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Fish have been around for 500 million years. Fish are cold-blooded, which means their internal body temperature changes as the surrounding temperature changes. All fish have a backbone and there are primarily three classes of fish namely, the jawless, the cartilaginous, and the bony. There are about 20,000 different species of bony fish alive today.
Any visit to the fish market is an interesting experience every time. The hustle-bustle of the people is always chaotic. What’s peculiar of every fish market is the …

Royal Enfield was the brand of the Enfield Cycle Company, a British engineering company. Notable for producing motorcycles, it also produced bicycles, lawnmowers, stationary engines, and even rifle parts for the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield Lock. This legacy of weapons manufacture is reflected in the logo, a cannon, and their motto “Made like a gun, goes like a bullet”. It also enabled the use of the brand name Royal Enfield from 1890. In 1955 Enfield of India started assembling Bullet motorcycles under licence from UK components, and by …

I do not know how the village got it’s name. I recently visited this village. I visited ‘my’ ancestral village. Smelt the earth on which I played, roamed around the pillars on which I hopped, plucked leaves from the garden, and realized what I have missed all these years. Not that I have not done in the past, but this time it was with a different mindset, expectations and desire.
I had left my village some 24 years ago for education. I was surprised to see that not many things had …

Kolkata is a city that I just simply love. I could go on and on shooting in any part of Kolkata. However for the kind of photography that I do, I like the streets. They are always so full of character. There is never a dearth of subjects, and each one has its own characteristics. On the numerous occasions that I have visited there, I have had a chance to shoot quite a bit. Here are some of the things that I think Kolkata is incomplete without.
The trams

A photographer’s paradise… …

A very close to my heart project has been the Child Education project in rural parts of Bihar. I have received tremendous response for the project and am looking to work further on it. I have shown it to people across the world, and it has been truly appreciated.
Presently I have been visiting three schools of varying infrastructure, groups of children attending it. I have spent time talking to them. Often I feel that it is one of the very basic things that they seek.
I am always looking for …