Delhi Jazz festival 2012 ended last Sunday at Nehru Park, New Delhi, India

Delhi Jazz Festival 2012 was celebrated at Nehru Park in New Delhi for 3 days, which started on last Friday and ended on Sunday. (16th March- 18th March, 2012). I also thought of visiting it for some time on second day which was off for me from office. I reached the place at 6:30 pm which was time for beginning of the evening on second day of Delhi Jazz Festival 2012. At first a local band from Delhi University performed and then next one was from Georgia. Overall environment around the place was awesome and I am still a non-Jazz fellow :) ... Will surely plan to visit Delhi Jazz Festival 2013 to really understand this form of music !

Piyush Tewari at TEDx Connaught Place to talk about SaveLIFE Foundation and how it operates in some part of India !!!

Recently attended TEDx show at Delhi and Mr. Piyush Tewari was first speaker of the TEDx evening. He works on improving situations of Road Accidents and helping people after an accident. Currently people avoid to help in case of road accidents to avoid unnecessary tension of police and court. Tewari's organization work with local police to make people aware about helping road accidents. He works with frequent road travelers and try to track down accident location through some of the wonderful technologies. I recommend watching this video online. For more photographs and details about this event, check out http://phototravelings.blogspot.in/2012/02/tedx-connaught-place-on-impacting.html

TEDx Connaught Place with a theme around 'Impacting Issues we Ignore'

Recently a TEDx event happened in Connuaght Place of Delhi, India. This episode of TEDx was around 'Impacting Issues we Ignore' and 8 speakers from different walks of life presented their ideas and how they are executing them in different sectors of India. Most of them talked about some social issues in India and working on them. To know more about this show and more photographs, check out http://phototravelings.blogspot.in/2012/02/tedx-connaught-place-on-impacting.html

A Music Enthusiast playing Sitar during one of the evening at 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2012

This photograph was shot during one of the evenings of 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav, when Byomtesh play was being shown. There is a character in this play who plays sitar at home, although it was a scene when background music was running...

Bharat Rang Mahotsav is one of the popular international Theater festival organized by National School of  Drama, Delhi. Ministry of Culture is also one of the active organization which takes care of funding for such theater festivals. This time focus was mainly on plays around Rabindarnath Tagore. This year Ministry of Culture is celebrating as 150th birthday of Rabindarnath Tagore.

One of the prop from the set of 'Grotowski - An Attmpt to Retreat' during Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2012

Bharat Rang Mahotsav is going on in Captial City of Delhi and various plays from different parts of the world are being shown at NSD, Kamani, SRC and LTG etc. This photograph was clicked during one of the plays 'Grotowski - An Attmpt to Retreat', which are presented by a group from Poland.

Click on the photograph above in case you want to know more about this play or see more photographs...

A lovely Architecture form just outside President's House in Delhi, INDIA

Theatre Actor during 'Grotowski - An Attempt to Retreat', Directed by Tomasz Rodowicz, CHOREA Theatre Association, Lodz, Poland

This Photograph is clicked at Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2012. This play was presented yesterday at Kamani Auditorium. This is done by CHOERA Theatre Association, Lodz, Poland. 

To know more about the play, check out http://www.chorea.com.pl/en/productions/grotowski-an-attempt-to-retreat/

More photographs from this play will be shared  on PHOTO JOURNEY soon...

Anuradha Kapur Welcoming Sharmila Tagore on Inaugural ceremony of 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav || 8th Jan, 2012

On 8th January'2012, Sharmila Tagore was there in Kamani Auditorium as Guest of Honor for inaugural ceremony of 14th Bharat Rang Mahotsav. Bharangam is one of the popular theatre festival of India and considered as biggest festival in Asia. National School of Drama organize this festival with support fro Ministry of Culture. Kumari Selja was also present during the ceremony, which is MInister of Culture, India. 

Theatre groups from various parts of world are invited to present their work and experiments done in the field of Theatre. Various plays will be shown during Bharat Rang Mahotsav - 8th Jan to 22nd Jan 2012 !!!

14th Bharat Rang Mahotav is starting this weekend @ National School of Drama, Delhi

Bharat Rang Mahotsav is starting this weekend and lot of popular plays will be showcased during this fest. If you are Theatre lover and in Delhi, just go and enjoy the series of wonderful plays at National School of Drama, Kamani and Srifort Auditorium. 

