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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

India | Thursday, June 13, 2013 | 5 photos

These photos are from a one month long experience I had at Kumbh Mela 2013. This experience allowed me to observe the religious situation up close and to understand how human nature continues to escape through the cracks in philosophies and continues to be human, all too human and leaves the God like qualities for the Gods themselves.
My idea of doing documentary projects is to travel to places with a one way ticket and let stories and people carry me and decide my course. Rather than choosing a project and then learning from the experience the project gives me, I like to choose the experiences I wish to go through and put myself through these experiences and churn out projects in the process.
In 2010, I decided to dedicate my life to thought/philosophy and understanding different media of expression or art. I wanted to try and live a life -- where work is life and life is work. This was after having gone through an engineering college and later tasting the bitterness of the corporate world for two years. Soon, I realised that I didn't belong there.
As Khalil Gibran very aptly puts it "They deem me mad because I won't sell my days for gold, and I deem them mad because they think my days are for sale". Growing up, I always saw people debating and fighting over what is right and wrong. That stuck with me. Today, comprehending life seem to be at the crux of who I find myself being. To live, experience, understand, evolve and express is what I am trying to do through different media of art and expression.