Our younger daughter, Datti Kaur was assigned a challenging assignment by her Art teacher to transform a match box. We were impressed with what she finally created. A replica of Canon EOS 1100D digital camera. In the recent parent-teacher meet, her Art teacher summarized her art effort as “WOW”. Datti...
My article on Wildlife in Tibet has featured in Jan 2013 issue of Asian Geographic magazine. The relevant pages from the magazine can be viewed by clicking on the images below and scrolling. I have also provided the article content in text format for ease of reading. MOVING WITHOUT...
In the process of expansion to excel in our day to day pursuits, we generally forget to reflect and contemplate, which is the most important ingredient for the holistic growth of individuality. It is therefore, from time to time, I look at the pictures I have clicked and contemplate to...
Stories are the essence of our existence. While not everyone may be gifted to capture the moment that reflects a story but no one can deny being part of a story. It is our choice if we want to see a story unfold around us. Such opportunities exist in...
Tarni, our daughter returns home tomorrow, having been away for a semester at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Last week she shared with us her personal reflections. As parents we see in these words an Eagle that is learning to majestically face the world, flying directly into the storm...
Over there… On the other side… Where the sun sets… Or maybe… The moon…that rises… Veils of twirling simmering smoke… There are shades of You… Even in your anger…one reaches out… To feel you…where you reach out… To heal them…seal them…. (poem by Atamjot...
“To the plateau they come and go – mountain climbers, pilgrims, discoverers, volcanologists, tourists, storytellers. They speak of broken heights and transformed terrains – of eruptions and calamities long, long time ago: an immense volcanic memory remembered only by some deathless stones. Once in a...
Mt. Bromo is an active volcano in East Java, Indonesia. It lies within a 16-km wide caldera, known as the Tengger caldera. On the northern tip of the Tengger caldera lies another active volcano, called Sumeru. The Tengger caldera is a large depression in the land, formed through a volcanic...
Spontaneity is the essence of creativity. One needs to go beyond the controlling nature of mind, drop inhibitions, be free. In this childlike state, we become a mystic. Here I was at the Namgyal Lhatse Monastery in Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh, India), and the weather with constant raining, was clearly not...
Sometimes the act of photographing a simple object can be the catalyst to a thought! At around 23 km from Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh – Eastern India) lies the serene Penga Teng Tso (PT Tso) lake, at a height of 12,000 feet, surrounded by snow capped mountains. This lake has a...