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the last days of a rich script

  The story of the Tigalari script which is going through it’s last days is very interesting. Some research says Brahmins who visited Kerala to study astrology and ayurvedic during ancient times brought this script back to…

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Faces from the desert

[hcode_space padding_setting="1" desktop_padding="padding-four" ipad_padding="sm-padding-four" mobile_padding="xs-padding-four"] When I was backpacking in Rajasthan along with my good friend Prabhu  for the first time. After couple of days…

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Some monsoon Visuals of Agumbe

Did a memorable trek in the western ghats in the rain to a waterfall called "Onake Abbi " but could not resist taking some rain and fog pictures in Agumbe . What a place ! Here are few photos I shot .      …

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the activist from Tattikai

W hen the whole world is worried about climate change , a person who saw this coming 40 years before has silently  left this world after living 97 long years. I was fortunate enough to meet him in September 2015  and photograph him just…

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ಕೊಂಡದಕುಳಿ

ಸುಮಾರು ಐವತ್ತು ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ ಒಬ್ಬ  ಹುಡುಗ ಮತ್ತೆ ಆತನ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಾಳದ  ಕನಸು  ಶುರು ಆದದ್ದು ಹೀಗಂತೆ ;  ಹಿಂದಿನ ದಿನ ರಾತ್ರಿ ತಾನು ಕಂಡ ಆಟದ (ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನದ) ಗುಂಗಿನಿಂದ  ಹೊರಬರಲಾಗದೆ  ಸಮಯ ಸಿಕ್ಕಾಗಲೆಲ್ಲ ಮನೆಯಿಂದ ದೂರದ ಗುಡ್ಡೆ ಬದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೂ ಬೀಳದಂತೆ ಕುಣಿಯುವವನು  ಈ…

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Chat-with-artist : Chittani ( Part 2)

  Shri Chittani Ramachandra Hegde (ಶ್ರೀ ಚಿಟ್ಟಾಣಿ ರಾಮಚಂದ್ರ ಹೆಗಡೆ )   Hailed as a  living legend of Yakshagana, Chittani Ramachandra Hegde is the first Yakshagana artist to win the prestigious Padmashri award…

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Chat-with-artist : Chittani ( Part 1)

PART TWO Everyone from Karnataka is familiar with Yakshagana, a form of folk dance, but do we know how Yakshagana is actually performed? Google the word and you get hundreds of websites right from Wiki to YouTube videos telling details…

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