Destinations :: Delhi

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Sun setting over Ramakrishna Puram

Having been recruited for the Central Civil Services my official career took me several times to Delhi at various levels of the government. Resultantly, I spent more than thirteen years of my service career at Delhi, more than four and a half years of which were spent on deputation with the Union Public Service Commission. That does not mean I did not go out in the field.

Post Beating the Retreat illumination

I worked for almost a tenure in undivided Madhya Pradesh, a tenure each in Maharashtra and North East and for truncated tenures in

Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir. Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal.

I

My wife out on the big verandah with governebt flats in the background

had developed an abiding interest in photography but, unfortunately, I did not have a camera when I was posted in most photogenic place like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. Even during tenure with the UPSC I did not have a camera mostly because I couldn’t afford one. Only in 1975 when my sister came for her

Viewing South Block with a filter on

sabbatical I acquired her Minolta SRT 102 on payment of only the customs duty loveable on it. I still have it but it has since been overtaken by obsolescence with the emergence of new breed of smart digital cameras which too, in turn, have been put in the shade by the cell-phone cameras.

Together after a long time at Delhi in my official house

Delhi was the first place where I learnt to wield what was then a new sophisticated camera. Only a very few of the results of my effort are mounted here