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Category Archives: Photoblog

A little bit of Golden Gate from Pier 39

24-Oct-09

Diwali 2009 pictures from The Big Picture

24-Oct-09

A awesome set of Diwali picture from the always excellent The Big Picture blog. Be sure to check them out.

Gates to Hell

11-Jun-08

Amazing pictures of a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan. [via]: IndiaUncut

A box of spices

18-May-08

A sound scape of the box of spicesThis image shows a box of spices. There is one big box and every individual spice is kept in its own box. You will be able to sense the different circles belonging to different boxes.

Streaked

22-Mar-08

… art, because Jackson Pollock pulled this off.

Happy Holi!!

22-Mar-08

To all the desis out there… Happy Holi !!  My brother is not particularly fond of the Holi mess and sometimes the celebrations can turn rather nasty (what with people sailing on bhang and all that) but I love it and that’s one of the things that I miss living here in the US. Just [...]

vOICE in action: Wheel valves for the uninitiated and others

20-Mar-08

Wheel valves for the uninitiated A picture of pipes and veal valves on my terrace. These valves resemble miniature steering wheels. They are used to control the flow of water A overhead tanks to my house. A water tank and it’s associated down take pipes Sound scape of water tankThis image is of a water [...]

Road to XL

07-Mar-07

Entrance to one of the hostels at XLRI, Jamshedpur.

In Calcutta

20-Feb-07

I’m in Calcutta right now and it amazes me how much of the city resembles Bombay. Like Bombay, the city has a lot of character and driving here is far less aggravating than in Delhi (where I live), although the roads are as crowded as in Bombay. Like Bombay, it has the same narrow roads [...]

A Lapse in Bangalore

03-Feb-07

Courtesy Abhishek Narain.

The tallest quadruped

20-Aug-06

The Great Indian Hornbill

20-Aug-06

Wisdom at the back

12-Apr-06

Trucks in India have the weirdest of slogans printed at their backs. Here’s a couple of pictures of their wise posteriors after the fold. These are from my trip to India in September of 2005. There is the customary suggestion to “Horn Please” and to “Keep Distance”. Seriously wouldn’t we have been so very poor [...]