Jain Spirit 2003 10 No 16

SR No.: 528996
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Spirit UK
Publisher: UK Young Jains
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 68
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, UK_Jain Spirit, & UK
File Size: 17 MB

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ROM THE SHIMMERING ARABIAN SEA AND THE cosmopolitan sweep of Marine Drive, it is but a couple of
this district is quite astonishing. Vehicles of all shapes and sizes, with their radios up to full volume tuned into the cricket whilst their drivers blow their horns continuously, vie for road space with an endless stream of people, overloaded handcarts, cows and even the occasional elephant. Skirting an anti-Valentine's Day demo, I bear off the main street until a Shiva Trident marks the beginning of a narrow lane, down which a group of barrow boys are taking their leave under a red and white sign. Then, up a dimly lit staircase to a door with a hand drawn poster, so reminiscent of 1960's psychedelic art, is a sign which announces 'Welcome to Dinodia'.
INSPIRATION
James Maturin-Baird turns his focus onto Dinodia Picture Library
Inside is an oasis of photography from the chaos of the streets below. Less eventful but much easier is to tap www.dinodia.com onto your computer, click go, and now you're there too.
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Dinodia's journey begins back across the Arabian Sea in the bazaars of Aden with the purchase of an Agfa Box camera by a doting uncle for his teenage nephew kicking his heels back home in Bombay. That gift would fire Jagdish Agarwal's imagination and his interest in photography and would prove to be his 'ticket to ride'. Photography courses were rare in India at that time but upon discovering that the Indo-American Institute ran them, Jagdish enrolled as a student and proceeded to sweep the board of prizes both in
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Graphic and Photos: James Maturin-Baird except: Courtesy of Dinodia, #: Atul Shah