Rage

poster for a gig at Cafe Morrison. other credits: Saad Khan.

Indian Rupee symbol competition

my entry for the Indian Rupee symbol design competition held last year.

Ramlila

Gods and Moneylenders

Ram wants to be a journalist. He, along with his friend Hanuman, is in BA second year. Ravana is a moneylender. This is the fourth consecutive year that they have come from Moradabad to enact the Ramlila at the Ramlila ground near Turkman Gate in old Delhi. Though they do not get paid for the part they play, they are more than happy to be a part of something that lets them be local celebrities for ten days. Many of the actors are part of Adarsh Kala Sangam, a small theatre group in Moradabad. The rest are enthusiastic kids from the local neighborhood of old Delhi, most of whom eagerly play parts in either the monkey or the demon army.

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sharma, who owns the Adarsh Kala Sangam, has been directing the Ramlila since 1966. His wife, Jeevan Lata, has been pitching in as the main make-up artiste of the group for the past thirty years. A large tent behind the stage serves as the green room which is strewn with colorful costumes, masks, bows and arrows, swords, crowns and monkey tails made of rolled cloth. The makeup consists of the usual cheap makeup stuff apart from all kinds of paints.

The Ramlila at the Ramlila ground is believed to be the oldest running Ramlila in Delhi, apparently started at the time of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar.

According to Dr. Pradeep Sharma, the only major difference over the years is that the lights and sound systems have become better than they were before, but the message in Ram's story is as relevant today as ever. The thousands of mesmerized people watching the Ramlila confirm his belief that the magic hasn't diminished over the long period of time, even though it faces tough competition to modern inventions like television.

View from Ranikhet

Moonrise.

Milky Way in the summer triangle.

Milky Way rising.

Star trails. Sirius and Orion setting.

M44. Beehive cluster.

M42. Orion Nebula.

Trishul, Nanda Devi and others.

Cafe morrison

drinks menu




















table tops

logo

business cards

t-shirts

website www.cafemorrison.com
some work for Cafe Morrison, New Delhi.

Three hours of Jupiter

Jupiter Time Lapse from Deepak Dogra on Vimeo.
Time-lapse film of Jupiter taken through a telescope. Eyepiece projection method, through a Celesron 4’’ maksutov, 1325mm focal length, 15mm eyepiece, Nikon D90. 3 hour duration, taken at intervals of 10 minutes. Each frame is a ‘stack’ of 25-30 still images. Aligned and stacked manually in Photoshop. Jupiter's moon Io can also be seen as it comes in front of the planet, followed by its shadow.

New Year

couldn't have had a better start. with an eclipsed moon.

While the climate change talks go on in Copenhagen

cow dung vs bottled water, toilet paper and a plastic bag which says 'more'. Banaras.

Tourist photographers

part of a project on tourist photographers found at various tourist destinations around India. your photographs are sent to you by post without the postage stamp to make sure the postman delivers it to you as he can claim the postage money. with their livelihood under threat from technology, most are looking for other work, while few have shifted to digital cameras and portable printers.