Jaigarh Fort like most Rajpst forts is perched on a hill surrounding the city. It is also of the same dull yellow and brown colour of the landscape. Therefore its difficult to gauge its size from a distance. The fort is big and was never captured by anyone. It has a huge canon `Jaya Yana'. It is the largest wheeled canon in the world. Unfortunately however one can barely get a glimpse of it as its perched so high. What you do get a good view of is the Amber Fort that is hardly one kilometer down the same hill.
Sanjay Austa is an award-winning photographer based in New Delhi.
He started his career as a journalist and the switch to photography was gradual. His photographs and his choice of subjects however reflect his journalistic pedigree.
He has shot myriad subjects in diverse geographical climes including the wild in the African Savannas, the life in the Arctic and the deserts in the Middle East. He has a penchant for human-interest issues for which he travels extensively in India. His photo-essays are published regularly in the Indian and the International Media. His photo-feature on the 1984 anti-Sikh Delhi riots was exhibited in California and UK by various human rights groups in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
More recently he has done four picture books on World Heritage Monuments for Penguin Books. He is a guest faculty at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication(IIMC), New Delhi. He was awarded the prestigious Karamveer Puraskar Award in 2010 for his photo-essays on social and cultural issues.
www.sanjayausta.com
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