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Alluring Alibaug
I live in a farmhouse at Alibaug with my three dogs and six cats. This calm coastal village is home to regular inspiration behind many of my paintings. In fact, the paint I use is also utilised by the...
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Enchanting Egypt
When you see the Pyramids, temples like Abu Simbel, Luxor and the Valley of the Kings, Egypt almost always exudes a sense of reliving that era... And of all these sites, the temple of Rameses II at...
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Cruising down the Nile
All along the banks of the beautiful Nile are monuments built by the great Pharaohs of Egypt. The Nile Cruise takes you to all the important sites starting at Aswan in Upper Egypt before going up to...
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Contradictory Cairo
Cairo is a city where the ancient Pharaonic culture lives alongside a 21st century city. And it’s quite amazing to glimpse the great Pyramids of Giza from my hotel room. One can’t help but wonder at...
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Rotorua—the city of sulphur
This work, titled ‘Emergence’ was inspired by the Rotorua hot springs in New Zealand. Rotorua is a calm little town in New Zealand renowned for its sulphur baths. The peaceful township comprises one...
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Venice reinterpreted
This series of paintings were inspired by my first trip to—overwhelming—Venice. All the photographs were taken by me while exploring different parts of the iconic Italian city and there, more often...
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Mumbai mayhem
These two paintings are from my Mumbai inspired series of paintings and as always, I work with my own photography. I was fascinated by the street life in Mumbai—everything seems so chaotic yet...
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Rio de Janeiro carnival
The Brazilian transvestite series was inspired by a trip to Rio wherein I had the opportunity to photograph a transvestite parade. Rio de Janeiro is a city like no other with stunning panoramic views,...
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Of conflicts, contradictions and complex politics
My family migrated to West Bengal on the eastern fringes of India in 1947 when, against the bloody backdrop of Partition, India and Pakistan were born as two separate nations. Consequently, in 1971, a...
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Valmiki’s Ramayana
Diane de Selliers, a well known publisher in France, released a French translation of Valmiki's Ramayana this month. It's the fruit of ten years of meticulous work that Diane’s publication in Paris...
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