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My Nepal Diary – X – The End
My Nepal Diary - XThe EndThis is my last post on my journey in Nepal. Anyways i have over narrated the story. I am ending with images of Kathmandu Darbar Square -17th April 2015 and after 25th April1st May 2015
My Nepal Diary – IX- 11.56 NST
My Nepal Diary - IX11.56 NST --> The Gufa (cave) in which the monk’s Stupa is built and also promises to cure our bad dreams proved to be just a myth. Within seconds before the 2nd quack we ran to our home stay to check our friend who was taking rest,...
My Nepal Diary – VIII – Salt route -II
My Nepal Diary - VIIISalt route-IIThe landscape of the Old Classic Salt Route...
My Nepal Diary – VIII – Salt route
My Nepal Diary - VIIISalt routeMuch of the geographic territory now recognized as Nepal formerly consisted of a number of small hill states and petty kingdoms, the state of Lo among them. Lo was the gateway to one of the easier pass routes to Tibet, and its kings grew...
My Nepal Diary – VII – Bhavacakra
My Nepal Diary - VIIBhavacakra Lo to KathmanduFear in minutes, which leads to death. Held and turned by a dreadful demon (Yama, the god of death?) is the Bhavacakra (wheel of life) I bought one Thangka on the way to Lo, painted by a monk. I have never...
My Nepal Diary – VI – Street Museum
My Nepal Diary - VI Street Museum Nepal Graphite or whatever you can say - Painting on the wall. Nepal Street is very vibrant in its art form - historical to contemporary. The street becomes a form of contemporary expression in contrast...
My Nepal Diary – V – One week before
My Nepal Diary - V One week before Bhaktapur and Patan -->Normally I visit these places after the Trek - I am not sure what made me visit before the trek-- should I consider myself lucky again? My dream of staying in Bhaktapur working in that paper factory,...
My Nepal Diary – IV – How to make a Chorten
My Nepal Diary - IV How to make a ChortenMui La passThis is a high pass just above a Monastery called Ghar Gompa which nestles in the cliffs below- in the distance the snows are Tibet - info by Sujoy Das One more date to remember 25th April. Now it is more than one...
My Nepal Diary – III – A Game of Carom
My Nepal Diary - IIIA Game of Carom Lo-Manthang --- KagbeniCarom and Archery Vs Trekking, Cycling and Marathon As i understood the Pahāṛī; पहाड़ी people are interested in games like Carom and Archery compared to the non-Pahāṛī; पहाड़ी people. Non Pahāṛī; पहाड़ी people...
My Nepal Diary – II – crossing a landslide
My Nepal Diary - IICrossing a Landslide Chele Waiting for the road to get clear. The group is debating we should start walking or wait...landslide looks small from the distance but it isn't. suddenly we see a yellow thing moving near the landslide -...
My Nepal Diary
My Nepal Diary - I2015Before I narrate A story - I would like to start My Nepal Diary by posting some nice, beautiful and positive photographs. These images I have taken on the route of Lo-Manthang, upper Mustang, NepalMustang - The Forbidden Kingdom one of the...
POI / भारत के लोग
POI / भारत के लोग Installation details:1. Printed mosquito net of 12ft height1. POI video: 45 min duration1. Map video: 5min approx. duration1. Audio File Credits: Sound design: V. P. MohandasCompositor: Manish RautEditor: Archana Hande & Rikhav Desai...
Circle the World in 24
Circle The World in 24 Technical collaborators: Wooden objects: Gurunath Rajaram Mestry, Carpenter: Arjun PrajapatiMechanical and Electrical design: Ramesh Vishnu Anjarkar, Consultant: Ajit Shirke Animation Compositor: Sandeep BadgujarThis Film is about conflicting...
Feral Trail Part 2
The research - IIWA 2013 Part - 2Enter your password please: "Afghans of Australia"*Success**Welcome* There are many such certificates says Identity/nationality: Afghan - Country India, Baluchisthan.. There are other names...
The Camel Feral
The research - IWA 2013 The common question is - why i was in Laverton a remote place in WA? wrote a proper idea of my existence in a desert - when i say "proper" it means grammar and spellings has been checked. but still i feel there is more than what...
Self Portraits
Self Portraits WA 2013 Trials and Trails of mine -- with my bush hat and net
Women in the gold mines
Kal history -1 Kalgoorlie 1890s to 2013 WA Nov 2013 As soon as we hear about Kalgoorlie and Women we think of Brothels & prostitution. To know a general view of the history please...
