Landed a couple of days ago and got further south to Hikkaduwa straightaway. India will be playing Sri Lanka in a couple of days in the first test of the tour and till cricket starts there is some time to explore the southwest. I am staying at Citrus Hikkaduwa a resort situated bang on the beach. Rooms are a bit small and not quite suitable for a business traveller… there is just one charging point … to get the second […]
Categories: Phone Pix, Photography, Travel
One always felt that a megacity like Mumbai deserves a world class airport. So when the new swanky T2 was launched with fanfare I was quite curious to experience this new terminal. I had a brief interaction with domestic operations from T2 and those short interactions increased my curiosity even more. It is usually rare to see differentiated aesthetics in modern buildings. But this building is inspired by peacock motif; which I feel gives Indianness to overall design language. I […]
Categories: Design Thinking, Phone Pix, Reviews, Travel • Tags: airport, design, international, Mumbai, mumbai immigration, T2, T2 forex, travel, user friendly
Its not often one gets to click four gorgeous girls! So there you go
Categories: Photography • Tags: ashlesha tawde, dhanashree, manasi, portraits, revati
Every journey is a new experience. And every flight lets you see the world from a different perspective. Especially morning flights if you get a good seat which is not against light. I flew to Lucknow recently and sky was clear.. so clear that I could see far away upto horizon… from thirty thousand feet clouds looked like cotton floating and the ground was visible too. Never thought Delhi looks so much in order… everything looked so well arranged Waiting […]
Categories: Phone Pix, Photography, Travel • Tags: aerial photography
I was too bored to click with my DSLR this time. So decided to go shoot n scoot with my phone cam. Blogging can be fun from phone too. So this one goes to Redmi Note 4G This picture gallery near clock tower has some interesting portraits but no clicking allowed inside. Husainabad clock tower is considered to be India’s tallest Satkhanda is another interesting structure in the vicinity. There are couple of interesting things about gates here. They have […]
Categories: Ethnography, Heritage, Phone Pix, Photography
काही चित्रपट गोष्ट सांगतात तर काही चित्रपट म्हणजे अनुभवांची गोष्ट असते. किल्ला हा एक असाच अनुभव उभा करणारा चित्रपट. अकरा वर्षांच्या चिन्मय काळेच्या भावविश्वात वडीलांच्या जाण्याने काहूर माजलेले असतानाच त्याच्या आईची दूर गुहागरला बदली होते. ओळखीच्या आणि गजबजलेल्या पुण्यातून दूर या छोट्या ठिकाणी राहणे त्याला फारसे पटलेले नसते. हा बदल स्वीकारायला चिन्मय तयार नसतो. त्याला सोबत फक्त त्याच्या आईची … ती देखील तिच्या दु:खातून न सावरलेली … अनोळखी शहरात एकटी! आपल्या मुलाने या नवीन ठिकाणी एक नवी सुरुवात करावी असा […]
Categories: गनिमी कावा, Films, Reviews • Tags: avinash arun, किल्ला, marathi cinema
Some films tell a story. Some share an experience; Killa is one such film. Chinmay Kale, the eleven year old protagonist is reluctant to accept the latest chapter in his life. Barely after he has lost his father; his mother is transferred to a sleepy coastal town. Chinmay has no friends, he is now away from lively and comfortable Pune. It is a lonely beginning for Chinmay in his new school. His mother (Amruta Subhash) wants Chinmay to adjust to the new […]
Categories: Design Thinking, Films, Reviews • Tags: amruta subhash, avinash arun, ftii, killa, marathi, marathi cinema, marathi films
It was a warm summer morning sometime in May 2008. I had just purchased my Canon EOS 40D camera and a telephoto lens. Gir seemed to be a perfect photo expedition to get some interesting shots. Our gypsy entered the jungle around daybreak and we were lucky enough to see some fresh pugmarks on the way. We could follow them for almost a Kilometer and then we heard a monkey call just a few hundred yards ahead of us. It […]
Categories: Photography, Travel • Tags: asia, asiatic lion, bhave, chinmaye, gir, gujarat, lion, sasan gir, travel, wildlife
रणथंभोर व्याघ्र प्रकल्प ….भल्या पहाटे आमच्या जीपने रूट नंबर दोन चा रस्ता पकडला होता …. वाघोबाचे दर्शन घ्यायचे म्हणजे उजाडायच्या आधीच जंगलाच्या वाटांवर कान टवकारून निघावे लागते … चेकपोस्ट वर कागदपत्रे तपासण्यासाठी आम्ही थांबलो होतो … सहा जणांच्या सफारी जीप मध्ये माझ्यासोबत एक ब्रिटीश फोटोग्राफर, चालक, गाईड आणि चार जणांचे एक कुटुंब होते. अगदी नमुनेदार भारतीय चौकोनी कुटुंब … तेवढया दोन मिनिटांच्या ब्रेक मध्ये प्लास्टिकच्या पिशव्या उघडल्या आणि नाश्ता सुरु झाला … अगदी हॉटेल पासूनच मुलांचा कोलाहलआणि आईबापांचा मोबाईल सुरु […]
Categories: गनिमी कावा, Ethnography, Photography, Travel • Tags: indian tourism, indian tourists, kesari, tours, travel, wildlife
चित्रकाराला सगळ्यात लाडकी गोष्ट असते ती त्याचा कैन्व्हास आणि तो कैन्व्हास जर भिंतीइतका मोठा असेल तर सगळ्या चौकटी सोडून थ्रिलिंग पद्धतीने कलाकाराला व्यक्त होता येते. जे जे स्कूल ऑफ आर्ट मधून चित्रकलेचे प्रशिक्षण घेतेलेली मैत्रेयी नामजोशी जेव्हा आयआयटी मध्ये थिसिस प्रोजेक्ट करत होती तेव्हा तिला आपण कागदाची चौकट मोडून खुल्या दिलाने आपली कला मांडली पाहिजे असे वाटले आणि मग एका चहाच्या कट्ट्याचा कायापालट झाला. “जेव्हा मी प्रोजेक्ट सुरु केले तेव्हा फार विचार न करता मोठ्या भिंतीवर आपल्या ब्रशला करामत […]
Categories: गनिमी कावा, Design Thinking • Tags: illustration, maitreyee, maitreyee nilawar, wall painting
ARR is not the first music director I loved …. rather I was yet to like any music composer independently till he arrived. In my first post I did mention that I enjoyed listening to Maine Pyaar Kiya and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar during that phase … I also had a compilation of some old hindi songs and Marathi Natya Sangeet … It would be fair to say that my dad played a big role in shaping my musical tastes […]
Categories: Films, Music • Tags: a r rahman, ARR, Chennai, Films, Mumbai, music, Sound, Wizard
Ahmedabad is an interesting place! Every time I visited this city, there was some new discovery. I remember eating mutton samosas in the old city and feasting on unlimited Gujarati Thali at Sasuji. My initial encounters with this city were for cricket coverage. Especially during 2006 ICC champions trophy when I covered all the games played at Motera. I remember the eerie evening when the entire stadium was fumigated for protection against Malaria. Some interesting cricket conversation took place on […]
Categories: Design Thinking, Ethnography, Heritage, World Heritage • Tags: Adalaj, Ahmedabad, B D Doshi, M F Husain, Sarkhej
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