That came later, the nostalgia.

While looking at some web-stats for this blog today, there was a strange reference in the «uncommon usage» section and so I followed the link to find where from this blog was being linked to. Actually, it was not linked to the web page I am talking about, but to a relatively unknown search-engine. OK, so they crawled my blog and listed it there - no big deal.... I was about to close the window and I stopped because I noticed a pattern, the search page had a lot to do with web pages and blogs with certain key-words only.... SIMLA was one. AhHa!

So I checked out a few of the links and then found two articles from the same website: Early Days and Colonial Boy. Take a browse of the website. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.   And in keeping with this history and nostalgia stuff, here is picture of me and Nita taken by my father with his Yashica Rolleiflex, around 1974 in Tattapani when Nita got engaged. You can see the silver village-style engagement ring[s] on her fingers, bought at a village fair.

American International School, Dhaka.
November 7th, 2007.
Reading and acting out from children's stories, story-telling and family reading time. In pyjamas.... of course!

The Rainbow Fish narated by David Prewitt:
 
 

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No, did not misspell moonlighting. Meant it, as in «moody». While in Simla during May, I did some portraits of the Head Master from my old school. When I started off, I took a few test shots [with flash] and then saw this lovely warm light of the evening sun that was coming in from the window on his left. He had a small table lamp lit as well. Turned off the flash, and quickly took two frames, without changing the exposure settings [1/80 at f/4] unfortunately - and ended up with underexposed images which, after a bit of tweaking in Photoshop, turned out fine except that there was some digital noise in the shadows because of the underexposure…. but I still like it!