Stretches Out Comfortably On Her

“Home is something that signifies warmth and comfort.Khimji Bhai Phula Bhai is a Rathwa Adivasi — a tribe that inhabit the Chhota Udaipur hills of eastern Gujarat. “Several of these homes changed over the years and by the time the book came out there were instances of people moving away to different cities, and some of them were no longer alive,” he says. It was a documenter documenting the lives that they lived, and what they wanted to project. “People do open their doors and are happy to let you in, so, it wasn’t really a problem to convince them, especially in the rural and mid town segment.

He is pictured here with his wife and two granddaughters at their home in Jambughoda Taluka, Gujarat. It is a place where you find people as they are, without any pretence. In the urban arena, there were friends and friends of friends who opened up. In the pictures, you can see people dressed in their regular clothes, sitting comfortably on their beds or favourite chairs or sofas at their favourite spots.Champaben Prajapati is Ismailpur’s first woman pradhan.Seated in the drawing-room of Sheeshmahal, the ancestral residence of the Nawabs of Lucknow, are royal descendants Nawab Jafar Mir Abdullah (in the cream sherwani) with his mother Nawab Sarwat Jehan Begum (now deceased), and his youngest brother NawabMasood Abdullah.”Babiben Koli Patel, 50, stretches out comfortably on her charpai, unbothered by the camera pointed at her.

After a hard day’s work, Arun Tandon, an IT professional-turned-furniture manufacturer, puts his feet up at his elegantly furnished apartment in Gurgaon..Home is where the heart is — a close look at Amit Pasricha’s images that capture people across the country comfortably settled in their homes validates the point. In the photograph, she is seen posing with her husband at their home in Karan Clean Room Project Manufacturers Ismailpura, Gujarat. that they value. What better way to present the diversity of the country than to capture people in their natural surroundings,” says the photographer.The book, however, is not about splendid houses or architecture. He asserts, “I didn’t have any set list of the ‘kinds of homes’ that I wanted to showcase.“Every few kilometres speaks of a shift in the culture, the habitat, the aesthetic and the outlook of people,” says Pasricha.