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Salt Ponds

Salt Ponds Peeps Into A Day’s Life of Salt Farmers Salt, the basic ingredient of cooking is produced artificially in the salt evaporation ponds. The present portfolio presents daily life of salt farmers in one such salt evaporation pond located at Chinnaganjam, Andhra Pradesh, South India. The season of abundant production of salt is during the months of March-June when the sun is seen at its scorching best. Under the razing sun and piercing rays, people (both women and men) get to work in the evaporation ponds. Working from the break of first light of the day, they to

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Varanasi

Varanasi Varanasi, India: A place for life and deathIndia is a land of mysticism and its people have a staunch belief in inherited traditions. Religious pilgrimages inform the devotional aspect of travel. Varanasi is one such place where devotes throng in veneration of Siva, the Lord of Destruction (one among the trinity in the Hindu Pantheon of Gods). This is the only place in Indiawhere people come and aspire for many things including death. Interestingly, death is a thing of celebration at Varanasi. Saints, seers, Himalayan sadhus and ordinary people visit the place

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Araku

Araku Araku Is The Place, Where We Are Not!Whether we relish or revile the urban world we dwell in, it is a live metaphor of human power. So, it bosses around to make us believe that gardens of bonsai trees and Croton plants are the ‘nature’. This so-called ‘nature’ is very much to be ‘controlled’ and ‘preserved’. Therefore, actual nature is the place where we, the civilised, urbanised, are not. So, Araku is that original and aboriginal nature with a distinctive tribal agglomeration. Araku Valley of Anantagiri and Sunkarimetta Reserved Forest, is one of the rich biodive

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Man to woman artist

Man to Woman Emoting the Expressions: Gestures of a transformed dancerThe objective of the current portfolio is to focus on one important aspect of Indian dramaturgy and dance traditions. The genre of performing arts is the most expressive tool of cultural production. Aesthetic traditions of India have categorised human emotions into nine elements known as Nava Rasas. On account of a taboo attached to female performances on open stage, male artists used to learn and perform the nine gestures: Love (Sringara), Laughter (Hasya), Sorrow (Karuna), Anger (Raudra), Courage (V

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Maha Mastakabhishekam

Maha Mastakabhishekam The Grand Consecration: Jaina Religious Observances in South IndiaTranscendental meditation in quest of self and other has been in vogue in India for long, a home to multi-religious congregations. Assimilated and synthesised cultural traditions mark the uniqueness of country and its social history. Jainism is one religious sect known for its emphasis on selflessness and, peace and order in human life. After twelve long years of wait, the present opportunity is presented before the searching eye of the photographer who tried to capture different dim