Photos by Yudhajit Basu
Often solitary, I walk down the pavements of Pune where I am currently studying. I can’t but
spend minutes, often hours, looking at the different tonalities and varieties of arrangement that a
tree contains. Trees fascinate me in many ways. This is a recent click on my mobile a few
nights back on one such solitary nocturnal walk.
It was sleeping so peacefully on the roadside in a small sleepy village called Baranti in Purulia
that I couldn’t restrain myself from taking a picture. I actually was looking forward to a series
of the mud walls bearing the tribal graffiti, but then this little goat diverted my attention.
This was taken way back in 2006 on a small point and shoot analog camera near the Gurudongmar
Lake in Sikkim. During the pandemic I was browsing through old photographs, especially those
taken on my childhood journeys to the mountains. This one caught my eye. Even as a kid when it
came to the hills, I had more or less managed to put things well in a frame, I guess.
Birds remind me of dinosaurs. But birds are apparently fragile. These, perched on telegraph
wires on a sultry evening in an alleyway of my city looked eerie. I was waiting for something to
happen and it did. One bird took a flight…
Yudhajit Basu joined Film & Television Institute of India, Pune in the Direction Department in 2017 after graduating in Mass Communication and Videography from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata, India. He has made short films & documentaries centering around the themes of climate change and the dichotomy between the modern and the primordial. He is also the editor of a little magazine on poetry in Bengali called “Shabdo (Sound)” and has also published books on poetry.
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