Easy going, Straight forward, Partially witty while staring into a fire, and a bit too honest.

this is long, curl up somewhere..

We all come from somewhere and are headed elsewhere. It’s where we are headed and the possibility of something new that keeps me moving.

Someone asked me once, why do you have so many lizards hanging up on your wall? ; I didn’t have an answer for her beyond “It inspires me”. Among the occasional lizard in my house, you will also find small toy animals gathering dust and plants and piles of unread books.

Growing up I was completely immersed in sports; it kept my mind and body active. In university, while playing rugby, I injured my knee, after receiving a tackle from a 6 feet 4 inch Fijian. In retrospect, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. In bed for thirteen months, unable to move, I grew a beard, read voraciously and started playing with my fathers old FM while spending countless hours staring out the window, mostly at birds.

Murakami once said “Ideas are like beards, men don’t have them until they grow up”.

By the time I finished my rehab - and my undergraduate degree in business— still unaware of Murakami, I kept my newly sprouted beard and an old camera with me. I started making some headway in understanding the latter.

Drawn in by a deep affection for nature, I decided to spend the next year and a half in the jungles of central India, working as a self taught naturalist and photographing the wildlife that surrounded me.

Once back from the wild, I realized that there was much more to the world than the fraction I had experienced. Social and environmental concerns began taking root. I started looking at a lot of photography and read a lot. Without realizing it, I was slowing turning towards storytelling.

Over the next two years, some of my work found its way into print. I undertook a lot of commissioned work for non-profit concerns and explored video. Somehow, I managed to keep my head above water. Yet, something was missing.

Now I realize, it’s that ‘missing’ I hunt for with my camera. What it is, I cannot tell. Its a feeling, both intriguing and fearful. This search of something new is what keeps me moving and inspired.

What keeps you rooted?

A search for interesting subjects and a strong desire to understand them, keeps me rooted. For the longest time, I was also fearful of my feelings. I used to run away when I felt for something dearly. But I’m finally getting a hold over this fear. I now use my camera to capture and channelize those same feelings with a certain intensity and richness. In this way, my photography allows me to stay focussed. My overall endeavour is to engage with likeminded people, have exhaustive conversations with them, get into their headspace and revel in the change this experience brings about in me.

Interests

ai a.. where to start

Books, Poetry, Photography, Sport... how can anyone properly gauge this...

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• animals
• wildlife
• birds
• books
• poetry
• photography
• running
• sports
• rugby

Music, Movies, and Books

Beatles
Klangkarussel
St Germain
Dylan
Joplin
Baez
Donovan
Rodriguez
Otis Redding
John Lee Hooker
Indian Ocean,
Swarathma

Movie directors

Whale Rider
Ship of thesus
Won Kar Wai
Wes Anderson
Miyazaki
Star Wars
LOTR
Dull Action films at times, occasional soppy animations and romantics

Seriously way too many

Authors

Haruki Murakami
Pablo Neruba
Gabriel Marquez
William Blake
Patti Smith
Rainer Maria Rilke
Italo Calvino
Nicholas Bouvier
Walden Pond - Thoreau
John Berger
David Quammen
Susan Sontag

... even more here

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dived with turtles, drank with elephants, waited in bated breath for a tiger cocooned up a tree, explored caves in Madagascar.

Too little.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well i do know a thing or two about photography, being born and brought up in a culturally rich city like Calcutta the potential of seeing the smaller yet enriching things in life are plentiful, Calcutta i know like the back of my hand, and can show you around the most off- beat yet invigorating places in the city.

Bird watching, well not the birds on the streets but on the trees, having spent a considerable time in some of india's most beautiful forest's can show you a thing or two about a hobby that can soon become your friend anywhere in the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bhutan, Cambodia, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bangladesh, France, India, Madagascar, Nepal

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