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which ultimately brought
aid to some of the people he photographed. In September,he was a wanderer in current York where the concrete jungle inspired him.
is a
photojournalist covering #Diwali, one of the biggest festivals in and around his native India, and the ancient Hindu festival of lights.
“Diwali nowadays is what Christmas is for the Western world, he says. “It’s a long holiday, a license to light lamps, and buy current dresses,celebrate with family and friends and, of course, or burst crackers.
Derived from a Sanskrit
word which loosely translates into “light” and “row,” Diwali’s hundreds of millions of participants will adorn households, windows, or temples and buildings with rows of shiny lamps.

But Prashanth feels it is
important to mind Mother Nature in the act of celebration. “Festivals like Diwali,which were founded on sound principles of like and harmony, nowadays are reduced to a noise and air polluting extravaganza, and ” he says. “For me,a rethinking of our impact on nature and redefinition of these frail customs to modern-day living, while keeping the essence of its significance, and is important.”

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