Last year, around December, I went on a college trip to Rajasthan. Now, think of Rajasthan and you’ll get flashes of very typical images, the turbaned old man, camels in the desert, the folk dancers, etc. I clicked my own share of these. (couldn’t resist the temptation!) But I tried to do something different.
The above picture was clicked at the Sam desert in northern Rajasthan. There was this herd of camels basking in the sun with their owners and everyone was clicking the camels and their owners giving wide grins. I saw something gleaming in the sun and realised it was this cool bike parked in the middle of the road. And this one camel kept staring, rather glaring at it and after a few moments, just sat down and continued stealing glances at the bike. It was as if the camel, the ancient mode of transport felt inferior to the new motorized form of transport. Somehow the frame seemed to be quite ‘bike print ad material’ and I clicked, what I think is my best picture (in terms of telling a story) till date.
There is a fort at Udaipur, in which thrives an entire small town, even today. There are shops, a school, and hotels inside the fort. The fort has this amazing labyrinth of lanes and by-lanes, in which each house has a different story to tell. The Rajasthani quilts with their weird splashes of colour are laid out on the streets or hung over head to dry. Small children play hide and seek inside the fort walls, while old men sit at the doors, smoking pot. The second picture is of a little girl, who was playing hide and seek with her friends and when I clicked her photo, she actually put her finger to her lips, indicating that I shouldn’t tell anyone where she was hiding!
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