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, Theatre Personality

Arundathi Nag

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.

Shobita Punja, Writer

Bikram Grewal

Pepita Seth


Shashi Deshpande, Writer

R. Balki, Film maker

Railway worker, mid 90s

Ramakrishna Hegde, Politician

Prof. S. Chandrasekhar. Scientist.

S G Vasudev, Artist

K K S Murthy, Select Book Shop, Bangalore