A fabulous trip to Mandawa in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan. On the journey from Delhi to Mandawa a group of brightly clad Rajasthani women carrying Ganga Jal to a temple, the tall gateway to Mandawa town so narrow that a bus can just about scrape through, camel and donkey carts have right of way [...]
Category Archive for 'Heritage'
A quick one taken from the new flyover that connects from Nehru Stadium to Sarai Kale Khan, of one of the old monuments of Nizamuddin all lit up at night.
Photo book published – “Walk Through Sonargaon”
Posted in Anil Advani, Bangladesh, Book, Heritage, Hindu, Photography, published, Sonargaon on Jun 18th, 2010
“WALK THROUGH SONARGAON” For Jyoti & Mannat. My book is now available online. A collection of photographs from 4 visits to Panam Nagar / Sonargaon in Bangladesh is online at the print-on-demand publishing service Blurb. The book was fairly easy to format with their software called BookSmart. The upload of the entire book was seamless [...]
SoFoBoMo 2010 – book done and online
Posted in Bangladesh, Book, Heritage, ISSUU, Photography, published, Ruins, SoFoBoMo, Sonargaon on Jun 12th, 2010
SoFoBoMo 2010 book completed today. A great experience, though I did miss the company of a friend who was to join-in but finally could not. This, in a way, limited the extent of my photo taking – though I still do have a large collection of images to use for a [later] series on [...]
Sonargaon revisited
Posted in Heritage, Hindu, mist, Ruins, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, sunrise, temple on Nov 22nd, 2009
22nd Nov 09. Morning trip to Sonargaon village with Stein. We intended to get there well before 7am so that we could scout out a vantage point to watch and photograph the sunrise. A slight delay, but we still got there in time to watch the sky turn magenta at pre-dawn to a grey pink [...]
Pohela Boishakh 2009 [1416]
Posted in Bangladesh, Dhaka, Heritage, mela, street photography on Apr 14th, 2009
SHUVO NOBO BORSHO! It is the 1st day of the first month Baishak year 1416 as per the Bengali calendar. A Happy New Year! Spent the early part of the morning with a group of local photographers hanging-out at Dhaka University and the Institute of Fine Arts [Charukala]. Great festivities and literally millions of [...]