Anoop Negi Photography

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In Bangkok - Night Time for Some is on the Chao Phraya
And not the sois and streets of the infamous districts of Bangkok and Pattaya where most tourists congregate.

Thailand is a land of rich history and culture. Buddhism, Poverty, Food, Kings, battles, commercial s*x trade, economy, drugs, coups and stark manipulation of the system and government machinery by the rich and landed to continue the exploitation.

Thai society survives in great oddity. The apparent acceptance of the commercial s*x scene that nets about 20 billion Dollars a year contrasts with brothels being illegal and widespread acceptance by all segments of Thai society without any reproachment or shame.

It is a fascinating country with Bangkok and Pattaya being the epicentre of all trade and commerce, s*xual or otherwise. Throughout the length of this land runs the Chao Phraya river of muddy sustenance helpful for rice farming and transportation.

On this river, barges, ferries, hotel boats and river cruise boats keep on plying up and down carrying goods and passengers from one shopping area to another.

16/04/2024

Singing a Song of Pure Motion - Dire Tune, Ethiopia

Dire Tune is a dramatic marathon runner. She won the famous Boston Marathon in 2008 with a time of 2:25:25.

She ran the 2009 Boston marathon and finished 2nd with a time of 2:32:17. After finishing the race, she collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital.

She has been running the gamut of half marathons and marathon with variable results.

She holds the world record for the One Hour running of 18.517 kilometres set in the year 2008 in Ostrava.

This was shot in Bangalore in 2010 in May near the Vidhan Soudha and the the Cubbon Park.
Levitation while running is what the Ethiopian runners do. I wish the Indians would learn a trick or two and they think they are the masters of levitation. or should I say..were.

For more on Dire Tune, here is her profile

www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/country=eth/athcode=195...

Dates
Taken on May 23, 2010 at 8.25am IST (edi

12/04/2024

Time for a Cheroot

Journeys begin from homes to places where one has work. Some people in India travel large distances for the smallest of things like a revenue matter in a mofussil office.

This old gentleman seemed beat and bushed but it was only the idea of lighting up a beedi that seemed to have brought a semblance of life to his weather beaten, dull, taciturn countenance.

I had stopped in this small town of Ajra, which has colored wooden frontage to a large number of houses on the main road. Every time I have passed this place, I have wanted to stop and take photographs. This time too, I had the same noble intentions but I wonder if I would have really stopped. It was the sight of this old gentleman sitting forlorn on the wooden bench in the chai shop that was the decisive factor.

Dates
Taken on March 14, 2012 at 4.46pm IST

20/01/2024

At Anjuna in Goa, Wednesday is the Flea Market Day and some good music at Looda's

In the winter months in , the Flea Market in is open on Wednesday and though you never find any 2nd hand material for sale anymore, the large shopping area is crowded, nonetheless with tourists and the expat residents who all come in to soak up the ambience of the halcyon days of hip Goa hippiedom.

Anjuna is a quaint rock studded beach which in the 70s and the early 80s was remote enough to provide a community of seekers of hedonistic bliss, their years in the sun. Now it is a mish mash of shops, shacks, hotels, tourists and the Arabian Sea.

The best time to be there is early afternoon and you can soak up the feel of what this place once was.

This was shot on the Holi day in Goa and on percussion on the "dholak "is Peters, a young enthusiast from England who was at 's Cafe where music is generally the draw on any given Wednesday. The location, right on the beach is an added bonus.

16/01/2024

Bhima of Yakshagana

Bhima, the Mighty must not only be grand and awe inspiring but must look so in person too. The thespian here ensures that the turn out is awe inspiring.

From the Indian epic Mahabharata, Bhima is one of the Pandava brothers. He is the one who wields a heavy mace and is supposed to be the hot headed and strongest of the five brothers in terms of physical prowess.

Yakshagana is a dance drama form of performance that was very popular in a very small segment of Karnataka in India. Now there are not too many dedicated artists who can carry on with the demanding format of the performance and the popular medium of story telling has shifted to the cinema halls and the television and the internet. A few of the dedicated organisations have managed to continue to keep this disappearing act still going on as of now.

You can read more about the Yakshagana group called Shri Idagunji Mahaganapati Yakshagana Mandali, Keremane

12/01/2024

Life is a part mix of fears, aspirations and worries. At the end of the day it is just about being tired and sadly satisfied. Do you get to understand the meaning of existence?

At Olavayapu Ferry Point. -- The boats are still the ones with oars. Life is still very much a peaceful haven. Pristine and undiscovered at a stone's throw away from Cochin.

Mr Narayanan was all of 85 years when this was shot in 2007. If alive, he would be 102. Who knows ?

And at age 85 he was ferrying passengers on his boat which he himself rows. How is that for Life !

09/01/2024

Fleur De Melo 2010

On a Saturday evening in June 2010 in Goa, with fading light and clouds gathering over the western horizon that happens to be the mouth of the Mandovi river, sits this beautiful vision in wait for the impending arrival of the storm flecked monsoon rains.

Part of series of the Beautiful People of Goa.