Chi-Chi and Puk

Always felt that empathy is the most essential attribute to do whatever that we might want to.

This nightjar tale comes from a workshop project: toys for slum children.The raw material for the toy is something that they find around themselves all the time. The toys are such that once taught, even they can make for themselves...yes!the attribute of desirability.

Chi-chi flaps its wings and its tail flutters when nudged on the side of its belly with the thumb and index finger. Puk is a finger friend...:)

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THE SAMURAI called ASHOKA

This is the outcome of someone stepping on my tablelamp plug and crushing it, and one lazy afternoon...

So yes!Someone stepped on my lamp's plug and rendered it useless, until it took a re-birth as the SAMURAI called ASHOKA! Some decided to call it Jap's husband.(She is a day older though.)

Both of them met, of course on my table lamp :)

It was born to serve a mission,to stop a war between a friend and myself...Ashoka has been sent to the other side as a peace diplomat:P
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JAP

This is from one of those days when you really feel like making something.So you pick up whatever that you can lay your hands on and simply start. Looks like a mysterious girl, walking off somewhere...it was not much later when I found her husband and landed up in Japan for some reason(...of course in my dreams)!

A story thence follows...

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Architecture here

These pictures were clicked in the Old city of Ahmedabad. The Old streets lead our way to view architecture at the times of the Mughal empire under the British in India. Not so lost in the sands of time,this area is one of the most congested in the city(much like Chandni Chowk of Old Delhi),dotted by the yellow and green CNG autorickshaws. It is busy and very lively, at the same time very calm and peaceful.It is colourful and joyful.Although this part of the city has seen much worse of what other cities pray to never experience.Its wondrous, the way it exists!


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The Bharwad Tribe

These are some of the pictures of our study of the Bharwad Community in Ahmedabad. We(my friend and I) explored an area by the name of Wadaj.We were studying people and their habitat for this assignment.

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A play of lines

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SLR camera

Photography course just got over,and I am still in the midst of its final submission.However,this was something that I wanted to do for quite sometime.This course has gifted me some 300 pictures and lots of practice of finally shooting proper(not over or over exposed pictures) with manual SLR cameras.Yes! The course certainly did leave me nostalgic of all the times that I did try and use my father's SLR camera and had failed miserably.Too complicated I had always felt,but somewhere a certain joy overwhelmed me each time I used his cameras.Throughout the course,every click and crank reminded me of my father who was as passionate about photography and mountaineering.Every trek, every expedition,all there at home in boxes of slides,huge wooden tea-chests and closets.

This course is, dedicated to my father.I hope you like it.The pictures have been clicked in and around my campus in Ahmedabad.

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