a sense of happiness/gratitude) are able to escape their destiny and make it to the "Homes" run by WIF.. and are able to find love of having a home and a family...
They get training in crafts, cooking, dance... (some get married, and some find jobs):
.. the "Homes" give a life not only to the Kids of Sonagachi - but also to those who get rescued from trafficking and domestic sexual violence... and make them 'individuals' to face the life with a confidence...
The day I visited one of the "Homes" was the Mothers' Day... it was a humbling experience for me witness these encounters of lost lives:
I came back happy that there was a hope for these lost childhoods... but with the memories of some faces/eyes, which will keep haunting me for ages to come...
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