A Traveller’s Eye, A Thinker’s Heart
I like to tell stories. I like to take photos.
And I like to share them. Enjoy.
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ISIS THUGS IN PALMYRA
The ancient desert oasis settlement of Palmyra in the central steppe of Syria has had a special place in my heart. But today, IS thugs are knocking on its doorsteps and if they are true to form, they will destroy the UNESCO World Heritage site. I first travelled to Syria in 1990 for an interview…
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DANCING โSHROOMS
Weโve had a wet autumn, and mushrooms are popping up all over the yard. It reminds me of the times when Iโd see wild mushrooms and salivate and go out and collect them. And it reminds me of the time when I almost wrote my obituary after eating mushrooms. During the summer of 1979, I…
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VALE VICTOR
Good friends are hard to come by; endearing friends even harder. Victor was one of my greatest endearing friends and his sudden passing today leaves me in a state of total loss. I greatly admired Victor for all of his photographic journeys and adventurous exploits but what made him such a great friend was his…
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FROM AMERY TO ADELAIDE: THE CONVERGENCE OF TWO LIVES
Amery is a dinky little town in the far north of Wisconsin. Itโs a town of fewer than 3,000 people where pretty much everyone knows everyone else. I spent my formative years there and always consider it to be my home town. I feel very much aligned with life in northern Wisconsin yet lifeโs twists…
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CHENNAI TO ADELAIDE
We have safely reached home after a long overnight flight from Chennai via Kuala Lumpur. On our last day Padma asked us what we missed most about home. The boys mentioned beef. They missed their all beef hamburgers and sirloin steaks. Every time we saw a cow on the road I could see them salivating…
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FAREWELL INDIA
We were overwhelmed by the number of family members who came to the airport to bid us farewell and a safe journey home. Ravi and Minny left Gudur before dawn for a three-hour journey to the airport; Chandra, Sampath, Uma, Kumari came from afar the previous days and Usha, Santhosh, Raju and Sujatha came from…
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ONE PHOTO, PLEASE
โOne photo, please.โ I kept hearing their voices all the time. The children asking me to take a photo of them. โOne photo, please.โ โThank you.โ And I kept thinking of all the times I was thanked for taking a photo of a child, a man or a woman. โThank you, thank you.โ Why were…
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KASHMIR’S LAKE DAL
Allฤhu akbar! The Muslim call to prayer at dawn woke us all from our deep sleep on the houseboat. They must have a special New Yearโs Day version of the call because it seemed to go on forever. It was a good alarm clock for me though as I wanted to get up at dawn…
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SRINAGAR
We said goodbye to the Himalayas and drove a couple of hours down to Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmir is a shopperโs paradise due to its carpet and textile industries so our first stop was a carpet wholesaler. Our home is already well decorated with handmade carpets…
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