Bandi Festival: An amazing ritual

Vasantha Maasa ( falls in March-April) , the first month of Hindu year  brings  thousands of annual rural festivals . An ancient style rituals of worshipping earth, sun, nature , water can be seen  even today in the villages of India.…

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When fog, clouds,coracles and light played with each other!

I noticed it was not usual morning   when I went to this place second time with a good friend of mine. A thick dense fog  from nowhere was moving slowly and the shore on the other side totally disappeared. The morning thin light was…

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World water day: exhibition of some photographs

Few of my photographs on Ground water awareness are being exhibited tomorrow at Max Mueller Bhavan, CMH road , Bangalore on the occasion of world water day Please do come and involve in the Programme tomorrow

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Presentation at Open show

I decided to showcase my Suggi photographs at openshow and submitted. When selected as one of five presenters I was really surprised and felt very happy. I never addressed such a huge and mature crowd apart from my office seminars which…

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Suggi Dancers of Halakki tribes

( this was presented in Open Show Bangalore #8. For more info please visit http://openshow.org/) The tribe Halakki tribe is pure agriculturist tribes inhabitants of  coastal areas of Uttarakannada district of Karnataka ( India) with a very…

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The snake girl, the bodyless girl

The girl with the snake body! I did…

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Sankranthi fire

Sankranthi is festival of cattle in Mandya! Makar…

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Chat with Artist: G D Bhat

I started a self project this year on making of Ganesh idols for the Ganesha chaturthi festival  in my state  Karnataka, India. I contacted many sources and started collecting information and captured  photos. But in the beginning  I was…

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