Father and daughter on Juhu Beach.
morning watch
a constable from the mumbai traffic police overlooking bandobast (arrangements) for an event in south mumbai.
inside a rick
the wide angle view within a typical mumbai auto rickshaw. for more photographs of transport in mumbai, click here.
time to hollaback!
in the photo above: a group of koli fisherwomen from the versova village smile enthusiastically at the annual koli sea food festival in versova.
the "ihollaback!" movement's mumbai chapter launches its presence on social media this week. from their website: "Hollaback is a global movement dedicated to ending street harassment. Hollaback!Mumbai is primarily a space for women to share their stories and other creative expressions about their experiences being harassed. In doing so, we are creating a safe, crowd-sourced initiative to end street harassment"
MindlessMumbai is pleased to be associated with the hollaback movement, by providing photographic material to illustrate their cause. do stop by the mumbai hollaback! website and connect with them on facebook here.
window to the city
looking over south central mumbai from one of its high-rises. in the left foreground is the s-bridge that crosses the central railway line. its soon going to be demolished, to be replaced by one of the soulless structures that make up most of the infrastructure built in mumbai today. the green patch to its left is the mumbai zoo and the little building jutting out of the tree cover is the beautiful bhau daji lad museum.
for more mumbai_scapes, click on the "landscape" label.
what do i see?
hello hello. mindless mumbai has been laying low for a while. i've been in a not very happy phase when it comes to my collection of photos of mumbai. hoping to change that in the coming weeks.
i've realised that sometimes its easier to capture a space when one is a short term visitor as opposed to being a permanent resident. when one is the latter, one needs to question one's ways of seeing even more often.
in the photo: one of the installations at the 2011 kala ghoda art festival.
cheering time
cheer leaders keeping the spirits high at dawn at the 2011 mumbai marathon. and a couple of things that are keeping me cheerful:
update1: browse through some of my published photographic works, here.
update2: mindless mumbai and kb.photography photos are now being published by CondensCity as thought-cards. check out a rather inspiring one here.
and finally, to use any of my photographic words or to discuss an assignment or to just say a hello, do drop in a line at kunal.n.bhatia[at][gmail][dot][com]. i promise to reply to all (the supposedly dozens of emails) :-)
my dog thinks i am
i spotted this sign outside the rehab centre at the mount mary church, and it made me smile: "lord, help me be the person my dog thinks i am"
surging ahead
a participant at the 2011 mumbai marathon surging ahead, with school children cheering him on.