Classical Landscape Oil Paintings
WA Nov 2013 Can these be passed as the Classical landscape oil paintings - confused between European or American? if European then 1700 to 1800? and if American then 1800 to 1900? and for me in WA it is 2013 Always refused to do Oil paintings on Canvas - it so Male...
Man made landscape
The Land Sculptures WA Nov 2013 --> The Trail, which is remaining in beneath the red earth of WA horizon tells a story of a nomadic establishment of economy but also a loss of identity. which follows a heritage trail of the Goldfields – The Gold rush to...
Sunset to Sunrise
Sunset to Sunrise Report of 12 hours:5.30pm to 5.30am WA Nov 2013It is fun to be out and record from Sunset to Sunrise - the drama of the sky- you could say the Sky is an exhibitionist in here. Almost Summer time: mids of summer-winter-spring - everyday the...
Abandoned ….
Lost or Abandoned WA 25 Oct, 2013Are these things lost or abandoned? 'Lost' because of the loss of history but still in contrary it records the trail of the human history. Abandoned' because it gives you the feel of homeless and also a sense of meaningless of the...
Rubbish Tip
Self PortraitWA 20 Oct 2013Here as i am in a trail of Golden Camel -yet to see some camels. and yet to report on the stories of the South Asia and Western Australia trade and migration and the oral stories. which is coming shortly - still collecting stories. The...
Ghost town 2
Another Gold rush Ghost town WA Oct 2013Burtville another abandon town which is 30 klm from Laverton. most of the houses and people shifted from Burtville to Laverton in the early 1980's. yes it is another story many houses got shifted from laverton to ..... yet...
Laverton Horse Race
WA 12th Oct Laverton Horse Race day- was fun - betting, beer and Facinators FASCINATORSFASCINATORSFASCINATORS
OLR – Site-5 lake Ballard
Lake BallardOld Laverton Road = OLRSite (5)WA: 27TH Septa very windy day cloudy day, the sky very moody and dramatic- thank god it was not sunny - we would have got burnt. Lake Ballard is a salt lake- google you will find many information on this lake. The beauty...
OLR – Site-4 Niagara
Niagara Old Laverton Road = OLR Site (4) WA: 26th SeptPlease dont mistake it to Niagara fall which is in Canada - but i assume this name might have been inspired from there.
OLR – Site-3a Kookynie Pub
Kookynie PubOld Laverton Road = OLRSite (3)WA: 26TH SeptIn this Ghost town one Pub survives - we can shout and say Jai bumbum bhole we can survive.... it is a pub cum restaurant cum hotel -- i plan to go sometime next week to have lunch. this reminds me i yet to...
OLR – Site-3 Kookynie
KookynieOld Laverton Road = OLRSite (3)WA: 26TH Sept Kookynie: A Living Ghost town I can only say they are all Ghost towns and I am fascinated how these towns are just around this horizon. so i have just decided for few sites i will just do photo essay than...
OLR – Site-2 Murrin Murrin
Murrin MurrinOld Laverton Road = OLRSite (2)WA: 25TH Septone more Old heritage gold mine site. love the name Murrin Murrin. now there is a new mining site other side of the new highway which takes the old name too. i am amazed by these abandoned sites - with all the...
OLR – Site-1-Rail Gadi
Rail Gadi: Old and New Railway line. Old Laverton Road = OLRSite (1)WA: 24TH SeptOne cloudy windy Windy Sunday my friend Joanna (who works for the Laverton Shire office) -- a brilliant human being and historian and an excellent guide for me. lived many years in...
GOLD (s2)
2nd Big Gold mine visit WA - 23rd Sept Abandon – bigger than Mary mac (already reported): Admiral Hill – named after a hill which looks like a cap of the Admiral. When you first visit these landscapes – it is difficult to say which one is natural hill or Gold mine or...
Correction : Addition of the Living Archive
Correction : Addition of the Living ArchiveWA: 23rd September Some Information needs correction and addition, as people are reacting to the images I am uploading and giving me the right information – which is amazing. I hope in the end of my stay everyone in Laverton...
Street Art in Laverton
Golden Camel (s10) - as the title is getting very confusing as a title - thou the series will be called Golden Camels Golden Camel (s10) Living archive - 3 -The street ArtWA 18th SeptThese images doesn't need any story to be told as the visuals are good enough by...
