Rungta’s Photoblog

Rashmi said..

That sure looks like a beautiful place. Looking at a western photo after photos from India just make the former look so lifeless and colourless and sort of artificial sometimes. P.S. Nice choice of words from an enchantingly beautiful song. (It ate me up till I figured out from where I knew that line :) )

Prateek said..

Haha. Torture inflicting beauty?

Looking at a western photo after photos from India just make the former look so lifeless and colourless and sort of artificial sometimes.

Exactly! You said what I left unsaid.

Abhishek said..

It’s sad that our political parties(not government) try their best to cover all that’s good about India with grime. People keep pontificating about Indian culture and how it’s vanishing but forget that they are also partly to blame for everything going wrong. Discipline and decorum are things of the past in India. Because of that I don’t think I’ll ever be able to appreciate(or notice) the colour that we still have left in India.

Prateek said..

This colour that we speak of is a part of us, which is why it can be hard to notice at times. Living abroad certainly makes one much more aware of it.

It does seem to be fading as we try and distance ourselves from our history and our heritage but there’s a long way to go before we become monochromatic. (At least that was the case in February this year.)

Now more than ever, people are learning about different cultures around the world. They then fashion a mixture to lead a lifestyle to their liking. What’s wrong/sad is that most of the decisions for the mixture are made based on coolness (and thus trends) which, somehow, is a trait we ourselves don’t associate much with our own culture.

So, of course [we, the] people are to blame, if blame you must. No tradition is a “thing of the past” unless one chooses to make it so.

For my part, I’m trying to be less ignorant and more rational when I make these choices.

Abhishek said..

Living abroad certainly makes one much more aware of it.

Never experienced that. When I say people are to blame, it’s because I have the view that it is people who define a place’s culture. Seeing educated people spit on the roads or open their windows to throw out plastics is not something I enjoy.

For my part, I’m trying to be less ignorant and more rational when I make these choices.

You can’t be rational, and you’re forced to be ignorant because you just can’t try to change the world around you without being shot at.

Rakesh said..

Good photography in low light. I like the way you’ve cropped these.

I don’t feel there is anything definitively Western or Indian about these photos. There’s still plenty of urbanisation and culture scattered across every country these days. What looks beautiful to you depends very much on where you look and what you identify with.

Prateek said..

I don’t feel there is anything definitively Western or Indian about these photos.

Not these photos specifically, but for better or worse, there is a noticeable difference generally.

Vega said..

how re how?? how do u click such pictures!….it amazes me!