Chennai, as I see it.

 I have spent several weekend evenings or full Sundays, going to various places in Chennai for photography. I've been capturing the quirky colourful streets, the local trains, the greens of IIT M, the beaches, and the hustle and bustle in general of the city. A part of me loves this city.

Crowds at Marina

The popular Schmidt Memorial in Besant Nagar beach.

Kalikundram Road

4th Cross CIT Campus on Bhogi morning

Covelong Beach, Kovalam

Besant Nagar Bus Stop.

A scene from Tharamani Bus stop.

 After all, there is a lot, a lot more to any city than just those big glass and concrete structures which we call malls.

At Mylapore

Hustle and bustle at Marina

Napier Bridge.

The Velachery local.

Remembering Rohith Vemula

"The value of a man was reduced to his immediate identity and nearest possibility. To a vote. To a number. To a thing. Never was a man treated as a mind. As a glorious thing made up of star dust." - Rohith Vemula

 Truer words have never been said.

 Dear Rohith Vemula,

   You would've turned 27 today. It's saddening that a bright mind like you has left us to due to a cruel system that only thinks of identity, votes and numbers.

   You have woken a lot of us up to realizing that some harsh realities exist, and it's us and only us who need to wake up a dormant system, to bring a much needed change for a better society, where people are, as you have said, treated as a mind, as glorious things made of stardust. We will fight, struggle, get beaten, but will bring about the change.

  You are in a far far far better world, wherever you are right now.

Somewhere in Edinburgh.

   When I visited Edinburgh with my sister on September 2015, we had gone on one of the free walking tours of the place. We walked through one attractive downhill street with pretty buildings around it, Victoria street. It's said that the Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter is based on this particular street. I had clicked it then, and recently made a pencil sketch of it. Here's the sketch.