Golden Camel (s9)
Living archive - 2 Peter Wills Yard WA 11th Sept As I have mentioned earlier this Yard looks like a Kabadi-Khanna* or a junkyard but this is actually an archive almost like “Chor-bazzar” of Bombay. Disclaimer: When I say Chor Bazar it doesn’t mean stolen...
Golden Camels (s8)
Living archive -1b Laverton Cemetery - Unclaimed WA 12th Sept Few changes where made today:22nd sept regrading this article. To check click here The Unclaimed: The divide wall With a small wall separating the area. It seems the Wall was all the way....
Golden Camels (s7)
Living archive -1a Laverton Cemetery - Afghan GravesWA 11th Sept The Word Afghan in Australia is actually a very Broad term: Basically I feel they meant "Muslims" but then I figured out all where not Muslims as they where Sikhs too, so may be...
Golden Camels (s6)
Living archive - 1Laverton Cemetery - Old GravesWA 10th Sept Living archive means - archive which is used - re-used - recycled - visited - remembered - day to day surviving. it isnt an archive which is siting ideal or abandoned. till now in this small town i...
Golden Camels Laverton WA 6th sept (s5)
The Station Master Peter Hill - approx 80yrs old - lived all his life in Laverton - he might be the Eldest man in the town. First day I went to meet him to take permission to photograph his place -why? because- the house he lives in used to be the Station...
Golden Camels Laverton WA Sept 4th (s4)
The red earth Horizon
Golden Camels Laverton WA Sept 3rd (s3)
Laverton my Home, 17 Craiggie st & 4 Euro street 3bedroom + a courtyard + a car park (even here i am without a car but happy with the Car park) some information of the town: these information i gathered on my own: Garbage day: Wednesday morning -...
Golden Camels Laverton WA Aug 30th (s2)
Laverton and Mary MacReached this small town - saw my to be home (3bedroom house with a garden and a car park without a car) i am not sure what i will do with this space - as you know i stay in a place like Bombay and in an appartment which is just one room - anyways...
Golden Camels, Laverton WA Aug 30th (s1)
Skippers - Perth to Barrack Granny Smith MineI came to Perth on 29th afternoon. Got some rains from Bombay. met my friend Rina and had a lovely dinner with Rina and Marco, Katherine (both from Spaced), Vietnamese food in Perth - good foodNext day morning 5am Katherine...
Oslo Norway Feb 2013: Series- 4
Viking museum these ships where found as a burial ships. they also found lot silk in these ships so i assume it must have come from the silk route.
Oslo Norway Feb 2013: Series- 3
Reindeer horns: The Central parkNow i know from where the reindeer must be getting inspiration to sculpt their Horns. the first day as i said when i landed it started snowing - the central park looks like this and then how it changes. the central park also...
Oslo Norway Feb 2013: Series- 2
The DrawingUniversity Aula,getting renovated: The University Aula is located in the middle building (Domus media) of the old campus in central Oslo.this wasn't an art project - it was actually a renovation going on. but yes i was excited as it reminded...
Oslo Norway Feb 2013: Series- 1
Ice breaking - first glimpse chilling cold - i landed and took a train towards town got out and saw it was heavily snowing and me with my bag-pack and a suitcase dragging on the snow walking towards the hotel - a 5 min walk took me 30min. and then people there told...
Shivasamudram 2012
Yet to fill- 2012 Water fall of Karnataka - the proud Kaveri - very touristy spot for a waterfall bath dance - it is suppose to be Asia's second hydro-electric power station. From Bangalore by road: 2hours nonstop drive. - but will you not stop at Kamat for...
Chotta Rann of Kutch 2009
Babul se NamakFrom Bujh you take police permission. Permission takes a full day. you need your ID card and a passport photo and a letter. yes the most important if you are applying for a group - everyone from the group has to go to the police station and show their...
Silvassa – 2010
Silvassa - Gujarat.In 2010 I was invited as a guest along with Sheela Gowda for Sandarbh by Shreyas Karle who was conducting a Nature art workshop in Silvassa near a forest range. Sandarbh is an artist initiative in Partapur (Rajasthan), this initiative encourages...
Santiniketan – 1986 to 2007
Santiniketan:Rabindranath: kacha mati punchas paisa & paka mati: ek takaunbaked Rabindranath: half a rupee, baked Rabindranath: one rupee.baked and unbaked is the story of ideology becoming Icon baked and unbaked is the story of Tradition and belief - is it in...