Arna-Jharna is a beautiful desert museum conceptualized by Padmashri Komal Kothari and brought to life by his son Kuldeep Kothari. I visited the museum about a year ago and was amazed by the way it was built up. Very small team, almost no machines used, 100% indigenous resources, using only the local knowledge for everything and anything. The museum is located on the outskirts of jodhpur. They managed to effectively collect water in the middle of desert and use some of Israeli irrigation techniques to make the entire patch green. This place is full of inspiration, I could share only the pictures.
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Arna-Jharna: The Desert Museum of Rajasthan
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Nishi & Naksh
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Nishi & Naksh now have a new address on the web.
Nishi (My Niece) www.nishi.in
Naksh (My Nephew) www.naksh.in
Please feel free to check the pictures and let me know what you think of them.
Young and Talented
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Sandeep Narayan and Swarna Rethas are probably the most well know young and upcoming carnatic musicians learning under Sanjay Subrahmanyan. I had an opportunity to capture a few moments.
Naksh: Wearing my t-shirt
Thursday, September 28th, 2006My first self-portrait attempt
Sunday, August 27th, 2006Spending half my (sun)day trying to create a new cartoon character on paper with absolutely no luck, here is what I ended up doing to cheer myself up. My first ever attempt to self portrait.
Arham: Thru my lens
Sunday, August 20th, 2006Here is my pick of snaps of the photo shoot I did last weekend. Let me know which one you like the most and which one you don’t.
Arham: Thru my lens
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006Last saturday (12th Aug) I had an opportunity to shoot this cute little 1.5 year old kid – Arham. I am still processing the snaps but here is the first snap I chose to process:

Stay tuned for more of cute Arham.
Golf cap and the handsome guy
Friday, August 11th, 2006I had done casual portfolio for 6-year-old Shrey almost a year ago. Shrey is now decently popular child model and most recently was used by Landmark (the chennai based retailer at their cathedral road city center store) as a model.
About a month ago I had an opportunity to shoot his dad – Abhilash. A pretty casual shoot and below are some of my favorite snaps. Let me know what you guys about it.
New home for my photos
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006I finally decided to use Flickr, for once let me try a yahoo service
Looks like companies have stopped using TM or (R) and are now using BETA!
It’s here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shalinjain/
So lot more photography coming up!







