This document provides glimpses into the author's travels throughout India captured through photographs. It describes experiences in cities like Varanasi, Calcutta, New Delhi, and Orchha. Scenes include religious sites, street life, landscapes, and architectural details. The author reflects on India's rich history and heritage visible in its buildings, and hopes these works of art will be preserved and developed.

1. INDIA AS IT IS
The impression of past has traded a long & dusky
way, leaving sights & experiences to experience, for
time captured and missed in India are mystic

2. (body), Lens
Nikon 50mm,
open aperture,
bulb setting,
ambient light,
on tri-pod.
Varanasi –
Gangarti – 2002
I have been
there through
my view finder,
it was long &
spiritual.

3. …multiplex –
apartments – low
floor buses – IT
boom – urban
infrastructure - nothing can buy
the heart of
Bengal… dusty
roads, boundless

4. “There was neither
good
Nor bad there.
There were just
facts,
It was life.”
- Of Human
Bondage

5. Portraits, events, street
life, object noticed or
left alone, we have enjoyed
the vagabond ways together.
We were there to shoot – me

6. Calcutta & her
pale afternoons
- 2002

7. Manikarn
ika
Temple –
Varanasi
– 2003 .
Under
the moon
light
Once he
thought
of
paying
off his
mother‟s
debt
His ego
erected
this

8. Micromax Q3+
1280x1024/high/
EV 0
Tempest on the
face of the God

9. Night fly by
Calcutta in Black & White Motion-blur
It‟s the same old city seeking isolation after the day
long work – let‟s call it a night

10. capital, this city has
had many heritages.
We hope there will be
restoration &
development of these
work-of-art, dynamic or
static
Warm regards
Kolikata
Calcutta
Kolkata

11. New Delhi,
while
spending a
lazy day
in the
heights of
Medieval
India, I
found one
stairway
to heaven.
At that
time, I
didn‟t have a
wide angle
lens. Hence,
I couldn‟t
have the
Colossal
holiness.
St. Paul‟s
Cathedral
Church of
New Delhi
Skyline
March 2003
Political
road show
is the
nerve of
Kolkata.
„nothing
official
about it‟

12. Sun
shine
on
the
water
makes
me
blind
…

13. Divid
ed we
fall
Lookin
g for
inside
out
Imposs
ible
separa
tion
Gm7
th
Grai
ns

14. Daw
n
Dus
k
Da

15. Greenvironmental
To cry you a
song

16. Delhi by
January 2002
Magnets & miracle

17. Orchha
The Relaxing
Isolation … … …

18. This country has
many such towers,
fascinating
facts; arched
under the volumes
of her history.
India is around
us. Dig it or
dump it, choice
is ours.
Doors of perception, places we
haven't been to; waiting to
share their stories, only if we
explore the lights of the
darkness, lend our ears to the

19. It is time; to
recapitulate the
lessons of antiquity
in the confusing
present of our being,
for there was light &
bold vision, of where
The pillars of our
civilization are
engraved with
culture. If we want

20. And I have looked
into your eyes.
Cold as a bold
tycoon
With desperation
of longing hours.
Sparkling very
controlled
For that dreams
she adores.
Matured, wisdom
of its own.
And, when that
she was betrayed?
By the kiss of
freedom… madre!

21. rewards
Nor do we want
our pictures
In the calendar
of years…
Just tell our
story simply
To those shall
not see,
Tell those who
will replace usWe fought
courageously.
Nikola
Vaptsarov

22. All Rights Reserved 2010 Debashis Kar Last Update June 2010