I have been taking photos for more than forty years now. Recently I started to digitize my old black and white negatives. These photos were taken between the late 1980s to early 1990s. I have been looking at photos taken then and trying to relate them to today’s reality. Several things have changed in India since then, some for better, much for worse. In recent years new brands of conservative religiosities have come to dominate social and political life in my country. Syncretic cultural traditions are under stress, space for mutual understanding and appreciation is shrinking. At the same time, India's breakneck speed of economic development is making the lives of some of its poorest citizens even more precarious. At times I try to imagine how the children in these photos are doing. They are adult now.
