And here is the real full Patch - unmacroed!

A macro close up of Patch

Yalla helikopter!
Kowloon

COCO - What is this all about now? (psst- i dont know!)

While i was packing for HK.

Just leaving office - view from the car park at sunset.
Lower Parel, Mumbai.

Street vendor who gave us some chana chaat - very spicy stuff!
Bandstand, Mumbai

PATCH!

Sunday in town. The rains are going to land in another week. The winds have started blowing.

Just a shot i took last year. OfTheLamp

What else?

Last year in Kamshet near Mumbai - the rain, the smell of the goats and this posing shepherd. 

GOA! The PNJ 327 on a black night on the Panjim river. 

The mumbai floods in 2006 - after this photo, the downpour was incessant. 

 

Mumbai blasts- BAU is the answer?

The mumbai blasts happened yesterday. Today, offices are open, the sensex went up and people are on the trains again. Like nothing happened. TV channels are saying its a good thing.

So its going to happen again, right?

Almost 200 people died yesterday, and its business as usual here. What is the message we are sending to the terrorists? Go ahead, bomb our cities, its ok, we'll bounce back. We dont care.

What would have been the response in other countries. Action would have been taken. People would have wanted to know what is being done. They would have been answered.

People in Mumbai however, are just waiting for the next train.

Mumbai has become and organism, and not a collective human society. For an organism, if one part decays, it is discrded and the organism survives. Human society however, would look at more than discarding the decayed piece. It would look at healing it. Mumbai survives alright, but only to wait for another blast.

Who did it is not the question to be asked? Somebody would always have the motivation to bomb a train full of people. What are we doing to prevent this from happening again? Going back to office and pretending it never happened. That the blasts which took away 200 lives did not spark a communal riot? Great. Lets wait for it to then.

All pictures of the weddings, of my brother and mine (2 weddings, in case you are confused...my brother and i got married in a gap of 9 days!), are by parul.

he took some awesome shots. Thanks pal!

my brothers on the horse- its so colourful aint it? 

me and my future current wife! before my wedding