Thursday, December 22, 2005
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Monday, November 21, 2005
Life is a Beach Part Deux

- "What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that."
- Victor Kiam
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Power Outage - So What?

The power goes out a lot here in chittagong, especially in the evenings. I do not have a generator, nor do i wish to have one, i still enjoy the candles and the darkness.
" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. "
Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Monday, October 10, 2005
Mud, Rain and football
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Friday, September 09, 2005
Monday, September 05, 2005
Rain is wonderful
Monday, August 29, 2005
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Farewell to The Rickshaw
Friday, August 19, 2005
On Walking

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.- Matthew Henry
The longest journey begins with a single step.- Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive at where we started
And know the place for the first time.- T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
I went for a walk the other day and noticed the different surfaces beneath my feet and here they are.. (all this was within 15 minutes from home.)
Monday, August 15, 2005
Swades We the People...thoughts on Independence Day

India celebrates its 58th anniversary of independence today. How much have we changed since that night in 1947 when the Indian Tricolour first ? To answer that i would like to tell you a little about today. I watched a Hindi movie called Swades. The story goes like this..
A NASA project manager, Mohan (Shah Rukh Khan of course) misses his home India. He comes home to find his foster mother and take her back to the US. In his quest, he goes to her village and stays there for a while, he also meets a childhood friend, and cannot help but fall in love with her. ( pretty standard hindi movie fare right?)
The movie contrasts the high-tech world of America and the colorful world of developing India, while at the same time exploring the nature of 'home'. Mohan sees the best of India, as well as the worst: the poverty, the prevailing caste system and lack of education. The course of his life changes when he decides to be a part of the solution and help his nation. Mohan's simple quest is similar to what we all go through. I have been through it at times and still ask myself what is 'home' and how can i help make our country better.
What was different today was something called the Swades Project that we were reminded about at every commercial break. This project is a move to provide electricity to villages across India that still need electricity. All you need to do to be a part of this is to simply SMS "SWADES" to 7827 and for each SMS Rs 10 will be donated to the fund.
"Aiming to provide electricity to 60,000 villages across India, project ‘Swades’ managed and supervised by STAR TV Viewers can support this by sending an SMS donation to the national project fund. “The subscriber need to SMS the keyword ‘SWADES’ to 7827. Each SMS one sends will be ones donation of Rs 10 to the project ‘Swades’ fund,” stated Mukul Khanna, GM-Marketing, Spice Telecom, Punjab. Project Swades takes cue from the reel film - Swades in which the lead actor Mohan Bhargava (Sharukh Khan) leads the villagers to come together and generate electricity through water turbine technology."
http://www.thefinancialworld.com/corporate/economy.html
To read more about Project Swades go to
http://stargold.indya.com/specials/swades/projects.htm
Today's collage is from the movie and not my own pictures... sorry, but I have been inspired.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Orange
Friday, August 12, 2005
Deathly Silent Cemetary
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Monday, August 08, 2005
Yellow and proud of it.
GREEN GREEN and Green

Calcutta look really good and green in the rainy/monsoon season
Green is the colour of Life. It signifies growth and renewal. It is also known as a restful colour. Among other things it is believed that a green room is a calming one.
Among other things green also is used to signify jealosy and inexperience. My personal favourite is the expression 'green-thumb' which signifies that you and plants seem to have a special relationship.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
BLUE TODAY
Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Wonders all around me

Some reminders of things that are around us and that we see everyday. Do you stop to take another look at the flowers? do you still stop to collect shells at the beach or is that only for kids?
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat
But always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
( I Hope You Dance- Lee Ann Womack)
Monday, August 01, 2005
Salt Lake in the afternoon.

Salt Lake a suburb of Kolkata, is very different from the rest of the city. It has its share of interesting sights too.
Clockwise: See this: A street vendor shows off his prized cross-stitch design. Leaning against a pillar: as he writes in his little book. An old Horse-powered tram: so this is how people traveled before electric trams took over. ( this is a shop at City Center )
Tiger in the bushes: in Central Park .
Saturday, July 30, 2005
A visit to Barrabazar in Kolkata and more.

Kolkata presents so many opportunities for photographs, its very tough selecting just a few.
Clockwise: What does he think about me? i wonder as i take his picture. . This was in a crowded part of the city called Barabazzar. Howrah bridge as the sun sets. Victoria Memorial.
Sitting and Staring: someone looked at it and said they like his hair.