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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in AISD, Amani, art, Artist, Ashit, Bangladesh, ceremony, Dhaka, Exhibition, Hindu, Mannat, Music, Ujwala Prabhu on Jan 30th, 2009
Started out with a “Friday Afternoon Art Fair” at AIS-D… ….then to view an exhibition by 11 artists [which includes a couple of friends: Ujwalaand Ashit] who have put up their prints for all to view after a Print Making workshop – the exhibition is called “Mechanical Fantasy” at Britto… [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Buriganga, Destruction, Heather Pillar, Heritage, Hindu, mosque, river, Ruins, Sadarghat, Sonargaon, Stein Naevdal, temple on Apr 26th, 2008
A trip to Sonargaon, around 30 KM from Dhaka city…. the ancient Capital now in ruins. Like a ghost town, the homeless living in abandoned buildings. Buildings that were probably majestic and stately at one time, now crumbling in neglect, robbed of their ornate carved doors and windows, full of rubbish and the homeless… pathetic [...]