Afteir visiting Jantar Mantar at New Delhi. It was refreshing to visit Jantar Mantar at Jaipur. It is more well looked after and not hemmed in with buildings like its Delhi counterpart. However my only concern is why do they have a sarkari timing for all the monuments in Rajasthan. The monument `shuts down' to visitors at dot 5pm. Thats just when the sun is going down and one can get amazing photographs of the astromnomical buildings built by Jai Singh. In Delhi the Jantar Mantar opens are 7am. There are morning walkers and joggers who come here with a special pass. Besides them a dog or two also sneak in and chase each other around the various `yantras'.
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
Contact : 91-9810672755
e-mail: sanjayausta@gmail.com
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