Category Archive for "Stories"
Grassland Story, Vol-II
Sometime in August of 2011, a senior IAS officer, the then head of Bangalore Development (Destruction?) Authority, stood on the Hesaraghatta grassland and declared “Birds? What birds? I cannot even see a sparrow”. So I was told. The government of…
My work on preserving the catchment of Hesaraghatta
It was in the late 90s when Hesaraghatta dawned on my horizon. Later on when I got married and moved to Hesaraghatta in 2001, the reservoir was an everyday sight. In 2004 after successive drought years the lake dried up…
Kadri Gopalnath
The great saxophonis Kadri Gopalnath passed away recently. A sad news for connoisseurs of Indian classical music. I had made an extensive photo series on him in the mid 80s, when he was in his 30s. I was a teenager…
Santhi Soundarajan
When I read about the South African athlete, Caster Semenya, has lost her case against the athletic governing body, IAAF, and will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels if she wishes to continue competing internationally in running events, I thought…
Last days of REX
On 30th of December, 2018, I spent an afternoon photographing at Rex theatre on Brigade Road. I had seen many movies there. I had missed photographing Plaza theatre before it shut down few years ago. Theatre was full of nostalgia…
They built a barrage across river Krishna
It was 1988.. a year after I had moved to Bangalore. I wanted to shoot for India Today. Their office was on the corner of St.Mark’s and Residency Roads, in a small building next to the iconic Cash Pharmacy. Chidanand…
1992 : Reporting from Silicon Valley
It was 1992. I was going to the United States to attend a workshop by Hans Neleman at Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. It was a one week affair but I had planned to stay in the US for about two…
Ajja’s House
Last Monday on 28th of September, I was driving from Mangalore, the city of my birth to Bangalore, where I have lived now for over 28 years. I took a small detour from the usual road to visit a town…