Portraiture occupies an important part of my practice. Over the decades, I have photographed many well-known writers, artists, actors, scientists, politicians and fellow Indians. Many of the images in this collection were made at a unique bookstore called R&B in mid-90s.

Arundathi Nag, Actor, Founder Ranga Shankara

Arundathi Nag, Actor, Founder Ranga Shankara

David Davidar, Publisher

Protima Gauri Bedi, Dancer

Khushwant Singh, Writer, Journalist.

Mahesh Dattani, Playwright.

Imtiaz Dharker, poet, artist and video film-maker.

U R Ananthamurthy, Author, Scholar.

Shobitha Punja, Writer

Bikram Grewal, Writer

Pepita Seth, Writer


Shashi Deshpande, Writer

R Balki, Film Director

Railway level crossing attendant and his children

Ramakrishna Hegde, Politician

Prof. S. Chandrasekhar. Scientist.

S G Vasudev, Artist

KKS Murthy, Select Book Store

Yusuf Arakkal, Artist

C R Simha, Actor

A village priest.

Vivek Muthuramalingam. Photographer. This image was made using a ultra large format process camera. I used 8X10 X-Ray film for this image.

Saili. Photographed using my 60 years old Rolleicord.