Women boxers in Bangalore

Women boxers from the city. Read it here:http://www.su-journaljottings.blogspot.in/2012/08/gals-who-pack-punch.htm

Vibha (21), Pavitra (23), Vidya (16) and Raechel (15).
Four of the nine women boxers from Karnataka. Raechel won a bronze medal at the recently concluded sub-junior championships. Karnataka won 2 bronze medals, the only medals that Karnataka has ever won in women's boxing.

21-year-old Vibha. The first time she got punched on the bridge of her nose she went ballistic and hit her sparring partner hard -the moves had nothing to do with boxing :)

Raj Kumar coaches the 9 women boxers that Bangalore has. The youngest joined last month -she's nine-and-a-half years old.

Vibha says that 95% of the boys are supportive and encouraging. The remaining 5%? She doesn't care.

23-year-old Pavitra wants to be an IAS officer. Every morning when she goes for boxing training at 5 am her mother asks her: "Why do you want to do this? You should be getting married instead."

Pavitra stood 3rd in a Kannada reality show based on the lines of Fear Factor

15-year-old Raechel won the bronze medal at the sub-junior national women's boxing championship. The first medal that Karnataka has won in women's boxing -ever!

16-year-old Vidya wants just one thing in life: To win an Olympic medal like Mary Kom. But her mother is worried that her daughter's beautiful face might be marred and that might affect her future.

Pavitra is also an athlete

Power tools -well, what can I say :)

When in doubt....

Sometimes when you are in doubt the best thing to do is to stay still :

Wheels of colour

Colorful life, for some; colorless for others

Illusion or....

Reflections --are they mirror images of illusions?

Man's view

Contemporary representation of the 'Bird's eye view'.

Two days ago I went to a quaint little chocolate factory; this photo was shot there. Surrounded by tempta-licious goodies I realized how much I missed baking and making chocolates. Over the years, I had let myself be gobbled up by the business of day-to-day living and forgotten all the things that I did, which gave me immense satisfaction. That's when I decided to spend Sundays doing none of the things that I usually did during the rest of the week.

Dive in....

It took me more than 20 years to get over my fear of water. I have been learning to swim the past two weeks. It's been difficult, but I have begun to enjoy the water and swim a wee-bit too :) It's a nice feeling to realize that you have actually begun to enjoy what you once feared dearly....

 

Bath time

Hannah getting ready for a bath. Is she a Hannah? I don't know....but she definitely looks and feels like a Hannah to me :)

Low Rhyderz

They are the first hip hop band from Bangalore. A delightful bunch of young men with great manners and even greater passion for music. And yeah, their sounds rock!

Emotions in monochrome

Mirror, mirror on the wall --who is the oldest of 'em all?

Invisible men!

These men are responsible for maintaining the grounds at the Bangalore Turf Club. You remove them from the scene, the race course will go crazy like a wild horse. But, in reality nobody really notices them or pays much attention to. They are the invisible milieu

Girls just wanna have fun

This was taken in Bangalore. The little girls were having fun playing in the land-fill area. No fancy toys for them, just each other for company resulting in lots of laughter and joy.

Cheers!

Meenakshi and Arvind Raju. The bro-sis duo behind The Biere Club, Bangalore's first microbrewery. They also find a place in the list of Young Acheivers, Society Annual 2012

A lifetime

Woman: A colourful tome of secrets

This picture is of a girl who was my house help. A pretty woman, full of beans. A free spirit at heart, but bound by her environment -poverty, lack of education, religious and societal norms. But her eyes speak volumes of unrealized dreams bubbling within.

Dreamin' Monkey

Dreaming of blue skies, green trees and swinging branches; of playmates and play dates...
He was the one I encountered first when I entered the Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre in Bangalore. He was in a cage, enjoying the sun and contemplating on monkey-life.
He was rescued by the shelter and is being rehabilitated. In a week or two he'd be released into the forest to join his family.
Maybe he was dreaming of that day.

Here's to natural light :)

For a long time I resisted using artificial lights while shooting. I enjoyed the challenges of shooting in available light. Then I discovered that shooting with strobes can be equally challenging and fun -it's akin to painting with light. But, every now and then I go back to my roots -i.e shooting in available light.

Today, I did an interesting food shoot at Zaffran on St.Marks Road, Bangalore; foods that are made with ingredients considered aphrodisiacs. It's for the Sunday edition of Bangalore Mirror. Will post the pics and recipes here: www.su-kitchen.blogspot.com

This was shot in between shots at the food shoot. There was beautiful, soft, natural light filtering through large windows -delightful!

Compose, focus and click -shooting in natural light is that easy :)

Colourful monsoons

Rains bring out the 'ugly' in the city: dirty roads, clogged drains, concrete buildings turn a gloomy grey in the rains. But here it brought out the colours of the city. This was shot in Bangalore.

Through the windshield

I was driving to work when this image unfolded before me. It had begun to rain. I was at the traffic signal when I saw school children rushing through the narrow gate of the school. There were peeling film posters on the walls of the school -a common sight in Bangalore. The entire image was wrapped by the water droplets on my car windshield. I love this image

My daddy bestest !

Curry fans from Korea

A scene straight from a Korean Huckleberry Finn or some such classics of yore?? :) Apparently the Koreans love Indian curry
Seven youngsters had come to Bangalore from Korea to experience Indian cuisine. There was a cooking workshop/demonstration at Tattva by Chef Sanjay Tyagi. This pic was taken at the end of the demo. The Koreans love curry and naan and how....
You can read the story here:
http://www.su-journaljottings.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-indian-rope-trick-is-curry.html#links