A brooms seller sets up shop amid the dust and squalor of the farmers market in Mysore. Fruits and vegetable growers from villages around the city bring their produce here for sale. I took this photo when my wife and I joined a photowalk organised by camera enthusiast Kiran Ravikumar and his young friends.
You wouldn't feel comfortable if such animal is held anywhere other than in a cage. The tiger here, they said, had seen action in Hollywood movies. This place we went to is a ranch near Salinas CA (Steinbeck country). The ranch has bed/breakfast accommodation for animal lover tourists , and a spacious enclosures for animals and birds trained to face the camera and hired for filming to movie/TV producers.
I didn't have in mind its licence plate when I took this photo of a public transport bus that should have been retired. Spotted this on road at Sakleshpur, Karnataka.
Technician at work on our temperamental washing machine that struck work when clothes were in the washer.
A vintage shot in my album, of niece Bubly's 'Punch' with their family car at their frontyard in Bangalore.Both, the dog and the car,are no more. 
Took these shots at dusk near Chamarajanagar, Karnataka. Cows are coming home after a day out grazing by the lakeside. We were on way from Coimbatore to Mysore.
California-based grandsons - Sidharth and Nikhil - look forward to Hindu festivals when they get to wear their silk dhoti.This photo was taken on Ganesh Chaturthi Day a couple of years back. On this day our young friends offer prayers to Ganesha, the elephant-faced god.
Wheel of a temple car parked at the Chamundi Hills. Presiding deity at this hill temple in Mysore is taken in ceremonial procession around the temple in a massive wooden car on festive occasions.
The Patil family is passionate about planting trees . Ravi Shankar Patil, an Air Force officer posted on field, mobilizes children in his JP Nagar neighbourhood for tree-planting whenever he comes to Mysore on home leave. His parents join Ravi and the children in planting on vacant space in their locality.
