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Photo A Day Experiment (PADE) Day10 - Shoes

 Now this is some really unconventional theme. For today's theme Shoes, I checked - rechecked my collection - and I didn't find much of such pics. Then, I found this pic that I shot at Calgary Tower few years back. This photograph not only reminds me of the pics we generally found in forwarded e-mails, but also a famous song from the movie Khamoshi-The Musical - Aj main upar, aasman neeche :), certainly not literally ;)

Aj main upar, aasman neeche
Also, these are my shoes (and yes I am wearing those) and shot through the glass-floor of the Tower. :D

And, I would also like to post another photograph shot during the famous Ganapati Visharjan of Mumbai, 2years back. Though, I am a practicing Hindu Atheist, it's not entirely a satire - but something to ponder upon. This shoe-less foot of religiously and emotionally revered Ganapati tells us how much festivals mean to us but not the people - our own people. It also shouts about hurting the ecology. Well, what else...

A shoe-less foot

This picture post is an Entry to PADE-2013, a month long Photo-blog event. To know more and participate, click here or here. Check themes here.  


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  1. Juztamom9 July 2013 at 23:23

    Punit two very different takes...first one is an aesthetic gem!! but I loved the second one...its heart wrenching, specially being a firm believer of Ganpati!

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  2. Ritu KT10 July 2013 at 06:49

    Another awesome entry by Mr. Ghumakkar :) That glass tower photo is amazing, it looked scary and sort of unbelieveable until I read where it was taken.
    The second one does show the ugly face of rituals, sad!

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  3. My Say! India.10 July 2013 at 11:34

    that is damn scary and awesome the first one !! fabulous !!

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  4. Priyam Saikia10 July 2013 at 22:41

    o my! very nice and very scary..! I also want to stand there like you, and sing aaj me upar :p

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  5. Punit Dubey13 July 2013 at 20:34

    Thank you so much guys, first of all I must tell - I too had an elevated heartbeat, but I loved it... :)

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