On shoot in Darjeeling, once again back with the demand for Gorkhaland.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Balancing Act
Taken by who else but Vinayak Dasgupta on his "decisive moment capturing drive" in Assam, in some corner of the river.
Adda
Adda in Assam. Bilu and I on a cha and adda session near Umananda temple complex on the Bramhaputra. Again the genius of Gobindo.
Boat on the Bramhaputra
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says that this state has to live forever with ULFA and floods. Two things that many other than him have accepted to be an integral part of life. This photograph taken by our man on the wheels, the one and only Gobindo Das. A classic, unknown Japanese film poster-ish shot of this boat on the Bramhaputra.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Pangs of Adoption
This is a photograph , I took, in a school in Dimapur. We were travelling in Nagaland, for a 30 minutes on the state before the elections. Dimapur, now, wears the look of a dead town. Continous factional clashes between the NSCN(IM) and NSCN(unification) have turned the town in one of the most dangerous places to live in. ( more on Dimapur and the Naga factional clashes later)
One of the most respected journalists of the country, Patricia Mukhim has written an excellent article titled: Pangs of Adoption in The Telegraph, Guwahati edition. Ms Mukhim writes in Northeast India's tribal societies the death of one or both parents does not necessarily make a child an orphan. She says, members of the extended family quickly take the child or children under their wings and life goes on an usual. But she points out, how times are changing. "The pressure to conform to modern value systems where church marriages are sacrosanct and those who do not meet up to those standards and fall by the wayside are actually ex-communicated is forcing deviants to go for abortion or disown and abandon a child born out of wedlock. Hence the growing number of abandoned kids.."
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