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Rituals are at the centre of everything we do, this is the way we all have live and it will continue for generations to come. This i is our responsibility to pass on our culture and all the rituals to the next generation so that it can live for many more years to come. This was shot in a small town of Karnataka, Shravanabelagola, where thousands of devotees especially from Jain religion come every month to offer their prayers to Lord Bahubhali. The priest was offering kumkma water (red) right onto the idol feet, a memorable moment. This image also reminds that even though devotees come and go, the ritual has to continue day in day out and the priest is the one who sacrifices and live his life serving the almighty.

A passionate & a serious photographer who loves to capture nature, landscape, wildlife, architecture & cityscape. Over the years, my photographs have won both National and International awards and has been exhibited multiple places across India and around the world. Few of my photographs were featured in National Geographic and in few other magazines & newspapers. One of my favourite photography is getting published as a cover page of a "Religion Text Book" in US with 99k copies of prints available from March 2020.

For me photography is one of the best ways to capture a moment which will neither reoccur naturally nor can it be recreated by us artificially.