The Last Dragon Dance

Images from the Beijing Opera's performance at the Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi, India on thursday.
Incredible performers and beautiful choreography.

Photographs by Tashi Tobgyal/ Indian Express

India's backyard Rail Odyssey!

One hell of a train Journey.... Click on Post Title to watch slideshow..
http://www.indianexpress.com/on-vivek-express/

Backstage Phantoms

A small photographic preview into a Ram Lila setup in New Delhi, Oct 2011

Highway to Hell

This isn't anything near to a grate picture, but then I just thought I did like to share this with you for just a significant piece of information. I do travel in this milestone of a thing that we have in the city, just that the chaos now forms the essence of the routes. Issues, that aren't deemed anything now, but those that we shall be cursing soon. And in all this , big rail corporations are selling off the chaos into dividends to corporate cannibals. Wait and watch.... Refer to the Airport Express...

Crisis in Exile : The story of the karmapa

They come carrying photographs of the Karmapa, some have his picture strapped to their heads, others come bearing bright yellow and pink plastic flowers. The long march of over a thousand people winds its way down the hills in the hot sun, past the snow-capped Dhauladhar ranges. Monks, students, women, youth and the elderly all walk down about 15 kilometres from McLeodganj, the home of the Dalai Lama, to the Gyuto monastery in Sidhbari, the transitory home of Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa—and the current seat of controversy.
The prayer hall inside the monastery is a picture of calm. There is a reverential hush as devotees walk in. An old woman who wants to make a Rs. 20 offering but has no change, puts a Rs. 50-note and takes back Rs. 30 from the pile. In the small mounds of offerings that people have left behind are currency notes from all over the world. Amidst the Indian rupees and the dollar bills stands a nonchalant Chinese yuan note—the currency whose recovery in the monastery was responsible for a round of allegations about the Karmapa being a Chinese spy. 
Outside, the steps and the courtyard of the yellow and maroon monastery fill up with devotees. Wednesday and Saturdays are when the Karmapa gives a public audience and today, a Wednesday, apart from the usual visitors are those who have come to express solidarity with the Karmapa.
And then, he finally appears. As he speaks, the crowd—with devotees in large numbers from Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti, Ladakh and from other parts of the country as well as abroad—hangs on to his words. His address in Tibetan is short and he talks about the controversy swirling around him.

Untitled Panoramics

Durga Visarjan at the ghats of the Yamuna river in Delhi, during one of India;s most vibrant religious celebration, the durga puja towards Autumn. Photograph by Tashi Tobgyal

Somersault City

http://static.indianexpress.com/frontend/iep/Gymcity/index.html

The White Melodies...

Nyen Karpo from Samridhi Thapliyal on Vimeo.