I was born and raised in Goa. My photographic interests lie in landscapes, portraiture in natural light, street life, culture, religion, and photojournalism. Places that I find particularly inspiring are Goa, Iceland, and California.
I have shot extensively in my homeland of Goa, recording its surviving heritage and its sui generis ethos. I have documented in detail the destruction of Goa's environment and its rapid slide into the ugliness and urban chaos that characterizes today's India.
I am also a musician, with a lifelong association with the musical traditions of India. I live in California and spend extended time in Goa.
Photo credit: Sanjeev Trivedi
by Rajan P. Parrikar
8 comments
Rajan
Mouth watering pictures. Do we have to go Delhi or Rajastan to taste them or our Ghati immigrants in Goa make them!
Anesimo
If those mouth watering SAMOSAS are fried in the all prevalent and the killer ‘hydrogeneted’ oils and those ever so succulent and desirable ‘pedas’ are prepared in the ‘hydrogenated vanaspati’ ghees, then they are hardly the peaceful ‘Heaven’ they are supposed to be but more like the burning ‘Hell’
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
Holi ki mithai….wah wah….thank you, thank you……you can make any object look beautiful with your lenses…..deliciously wonderful
Annesimo: Cafe Central in Panjim has been making world-class samosas for decades now. So no need of migrants for this job.
Floriano: No, you have it wrong. A samosa a day, a peda a day, has the power to dispatch one to heaven by age 40
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The samosas in East Africa and England are triangular in shape.
They are also made with thin pastry.If hey were copied from Indian samosas why are they different?
Ignatius: As you know, most things in India are never uniform across the country; they come in local variations and flavours. The samosas you see in the photograph are Punjabi style. Bengalis, Gujaratis, Maharashtrians, Goans etc all impart their own spin to the art of samosa manufacture. The samosas vary by the type of filling to the thickness of the crust to its overall shape profile.
Yumm !!!
In the first photograph, I’m wondering how it would be if the gol gappe in the background were also in focus.
The DOF works nicely in the second picture of pedas.