Here you will be able to see many known faces from Television shows and Bollywood.

For more details, check out http://www.nsdtheatrefest.com/festival.php

Holidays start from today || It's shutdown time in office

It's the same time of year when everything shuts down at office for 10 days, so that everyone can enjoy the festive season well. Shutdown at our office starts today and we shall be back on 2nd Jan'2012 with new energies. 

At the same time I am very excited about travel plans during next week. Today I am leaving for chandigarh and will move into hills and not sure about the destination for New year. All the plans will be made on fly and hope to utilize the vacations well. 

For now, Merry Christmas and I will back to wish New year soon !!!

Sadhu in Saffron colored dress and Rudraksh || Expressions of NSD, Delhi, India

 

This photograph was shot during a play by Ranjit Kapoor. The name of this play was Aadamzad. Ranjit Kapoor is one of the famous directors in Indian Theatre. But this photograph is shared to highlight the life of Sadhus around us. I was wondering, if really these Brahmcharis or Sadhus so happy. I know that everyone in life is racing except few who have realized the importance of life. But is this one of the good way of spending life?

Night shot of Jantar Mantar in Delhi, INDIA

Jantar Mantar in Delhi is very close to center of the city, Canought Place. Also this place is very popular, especially nowadays Anna ji come here very frequently. Although the exact place is not this. Jantar Mantars in India are one of the amazing things we have got as heritage. Such a lovely time yantras. Check out following link to see more photographs form the place, with detailed information - Check here

Zoom-In Zoom-Out Magic from Humayun Tomb, Delhi, INDIA

Recently I went to Humayun tomb for shooting Lunar Eclipse 2011 and some of the folks were well equipped for capturing this eclipse with Humayun' tomb in front of the Moon Trail. results are yet to come, but at same time I was playing with my lens. This Photograph was taken by an exposure of 20 seconds, out of which 5 second exposure for Zoom-Out and different exposure of 3 seconds in various Zoom-In levels. More photographs form this shoot can be checked at HUMAYUN TOMB

President's House with very High Security @ Delhi, INDIA

Lunar Eclipse 2011 - 10th December

Most of the photographers in India were really excited on 10th December because we had lunar eclipse that day and it was in December, which is comparatively good for Dehlites.  Many photographers moved to different cities in India to shoot this Lunar Eclipse. Some of my friends had special permissions to shoot at various monuments in Delhi and I also joined one of the group at Humayun Tomb. I know this photograph is not very special, so will share the real project with all shapes of Moon with Humayun Tomb in foreground. Some of the casual shots can be seen HERE

Indian Kite-flying king with his family @ Old Delhi, INDIA

I will not write much about Bhai Mian, as he doesn't need any introduction. In case you want to know more about Bhai Mian, check out http://phototravelings.blogspot.com/2011/12/bhai-mian-kite-flying-superhero-from.html

Garden of five senses during evening @ Delhi , INDIA

Garden of Five Senses is a nice place maintained by Delhi Tourism and more popular among couples. There are some nice sculptures installed around the garden and look wonderful during evenings. I am not sure if these are lit everyday or for some special occasions.

Can you read expressions - What does this expression say?

One of my friend was here in Noida with his son. I also met him for very short span of time and clicked few photographs. Out of all, I really loved this expression although I don't know what it conveys. Do you have any idea?

Religare Art Gallery showcasing their artwork @ INDIA ART SUMMIT 2011

Some unique trends of Old Delhi - Kabootarbazi !!!

Last weekend I visited Jama-Masjid in Old Delhi and also interacted few folks around this place. During the visit I met a very interesting family who also offered me to come on roof-top to have a different view of Old Delhi (Dilli-6). 

On roof-top, there were approximately 60 pigeons. One of the gentleman also told be about a unique trend of Old Delhi. All these pigeons fly in a group and at times they make a huge groups of around 1000 pigeons. When any of the owner ask his/her group to come back, most of the others also prefer to check at home. During such flights, at times some pigeons plan to join other group and go to other house. In this case original owner loose the right to get that pigeon back. If s/he wants that pigeon back, appropriate money needs to be paid as per breed of that pigeon. And this payment has no guarantee that pigeon will not go to other groups. This thing is religiously followed in Old Delhi region !!!

More interesting stories will follow from Old-Delhi !!!