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Except for the giant LCD screen and the lad with the cell phone, everything seems as it was there when the line was opened a century back.
Puri-Kalinga Utkal Express races past Anand Vihar at 94 km/ h, closing in on its next stop, Hazrat Nizamuddin, while reducing a 20-minute delay. In the distance, a Pink Line metro heads towards Shiv Vihar. Leading the charge is Visakhapatnam WAP7 #39290, built by PLW in 2023.
In frame: 18478 YNRK-PURI Kalinga Utkal Express | Loco: VSKP WAP7 #39290
Anand Karaj (Punjabi: ąØ ąØØą©°ąØ¦ ąØąØ¾ąØ°ąØ, anand kÄraj) is the Sikh marriage ceremony, meaning "Blissful Union" or "Joyful Union", that was introduced by Guru Amar Das. The four Lavan (marriage hymns which take place during the marriage ceremony) were composed by his successor, Guru Ram Das.
Punjabi wedding traditions and ceremonies are traditionally conducted in Punjabi and are a strong reflection of Punjabi culture.
The actual religious marriage ceremony - among Sikhs, the weddings are conducted in Punjabi; among Muslims, in Urdu; and among Hindus, in Sanskrit. There are commonalities in ritual, song, dance, food, and dress. The Punjabi wedding has many rituals and ceremonies that have evolved since traditional times, including many famous Punjabi dances.
Anand Varma never set out to become a photographer. At least, not at first. He was training to be a scientistāfield biology, to be exactāand spent his early twenties trekking through cloud forests in Panama, patiently tracking parasitic birds and amphibians that whispered the secrets of evolution in their skin and feathers. But somewhere along the way, he realized that telling the story of those creaturesātheir struggles, their intricate lives, their astonishing beautyāmoved him more deeply than collecting their data.
He picked up a camera not as a tool of art, but of communication. It quickly became both.
Today, Varma is one of the most singular visual storytellers of the natural world. His images, many published through his long collaboration with National Geographic, are not just beautiful. They are transformative. They show us the unseenāthe sliver of time between a beeās pupal sleep and its emergence into the light; the inside of a hummingbird egg as life begins to stir; the complex, alien architecture of the brain of an octopus. Through Varmaās lens, nature is neither quaint nor remote. It is intimate, strange, and breathtakingly alive.
I photographed Anand at WonderLab in Berkeley, where he had transformed a portion of the space into a kind of living studioāa hybrid between a laboratory, an art studio, and a cabinet of curiosity. A National Geographic film crew was there, quietly orbiting him as he adjusted a microscopic rig or repositioned a translucent insect under a halo of LEDs. There was a feeling in the roomāa kind of reverence. Anand works with the precision of a scientist, the patience of a monk, and the sensibility of an artist. Itās rare to see someone so wholly in their element.
His background in science is not ornamentalāitās foundational. He earned a degree in integrative biology from UC Berkeley, and that early scientific training informs not just what he chooses to photograph, but how. He builds many of his own tools: custom lighting rigs, time-lapse systems, and high-speed setups that allow him to peer into timeframes our eyes were never meant to access. A single Varma image might require weeks or months of preparationācultivating insect colonies, calibrating microscopes, rehearsing the choreography of emergence. But the result is not sterile. Itās magic.
What makes Anandās work so moving is not just that itās technically brilliantāitās that itās full of feeling. Thereās a deep curiosity, even love, in his images. He treats each life formāwhether itās a parasite, a jellyfish, or a pollinatorāwith the same quiet reverence. Itās the kind of gaze youād expect from a poet or a philosopher. He invites us to see these creatures not as āother,ā but as fellow travelers, each of them navigating the same strange universe we are.
And heās more than just an image-maker. Heās a bridgeābetween the scientific and the aesthetic, the seen and the unseen. He speaks about complexity with clarity, about biology with wonder. His TED talks, his essays, his collaborations with other scientists and artistsātheyāre all part of a larger project: to reconnect people with the hidden beauty and interconnectedness of the world around them.
In person, Anand is thoughtful and self-effacing. He listens more than he talks. Thereās a quiet intensity to him, but also a calmness, as if heās always slightly tuned in to a slower rhythm than the rest of us. A rhythm more in sync with metamorphosis, decay, and bloom.
Itās hard not to feel changed after spending time with his work. It makes the invisible visible. It slows you down. It stirs awe.
And perhaps thatās the point. In an age when attention is fractured and nature is under siege, Anand Varma offers us a different kind of visionānot just to look more closely, but to feel more deeply. To remember that the world is full of wonders, if only we have the patience to see them.
A house where Jawaharlal Nehru family lived and where Indira Gandhi was born.
Allahabad, India. Taken with an iPhone 3G.
Battista "Pinin" Farina, the famous Italian cachbuilder always dreamt of creating a car bearing his name. In March 2019, Automobili Pininfarina unveiled the Battista. The Battista will be an all-electric hyper GT car to clients from 2020. 90 years after Battista founded Carrozzria Pininfarina, the Battista will be launched as Italy's most powerful and fastest car. Paolo Pininfarina, Michael Perschke, CEO of Automobili Pininfarina and Mahindra & Mahindra Chairman, Anand Mahindra, confirm that the limited-edition hypercard Battista will be the fastest and most powerful car ever designed and produced in Italy. Power and torque equate to 1.900 hp and 2.300 Nm respectively, meaning the Battista has the potential to accelerate to 100 km/h in less than 2 seconds, faster than a Formula 1 car, and break the 250 mph top speed barrier - all with a potential zero emissions range of over 300 miles. No more than 150 Battistas will be available from late-2020.
Class XIV : Hyper Cars
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2019
Knokke - Zoute
Belgiƫ - Belgium
October 2019