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31
Dec
07

revolving ’round three sixty

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Categories: 2008, cycle and year end

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30
Dec
07

Protected: oddballs

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Categories: baffled, bewildered, oddballs and screwballs

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25
Dec
07

Merry Christmas!

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Categories: Candles, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Churches, Midnight Mass, Prayer, Sprit, St. Pauls Cathedral and calcutta

Midnight Mass

22
Dec
07

Rooftop Frequencies

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Categories: calcutta, calcutta rooftops, nostalgia and winter

those things you see on rooftops in old calcutta houses

12
Dec
07

Goa all the way

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Categories: Goa and getaways

road from hubli to panjim

the view from the bus of the road ahead that was taking me to panjim..still somewhere in karnataka when this was taken..

On NH4A

on goa’s NH4A…the bus slowly making its way to panjim city…

Panjim

an alley in panjim, on 31st january road…it led to the church of our lady of immaculate conception….

our lady of immaculate conception

panjim, band performing in front of the church of our lady of immaculate conception..

Morning at Mandovi

early morning, boats parked on mandovi river…and the new promenade laid out in 2004 for the first international film festival held in panjim, goa…

Se Cathedral, Old Goa.

the se cathedral church in the background…on 3rd january, which happens to be the feast of st. francis xavier….all goan people are in the mood for picnic during this time….

Rain trees

the rain trees that shelter most of old goan churches and the roads leading to them..

Vasco Fisherman’s House

vasco, clothes drying outside a fisherman’s house..

Unnamed beach in Vasco.

an unnamed beach in vasco of the size of a footbal field which you can access after climbing down from a japanese garden…only locals know about it..no foreign invasion here yet…


Miramar Afternoon

miramar beach, the closest beach (3kms) from panjim…

Friday Market at Mapusa

friday market at mapusa…

Lost tradesman..

he comes to mapusa market on fridays to sell his wares …lives close to the goa-karnataka border…met him in an eatery …maybe he was lost somewhere in his thoughts..or something…

Friday market, Mapusa.

spices for sale in friday market, mapusa..

© 2007 Siddhartha Hajra

01
Dec
07

Sunflower harvest and the train ride down South

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Categories: Hospet, Hubli, Hubli2Hospet, Karnataka, Views from the train, india and ruralscape

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words will spoil the beauty that south india holds…

 

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blurted out lately

- now if you wanna pose like mona lisa...i am gonna take my paint and brushes along... - i was thinking this one would be based on intuition as well...just as everything else.. - i for the first time am having a go at your brains... - no your sounding just right...bose...well tuned...

Good Grief! *from The Statesman

Looking Back: Some youngsters find it 'fashionable' to know about their city's past. Perhaps they are easily inspired by plans government representatives present every year at tourism fairs to promote Kolkata as a 'heritage' destination! Sometime back a couple of youngsters turned up Statesman House wondering whether prints of old photographs of the city were available. They went on to reveal their plans of starting 'heritage walks' in Kolkata. It was suggested that they should meet people like PT Nair and Rathin Mitra for information about the city's past. Their reply was 'interesting' ~ "Who?..." What are they doing these days? Why don't you find out!

About This Blog -

In case you have made it this far and wondering where you are, I think I owe you an explanation. After all I must have done something that brought you here. Anyways.... About this blog - don't know what strange affliction it is to post random inconsequential snippets from the recesses of my demented mind. Its deliberate, but an accidental one. And it continues to evolve in that way. The word evolve should not be taken in a Spencerian understanding of things, it's perhaps a more random haphazard spurted 'growth' than anything else. Sometimes its just plain stagnant. It is quite embarrassing at times to put up anything here on this blog. In any instance this self publishing exercise will always be a scarred reminder of how stupid one can be. Therefore, without deprecating my efforts further, I want to say that this blog isn't about my photographs (that's what I primarily engage in - photography), it isn't about whether the opinions I have on certain issues matters less, it isn't about how I made a discovery by the way of a film or a place I just happened to have visited, it isn't about all those things I just mentioned and also isn't about those things that could corroborate with the above mentioned disclaimers. So what is it about? Well, I think, its about the emptiness that surrounds me, the emptiness of thoughts and memories and afflictions - by the way of a person, a place, a music, a film. Not much into analysis, more into observations. More visual than literal. Although sometimes the two mix well, at other times they're like oil and water. It's abstract, and its how I feel about life. Don't try to make sense of it. You'll probably be very disappointed. So what's the point of being here? None ~ Zilch. It's very personal and very selfishly so. Peace & love. Siddhartha