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		<title>How Photographers get their Shots and Miss the Picture.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does  photography  make you see more – as is popularly believed -   or does it sometimes make you wear blinkers to the world around you?  Photography of course should make you see and absorb more and this is what we all believe but I think it can do just the opposite. I feel photographers are so busy with the visual assimilation of what is at hand that they don’t (and perhaps can’t) care  much about what it is they are photographing. They are not so much interested in understanding the subject as they are in `capturing’ it.]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping Heights: A Leap of Faith at Rishikesh.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘’ It’s a life changing experience. You will not feel the same way about yourself after it’’, their voices ring in my ears as I rock softly in the evening train to  Rishikesh. No I am not going for a dip at the Ganga and the accompanying mumbo jumbo.  Though for over a millennia  ‘life-change’ seekers have taken the same journey to flock to the ghats of his ancient holy town.

My journey is far more perilous and takes me  through  a winding road up a mountain slope where perched  high on a  craggy cliff I am to take my leap of faith. Its  called the Art of Letting Go. Or to put it simply -Bungee. For those who have done it, the exhilaration is no less spiritual and they cannot stop raving about it.]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted Philanthropy of the Maharaja of Jodhpur.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 05:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is touted that the Umaid Bhawan Palace was built as a drought relief measure by Maharaja of Jodhpur Umaid Singh. The idea was to make a luxurious private residence for the Maharaha in order to create employment for the starving people of Jodhpur. I find it ironic. Imagine a man thinking of making a 347 room luxurious villa for himself out of the misery of the people is he supposed to serve. Surprisingly the Maharaja is glorified till this day as a philanthropist for his `noble gesture'.  The moment you enter the Umaid Bhawan a large plaque informs you about this `generosity'.]]></description>
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		<title>Valley of Sports- Solang Valley, Manali</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am neither a honeymooner nor here for the snow. I am one of the  other  sort of tourist in Manali that maybe my taxi driver has not yet taken stock of. The snow game aficionados.  And we are  all  here for the winter adventures offered at  the Solang Valley.  Winter games is a regular feature at this beautiful valley some 13 kms from Manali town but it has  never been so big an affair to keep the tourists industry in Manali happy.   But from this year onwards it promises to only grown bigger with a plethora of snow adventures happening all at one place.]]></description>
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		<title>Maggie Noodle &#8211; Photography Tips.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am  putting up this post with a disclaimer: I don't believe you can learn photography in quick short tips as listed here. These `tips'  can at best be viewed as pointers. Thats why I have titled this post -` Maggie Noodle Photography Tips'. A magazine however insisted I write few quick tips on the various aspects of photography, so here they are for what they are  worth. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wicket worship : &#8216;Gully&#8217; Cricket- Cricket in our Backyards.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sanjay Austa’s ongoing photo series Gully Cricket: Cricket in Our Backyards, portrays the game as it’s played in the monasteries of Ladakh and on the beaches of Kanyakumari: Mint]]></description>
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		<title>Why any Rules for Love and Sex are Simply Regressive.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my grandfather’s time, ‘good old days’ were indeed the good old days. There were no rules for love and marriage and sex was free. You met a girl at the village fair and if she was willing, you could have a roll in the hay. If you wanted something more serious you brought her home as a bride .   If you didn’t get along you simply broke off because divorce was not a stigma. Not  even for women.  My grandfather boasted of having married 13 times in this fashion and my grandmother thrice.]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Read All the Banned Books. Including  The Satanic Verses.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banned books are fantastic for the obvious reasons. They question the status quo, challenge existing paradigms, question idiotic beliefs no matter how sacred, and provoke you to think anew. The very reasons the politicians and the clergy would not want you to touch them.  But what is good writing if it won’t give you a fresh perspective. And what is freedom of expression without the freedom to offend. Because for how long can you read Paulo Choelho  or Chetan Bhagat]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas from Santa Claus Village, Lapland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The `Official Santa’ is very much the Santa of my imagination. Long white undulating beard. Rose tinted rotund cheeks. And the all too familiar corpulent frame. He greets us a predictable Namastay when told we are from India. He takes turns greeting us all and asks the girls in our group if they have been good-girls in a manner and tone he would ask any naughty children visiting him. The girls play along with one of them insisting on getting a photograph shot  sitting on his lap.]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Sacrifices and the Temples of Gore.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanjay austa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its interesting that almost all the religions of the world decided that the best way to appease their Gods was to butcher  hapless animals to them. Apart from reasons of piety, I suspect it had something to do with guilt. Taking another animals life for food may have looked a bit selfish. Therefore as in most things, men decided why not do it in the name of God?  You get to eat the meat and God takes all the blame for the blood and gore.]]></description>
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