Indian Bazaars

The Bazaars in India are spaces for everyday but they are also places where vendors express themselves through their creative displays, ...

This blog has been writing about and photographing bazaars. So, many of the posts are about experiences in the bazaars in Kerala, in Chennai...

You see a bundle of cloth and nothing else for that moment. And, as you photograph it, the bundle has eliminated that which you have seen th...

There's a painting with 'puffed rice, parboiled rice and chillis'. There is another painting further down the market which is ...

Christopher Day in his book 'Places for the soul' speaks of photographs as fragments of experience. I agree with him in that art an...

In October 2006, it was the Festival of lights all over the country. That Diwali , as in the Diwali the year before, there were more flowers...

An earlier post "Art & Representation" is about looking into a "painting". One may read a little about why art is, w...

in the bazaar, space is ... both what we see and what we know it is not known what is private what is public space is eternity you sell, you...

How did "art installations" come into being? Where was its birthplace? What did an art installation do when it first appeared? Wha...

Art in everyday spaces the first pure still-life born out of need to live, to grow what we do what we think how we create how we express

the painted painting the photographed image the designed space the theatre AND the stage it confronts us not as immediate sight but as exper...

In the old days, at Kumily, it was heaps of cardamom and pepper that you passed by as you walked the main street. Today, strings of spice pa...

Each vendor finds his own way of displaying the goods and makes a shelter within the given area with materials locally and easily available,...