The Oath of Pythias

Friend - a creature that you are not linked by blood but with soul. Friendship - a bond you earned, created, and responded to on your own.

It's a family outside the family...it's your first rush, first cigarette, first drink, first tour together, first partner hunt, whatever it may be, it's with friends...a bond forged with happiness and interdependence. Here there's no ego, no judgement. Here dependency never asks for freedom…because you like it…because you trust it…because there will always be a Joey to Chandler and Monica to Rachel.

I don't know how much justice this snap did to capture the friendship of the subjects here, but I hope you definitely can feel the emotions portrayed. True Friendship remains intact even if everything goes south and just like that these two subjects in the snap have covered this hazy road every day. They chatted and shared moments. They indulged in one another's grief but never decided to walk alone or walk ahead of one another.

Friendship for me is the purest of relations that can ever exist on any plane. Since the beginning of time, the world has witnessed great friendships, the bard sang their tales and thus I simply named this snap “The Oath of Pythias” to pay tribute to one such great bond of friendship. I perhaps wasn’t there to witness the trail and promise of Damon and Pythias but I do believe their essence is not lost ever.

I think friendship is about a subtle balance. Entering headfast into it is one thing and properly harnessing it is an altogether different story and that is the reason sometimes we lose friends. Real friends don't leave and I don't mean it literally. Maybe distance sometimes pops up but friends find their way back and when they do it's as if no time has passed at all.

So I dedicate this frame to all my friends out there. Cheers to this bond.

Presenting “The Oath of Pythias” - a tale of friendship, a tale of walking together.

“Amour de Grey” – an unconditional love with Grey's monotony.

Welcome to my winter collection - an ensemble of 7 moods, all set against the backdrop of grey.

Now, as you may know, Grey represents a somewhat negative sentiment, a mood that does not exactly expound happiness but monotony or gloom. But for me, “Amour de Grey” is a challenge because it withholds 7 different moods of grey and tries to break all those orthodoxies about this beautiful mid-tone.

“Amour de Grey” minutely tries to showcase the poetic meaning of winter - the struggles, the confusions, the cold, and the clouded diversions we often come across in reality. But winter is also cozy. Winter promises a new spring and likewise this collection hints at new beginnings - the daily struggle coming to an end with positive hopes.

Also, “Amour de Grey” is a case study of the rural life of the people of Northeast India - their daily chores and their efforts to advance each day. Even amidst their hardship, their brave endeavours are what inspired me to launch this collection. I want to share it worldwide to give this "view of life" a universal platform, for people to know about them, for people to share their enthusiasm.

Also, all the snaps are titled uniquely with mythological references to certain emotions that these pictures hold. I hope your journey through “Amour de Grey” removes the grey sorrows your heart holds and places a refreshing introspection instead.