Faces.
They tell you a story. A story that has never been told. A story that longs to be heard.


These faces and these stories have an existence. But this very existence becomes questionable when the trap is an ancient disease.


The disease was called 'Consumption' and rightly so has consumed humans like none other. It doesn't seem to cease even after taking billons of lives. 


The look of despair, the hunger, the poverty fill the world of those affected. The very existence of these souls is now being questioned by their own beliefs.

Tuberculosis kills.
It is now turning into a man-made epidemic with newer strains which are difficult but not impossible to cure.

How far can we go from here is for us to decide? Are we fighting the stigma well enough? Are we giving enough attention and care to these souls?

Author's note: These photographs were taken in the slums of Jaipur, India. Misery that the patients and their relatives are going through is evident in their eyes.

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Yet another post on these patients and their families fighting the disease which is also referred to as an ancient disease which still exists and still kills.

These are some of the patients who are fighting the situation and the stigma that comes with tuberculosis. For them, every day is a survival. These are sad faces and happy faces and sad faces within happy faces.

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Its amazing to see and take notice of the colors that are present around you when you are walking into a not-very-well-to-do-locality, which are otherwise also called slums. And its almost as fascinating to see how these colors in the newly painted walls and brightly painted doors create a different world altogether.

You will perhaps never get to see such a thing in a well-to-do neighborhood but is a trite in slums and old parts of Delhi (and other older parts of the country too). Either the walls are newly painted with bright yellows, greens and blues (and even pinks!), or the walls have not been painted for years or carry marks of local graffiti that makes them totally amusing.

I recently got to visit such a locality (as a matter of fact, I get many more chances, but hardly have my camera around to put it all up here…), and as it turned out, amongst the colors on the walls, the doors and the rust on the gates, there was so much pain and hardship in the lives of these people, that no one really gets to notice the colorful and beautiful (ironical, eh!) world around them.

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You find them everywhere; in every nook and corner... some trying to hide their faces while some trying to rise above the suffering.

No matter where you go, poverty is around you. No matter how rich you are, it is still around you!

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This one was taken during Feb 2009 in Goa, India. That was the time when i never owned a camera. It is quite a nice concept though. I could have done a lot better with an SLR for sure. ... I call this Beerise!

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It was in October 2009 that I got a chance to explore West Bengal a bit. I had joined KWS (Kolkata Weekend Shoots; also called Kolkata Weekend Foodies :-)). That was probably my first and the last exhaustive road trip with the club. But I enjoyed every moment of it though language was a bit of problem!



I got some amazing shots that day and got back home really happy and content. I’m sharing some of the shots here. Can find the masters on My Flickr.

   

.Live . Laugh . Love.

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This post is a collection of some of the most colorful shots that i have clicked in recent times.

First shot is of a Kid who was playing near the ARTS faculty of Shantiniketan University in Bengal.


Next is of a toy flower. This shot was taken while I was in a village near Guptipara, Bengal. Been some 4-5 months now. That was infact my first shoot with KWS; Kolkata Weekend Shoots. And I don’t deny it; was quite an amazing trip.
 

This one is also from the same trip. Saw a couple of them there.


The following photograph is personally one of my favorites; Simple in composition with some vibrant blue is soothing in its own sense.

More will follow.

.Love . Live . Laugh.

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