The joys having your personal trainer and physiotherapist- unparalleled !!!!

An evening fighting boredom
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FINALLY HE GETS IT AND I BREAK DOWN, TEARS OF JOY

Cmon Sachin you are one run away, please get it!!

22 yards stands between Sachin and History!!

11.....

12 more runs, just 12 more....

Come March and suddenly this colorless pit they call Delhi is transformed. Bright red and orange semal flowers dot the horizon and honestly Delhi looks beautiful.
For two years i have been wanting to go out and shoot those flowers, but i was in US in 2010 and bed ridden in 2011.
However this year i managed to spend an evening, shooting them. I quite liked what i got.
Sharing the same here
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Quit smoking v 20.1.2- 8 hours and counting.

Insomnia gets worse, so here i am sitting in my study at 4 am listening to Death cab for the cutie on repeat.

And yet again I cannot sleep , two days of decent sleep and I am back to sleepless nights.

Lying awake for hours can do wonders for one’s thought process, all those thoughts pushed aside and shoved under the carpet jump at you like a rattle snake.

Just the other day at a shoot, I realized that one of the kids we had photographed died of the cold. She was nine months old, poor and her parents were drug addicts. I don’t know what to think, a part of me wants to believe it’s the best that could have happened, a life where poverty is your only hope, is not worth living. But then again a part of me screams out and wants to hold EVERYONE responsible for her death accountable. She was fucking 9 months old, and she had a right to live didn’t she?

We can all live in our wee bubbles and not care a fuck, but for how long?

The other thing that hit me hard was when photographing another slum kid, we asked him whats the one thing he would really want, and in all his innocence, he replied, “ I get only one of cup of tea a day, I would be happiest if I got two!!”

And there I was cribbing about my Earl Grey just that morning, cribbing about how I would rather not drink Darjeeling or English Breakfast but only Earl fucking Grey.

It struck me hard to think that every time I sit on an edit, I drink copious amounts of Earl Grey, and then there was this child so deprived that his parents could’nt buy him two cups of tea a day, two mere cups of tea costing not more than 5 rupees.

Fuck this Shyte !!!!

The post below was penned back in 2006- nothing has changed since


Part VI- 
Sunday Night Torture
My greasy friend Insomnia

With insomnia nothing is real, reality is far away, everything is a copy of a copy of a copy... when you have insomnia you are never really asleep and never really awake… a surreal dance of unwanted existence... you float within a bubble of never ending dejavu…no matter what you do… its never new… its beautiful..
Empty football fields of stark nothingness…reflections from your present demean the presence of your past.
Lost in an oblivion, dark, silent and complete... somewhere you find freedom... yet losing all hope in that freedom wrapped around you…. You become addicted... every night you die and every night you are born again…resurrected…….

Right then, the insomnia is back, haven't slept in 3 days. Its 4 30 and i have a shoot in 3 hours, there is no point i even try sleeping now...

So i was chatting with James and Atif this evening, and its clear that i have to head back to Glasgow this year.

Its been 6 years and the Calling is loud and clear.

End of the year, i should be in Glasgow for a week

Right, so another earthquake struck Delhi this afternoon. damn i can't handle them. There i was sitting and eating lunch staring at some tulips in a vase, when all hell broke lose in my head.

Aright folks... after much deliberation, loss of sleep, arguments, et al. The website is up and running. ( a lot of final touches remain) Many thanks to Maria Philipose, Gaurav Swaroop and Richard Devlar.
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Nothing better than having a client walk out with tears of Joy.. Mission Accomplished !!!

Edit Over.. Finally a shower after 3 long days!!! Bloody brilliant