Times of India pastes a picture taken by Kalyan Verma at its front page, lifted it out of Wikipedia. And before that they picked up a picture taken by PlaneMad. But then what is new!
Archive for the 'Photography' Category
Times of India at it Again
Published by February 11th, 2010 in Activism, Blogging, Media, Photography and Plagiarism. 1 CommentOn a cloudy Bangalore day, you should be thrilled at nature. If you haven’t caught a glimpse yet, take a look at Lakshmi’s blog:
A very interesting blog that has a huge collection of old pictures, some of them taking us as far back in time as the 1850s! Definitely worth a visit.
Thulasi Das has posted some wonderful shots from his trip to Kashmir. Go and check them out.
Two pictures that would leave you in silence. The first is Isolation by Vimal and the second is Indraputhran by Thulasi. Check them out.
Eid pictures
Published by September 21st, 2009 in India, Photoblog, Photography and Religion. 1 CommentThe Sacromento Bee blog posts assorted Eid pictures from India.
Daughters of India
Published by September 11th, 2009 in Patriarchy, Photography and Women. 0 CommentsA collection of truly brilliant photographs by Fazal Shaikh, a photographer and an artist posted by May :
Abandoned widows of India who have been driven to the safety of ashrams in a holy city where they exchanged prayers for food and unwanted girls and women in Indian culture, this time showing the faces and bits [...]
Kshitiz tries to come to terms of being a documentary photographer and explains us why sometimes it is so difficult to leave one’s emotions even professionally.
There are moments that makes your heart cry out in despair. One of the subjects that I spotted was this traveler (he had a travel bag with him) [...]
Arun calls it ‘marks of hard work.’ And I am not revealing anymore, you have to go and have a look.
Pictures from a Rainy Day
Published by August 31st, 2009 in Photoblog, Photography and South Asia. 0 CommentsAnil captures a rainy day through his pictures in Dhaka. I explored a lot of his other pictures too.
scratchpost has posted a series of pictures from her Ladakh trip. Brilliantly done! Go check them all out.
Rehab Chougle posts some pictures from the Great wall of Mumbai project.
Satie has a collection of beautiful and I mean really beautiful collection of pictures at his site. His bird pictures (the feathered variety) are truly amazing.
More on that Last Stand of Gandhi Photo
Published by July 14th, 2009 in India and Photography. 0 CommentsThis “rare photo” has been doing the rounds on the Internet..
Seems it’s not for real. It’s taken from the movie “9 Hours to Rama“.
More at the Blindboys blog (via Akshay on Twitter)
India, Incredible India?
Published by July 4th, 2009 in India, Photoblog and Photography. 0 CommentsJuslykthat clicks some pictures in Black and White of the scenes we see daily. More pictures on his blog.
Chris Rodgers clicks amazingly beautiful pictures of tigers at Ranthambhore. You have to see it to believe it.
‘yesterday was dramatic, today is ok.’
Published by June 12th, 2009 in Art, Photoblog and Photography. 0 CommentsDiti Kotecha’s photoblog is definitely worth a visit. Or several long trips.
Under the table
Published by June 10th, 2009 in Dalit, Photography, Prejudice and Society. 1 CommentRahul Pandita explains:
Sunil and Arvind Parmar, owners of a tea stall in Surendranagar, Gujarat, break for lunch while their servant Mangal, an 11-year-old Dalit boy is made to sit under the table.
[via Amitava Kumar].
Samyuktha PC pays a tribute to Lala Deen Dayal who ‘used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India’:
Lala Deen Dayal (1844-1905) used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India, of the British and the nationalist. This was time before automatic cameras, and definitely [...]
Sandeep has posted some breathtaking pictures from his trek to Vavul Mala. He also has a write up of the trek in his website.
(Image courtesy: Sandeep)
Sreeni Sreedharan has captured some colorful shots from Fort Kochi. Also check out rest of the photos in his photoblog.
(Image courtesy: Sreeni Sreedharan)
Art Futures Kolkata
Published by March 16th, 2009 in Art, Culture, Literature, Music, Personal, Photography, Poetry, Society and Theatre. 0 CommentsRama, fellow Blogbhartian, has started a new art blog, Art Futures Kolkata, with this admirable goal: Making Art Accessible, Relating Art to Community.
In the latest post, Rama questions the been-there, seen-that smugness of some Kolkatans:
Do they visit other painting or scuplture exhibitions of local or Indian artists in galleries or museums in Calcutta or elsewhere [...]
50 Million missing.
Published by March 2nd, 2009 in Activism, Human Rights, India, Photography and Women. 0 Comments
Check out the flickr group.
Want to take a good picture? Think before you click or you may have to be answerable to someone, as Kalyan found out!
‘Taking pictures of a government property without permission means violating 3 sections’. Now, this was something I had no clue about. No-argument strategy sounded apt under the circumstances. I tried to calm him [...]
Another Case of Media Theft with Swift Response
Published by December 21st, 2008 in Blogging, Media and Photography. 3 CommentsArun finds his picture of Chandratal published on NDTV site without any attribution. The only thing in NDTV’s favor is that it has responded fast.
We initiated an enquiry as soon as we received your complaint, and it seems that the image you have referred to, crept into our systems inadvertently. Although there are strict editorial [...]
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