GOWRI MANICKAVASAGAM
AHMEDABAD, APRIL 7
City-based noted real estate developer and award-winning town planner NK Patel has applied his over four decades of professional experience in his passion – travel photography. Yes, camera, time and adequate home work have helped him to click the ‘unity in diversity, the hallmark of India’. His photo exhibition on Northeast, Click Walk-2, throws more light on its pristine beauty with diversity with exceptional brilliance.
It was declared open by Padma Shri Dr Jitendranath Goswami, former Director of Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad on Wednesday in Ahmedabad.
The photographs span across people, culture, architecture, historical monuments, landscape, wildlife, etc. and offer a unique insight into the onto-epistemological framework of the peoples, places, and cultural products of the Northeast region.
“The Northeast region comprising Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagalan, Tripura nad Silim holds special importance in India. It has a cultural and historical uniqueness, a range of communities, and geographical and ecological diversity unlike any other part of the country. His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama entered India from Tibet in 1960 through the Bomadila route near Tawang to live in exile. During the World War II, Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj came into existence in this part of the country. My photographs also depict these historical milestones,” says NK Patel.
“A lot of thought and effort went into the photos that were clicked during my multiple visits to the region. I have tried to give a unique perspective of the natural beauty and richness of the North East region. I am confident the exhibition will give the viewers a lot more than what photographs taken during travel often do,” adds Patel.
Patel was all praise for the hospitality and the affection of Northeast people.
The exhibition is open for all at The Art Gallery at Amdavadni Gufa from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm till April 10.
