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FLOOD

FLOOD AND FURY

(Torrential rains followed by floods, the Vijayawada city had witnessed the scale of suffering never seen before. It took months to see the lives return to their routine pace, but fragments of fear and...

temple

WHERE ANGELS WALK

The temple evokes a nostalgic swirl of unkind memories. The reason, perhaps, I chose to enter less frequently those gigantic iron-framed wooden doors behind which, in the century-old historical sanctum, the most revered Hindu...

joy

THE JOY OF SEEING

A photographer who perceives the world’s radiance in its aesthetic glory differs from the unexciting eyes of a crowd of bystanders. His enthusiasm gives him an ‘extra sensitive third eye’ to appreciate the deeper...

rotary

A SPIN DOWN THE ROAD

It prided itself in a seven-decade glorious existence. A transparently democratic, well-oiled service organization, yet, strangely, in the hall where it organized its weekly meetings, fifty devoted patrons wholeheartedly showed up. More curiously, the...

vijayawada

THE CITYSCAPE OF VIJAYAWADA

Sixty years – I trust my life has taken a full circle. I have spent an entirety from a toddler to retirement all in one city. I love this pilgrimage and a commercial place...

day light

HUES OF THE DAYLIGHT

If I want to taste the sweetness of the air, those intricate symbols of naturemisted in golden hues; my eyes have to welcome the sunrise. Not peeping at it through a window, or gazing,...

shadows

SHADOWS AND PERSPECTIVES – II

It became a routine to walk down the hallway early in the morning to breathe the sunshine streaming in through all the windows. The glorious sunny surge across the skies – a mixture of...

FLOWING MOSAICS

It’s surprising to imagine the dumb ways the annoying changes Corona brought about in me more than I hide from admitting. It deformed me into an inexcusable lazybones as a Hippo – infested with...

clouds

CLOUDS SPEAK

It’s only a month since they allowed us the liberty to move around, after three months of Corona lockdown. Starved of hurry-scurry noises of the city and pale eyes hungry to peep into the...