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By Sam On 25 Dec, 2012 At 10:04 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 0 Comments

Date: 16th Dec 2012 Venue: TAPMI Cafeteria Event: Christmas Carols and Special Dinner Sometimes certain cards force your hand. End Semester Examinations and Term Break. A special evening, lots of enthusiasm. And all the students actively participating!! Christmas Carols and popular songs. TAPMI heralds Christmas early this year!! Christmas is a special time, even if [...]

By Sam On 5 Dec, 2012 At 09:55 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography, Travel and Leisure | With 0 Comments
Gokarna like all other towns and societies consists of many spaces. These spaces are not overtly defined and there are grey areas.

[pullquote_right]I do not know how to swim.[/pullquote_right] We have been told about the Tower Of Babel. Poets have waxed eloquent about the futility of language in expressions; the futility of words to convey what we felt at a given moment. I was not a very ardent believer of that philosophy or line of thought. Yes, [...]

By Sam On 1 Dec, 2012 At 09:20 AM | Categorized As Miscellaneous, Travel and Leisure | With 1 Comment
Manipal Private Bus

Had we met Nostradamus the day before we left, he would have told us, in his usual annoying cryptic way “Ease back on the red fluid lass” “If I were you, I would cling to it tighter than ever” “Dont overdo the pasta, you won’t have space left for the alcohol” “For the last time, [...]

By Sam On 30 Nov, 2012 At 07:16 PM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 0 Comments
A Macro composition of the lights during Diwali celebrations in TAPMI, Manipal

Date: 13th November 2012 Venue: The Well Event: Diwali DJ Night Organizers: The Welfare Com Necessity is the mother of Invention, or so they say. Despite several constraints and restrictions in place, the ever enterprising students managed to organize a much required session of fun and frolic. A welcome break, a brief respite from the [...]

By Sam On 21 Nov, 2012 At 09:39 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 0 Comments
A Stange Distance

  Distance separates us, a strange distance. Blissfully unaware was I , of your existence; Miles apart, worlds apart; tables apart Wandering eyes and a hollow  heart.   There she sits, pretty and demure; Her skin shimmering with a strange allure. The luxuriant mane, tamed yet wild. The beauty of a woman, the beauty of [...]

By Sam On 14 Nov, 2012 At 09:15 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 0 Comments
ABR Mangalore 2

  It was a gracious request from a dear friend. And as usual, I have never regretted accepting any invitation for travel. We were a motley group of 4; 2 girls and 2 boys and it was a delightful trip. The occasion was Dusshera and the Bengalis with their ardent devotion towards Maa; felt the [...]

By Sam On 13 Nov, 2012 At 04:44 PM | Categorized As Photography | With 0 Comments
The creativity of man reaches far out to the sky as there are even lanterns so personalized. In prints or the colors it flaunts. 
Photo Courtesy: Jinto Cyriac

“The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one; yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done.” – Francis William Bourdillon It was a beautiful evening. [...]

By Sam On 31 Oct, 2012 At 09:19 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 0 Comments
A Brief Respite - Reality Sets in

Camera: Canon EOS 1000D Time of Day : 6: 50 pm Lens: 70-300mm Focal Length: 119 mm Exposure:  1/500 F Number :  f/4 ISO: 200 The breeze sweeping through our hair, The kind sunshine streaming in; Your fingers entwined in mine, The warmth and light, makes me smile. Shared music: sweeter & crisper, Shared glances [...]

By Sam On 24 Oct, 2012 At 03:48 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 0 Comments
ABR-VI-CB-Hill

Camera: Canon EOS 1000D Time of Day :  5:50 pm Lens: 70-300mm Focal Length: 70 mm Exposure:  1/80 F Number :  f 6.63 ISO:400 The McClelland Hill. I am surprised after almost three batches have come in , it is yet to get a name. The upward climb that almost every first year has to [...]

By Sam On 17 Oct, 2012 At 09:58 AM | Categorized As A Brief Respite, Photography | With 1 Comment
ABR V Denizens of the Green

Camera: Canon EOS 1000D Time of Day :  1:20 pm Lens: 70-300mm Focal Length: 300 mm Exposure:  1/125 F Number :  f 5.6 ISO: 400 You lie there. Patiently. Like a dead log. No movement, no noise, ignoring the stench, ignoring the flies, ignoring your aunt searching for you, calling out to you to come [...]