Mumbai Haiku
I attended a workshop on Haiku writing and this is what I came up with about my city.
City
Cityscapes, city sights, urban communities, metropolis life, city dweller identity, focussed on Mumbai with an occasional mention of Delhi, Bangalore and other cities I’ve been in.
Evenings In Mhaari/ Saadi Mumbai
I miss the Mumbai of my childhood. I suppose I’ll have to stop calling it ‘amchi Mumbai’ and shift to ‘maari Mumbai’ or ‘saddi Mumbai’ instead.
I Focal: The Other Side of The Tracks
East and West of Mumbai train tracks
IFocal: Artist & Audience
Of this one, I have two renditions: I spotted this young man engrossed in his work of painting an Ganesh idol, in preparation for Ganesh Chaturti. The man on the scooter idled at the red signal watching him. And in this picture, I realized that the artist and his idol…
IFocal: The Have & the Have-Not
I think the title says it all. *If you like this photograph, you might want to check out my Instagram stream.
City | Home & Identity | Poetry | Pop Culture | Roving I
IFocal: Assembly Line
I sometimes hear outsiders call Mumbaikers, mechanical. Could that be true? I think we awaken every morning, bright with the colour of our individuality. Then the city crystalizes us into a reverse prism, bringing out only the most necessary aspects of our being and spits us out, still filtered and…
IFocal: Colourist
I pour my blood, sweat and tears so colour may flow out of my fingers and stain your world in brilliant hues.
IFocal: Black and White Stories
Everyone’s just another pixel in the collage till you boil them down to their #BlackandWhite stories. I’ve heard people say that Black-and-white is the better form of photography. As a colour lover, I resisted this for a long time. I still enjoy vibrancy but I’m beginning to see how colour…
IFocal: Train Journey
*If you like this photograph, you might want to check out my Instagram stream.
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