A mala is a garland of prayers, literally. It is necklace made of flowers or beads, sometimes very precious stones, and each bead or flower is a repeated prayer or mantra. Traditionally a mala is used for meditation, to still … Continue reading
Category Archives: India
Thousands of Gods
India is the land of gods. They have thousands of gods ranged in layers, tumbling down from Krishna who is seen by many as the overarching God of Gods. But then there are those who would say that Vishnu has … Continue reading
Alang
Gujarat is a curious place, as I wrote in another text here. It is like the land that Time Forgot. No physical dinosaurs, but a place that seems to have ignored progress unless it is forced upon it, like the … Continue reading
Saints & Nomads
In the days of 120 film and a life without children I asked Ilford to sponsor me on a trip to the wilderness of Gujarat to photograph Saints & Nomads. I set off with an old Hasselblad and some reflectors … Continue reading
Women Caught
On one of the extended trips I took to India I worked with a man called Jack Prager in Calcutta, and visited a women’s sterilisation clinic in Bangalore. In all the time I have spent in India, and I guess … Continue reading