Kumbh 2013...

Going to the Kumbh mela this year was one of the most exceptional things I did in life. I can share my experiences with words, but I think the images speak much much more than I can ever express in words.

The women at the ghats, with a Trishul in the central shot. I clicked people, almost unabashedly, it was awesome to capture them candidly...

And the men at the ghats...

Some of the most interesting people at Kumbh are the Naga babas...

The Naga babas don't wear clothes, and cover themselves with only ash. Ash keeps them warm during the winters, and its also a constant reminder that we will turn into ash sooner or later...

Portraits over the year...

Sharing a collage of some of my favorite portraits over the past one year...

Untitled. River. Alive.

The association is ending now, and some warm feelings linger. And the fact that I can completely relate to the philosophy made it even more amazing...watch the Alive is Awesome videos to know what I mean.

My last post in this series is a poem, and as yet Untitled...

Untitled...

I could walk on the water, I could fall from the sky,

I could live like this everyday, I could be like this forever.

I break away from the world, I break away from myself,

I am just an entity, so full of joy,

I am a speck of happiness, a dot on the map,

I am content, and I am complete.

I am away from the world, in my own world,

In water with myself, at peace with myself.

Everything so alive, everything so awesome,

The shower of the cold water, the smell of soft earth,

The fear of the unexpected, the love for it,

The freshness of the moss…

The imagination blurring into reality...

I feel myself waking up,

My feet and my hands itching to go out and splash again,

Time to feel alive in the awesomeness of it again….

The above is an attempt to capture the interplay of my dreams and reality as I thought about this trip (Zanzari Falls, Gujarat). I think it was far more romantic to end my last post of this campaign by sharing my innermost thoughts, and revive some old forgotten memories...