ऐसा भी हो सकता था...

तारे ज़मीन पर...

Trigger-happy with my digicam, as I go around clicking these growing crops, a thought comes to mind...
...that 20-30-40-50yrs hence (when we are gone) they will occupy the space which we leave behind...

it has been a long - and worthwhile - journey...

This will remain one of those precious pics (and moment) for me... I mean, to gets this opportunity to photograph the Merlin/ Gandalf/ Dumbledore /Bramha... of XLRI (all rolled into one:) !!!

Wounds.. some heal, some don't!

...till death do us part!

मुझसे वादा है एक कविता का, मिलेगी मुझको..

मुझसे वादा है एक कविता का,
मिलेगी मुझको..

डूबती नब्जों में जब
दर्द को नींद आने लगे,
ज़र्द सा चहरा लिए
चाँद उफ़क तक पहुंचे,

दिन अभी पानी में हो,
और रात किनारे के करीब,
ना अँधेरा, ना उजाला
ना आधी रात हो, न दिन

जिस्म जब ख़त्म हो,
रूह को सांस आये...

...मुझसे वादा है एक कविता का,
मिलेगी मुझको |
-गुलज़ार

...of fairytales, myths and archetypes

Look! who came home today!...

Intruder!!... in a world of reflections

Travellers... to nowhere...

a meeting in progress...

..world through the rose-tinted glasses

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...

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...

...travelling "Executive Class"

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passing by a porous border...

it was an interesting feeling to be told by a roadside board that one was being "watched"!!

साथ, साथ...

the divide...

a fairy tale... just about to unfold

er... what is this all about??!!

through the looking glass... in a world below the surface

oh... just a lamp in a street corner!

this is how confusion begins... :0)

मौसम-ए-गुल में अगर शाख़ से टूटे होते...

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)

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: