Category: Places

smiles

WHEN THE NIGHT SMILES

I see the pandemic raging, and double locking its grip, launched another wave of pestilence, seem much scarier than it was in its earlier devastating onslaught. It’s more ferocious, people seem like nowhere to...

happy

HAPPY YELLOWS

It was Covid triggered desolation swept around my school compound, but recent heavy rainfall, the warm wintry sun and winds heartened the green foliage to bright bloom with giggling, thankful airs. I imagined they...

joy

SHRIEKS OF JOY

There is nothing to beat the euphoria and the flush of adventure we enjoy the moment we hike close to the radiance of nature and the soul and terrain it claims for us. Whenever...

mountains

MOUNTAINS AND BEAMING BRATS

The hillock stands a few paces away from the busy national highway, and it takes less than ten minutes to climb to the top. There I find a Christian shrine, the Cross of Jesus...

green

A GREEN PALLETE

Besides being on a lookout for orange sunsets, flying skies, and bluish waters, as a photographer, I felt happy to celebrate the quiet remoteness whenever I visited that tranquil landscape. It’s hidden far from...

boats

BOATS AND A MORNING

For the last two years, I have had made many photographic excursions to the River Krishna in our city. I would take it always as a delightful way to spend Sundays that you can...

colours

ALONE IN COLOURS

I bicker a lot before I wake up and dash out on Sunday mornings. But, without qualms, I jump up quickly and get the backpack ready for the photo outing: a feat which sometimes...

COVID

HOMEBOUND – WITH A PINCH OF HOPE

Class of -76, it still amazes me what magic has bonded us to a niche so unfalteringly. Although we reached the age of comforting the grandchildren in our laps, untouched by the era of...

Isolation

SELF-ISOLATION BANTER – 4

They added twenty more days to the woes that have most dreadfully accumulated past twenty-one -days in self-isolation as the corona virus revengeful tentacles seem not loosened its grip over millions. Its aftermath scattered thousands...

isolation

SELF-ISOLATION BANTER -3

‘Sleep became a distance wish’ I’m tired of sad visions dancing on the walls the moment I crawl on the bed. The time trickles, my mind goes blank as I lay awake writhing for...