Kaveri
I born and spent all my thirty-four years near this river. After spending five years in formal education of fine arts and fifteen years of studies in artistic creation and history, when I set upon to work as a photographer, I impelled to take up this project, particularly in the beginning of my career, for many reasons.

Tolstoy says to understand the course of the history we have to use it as a backdrop and add humans to it to compare the scale and movement of both, to study them. In this case to understand my origins and where I stand culturally is the primary force behind this project. Also, I get to know the current state of the country and how I can identify myself with it as an artist are its by-products. By standing at this 3.8 billion years old hillock which is older than the Himalayas, and its temple, near my hometown, to have a view of the river, I am standing in the place of where Sangam period poets, (around 4th century BC) early Cholas (3 and 2nd century BC), Kalabhras (3rd to 6th century) Badami Chalukyas (6th to 8th century), the Cholas (8th to 12th century), Hoysalas, Sultans, Marathas, Nayaks and British were standing at various periods of the last two millennia.

Also, the study of the myths and monuments and its people and their relationship with the river become a perfect metaphor to understand what is India and Indianness in the 21st century. I am attempting to look into what we have got from the river and what we have given to her, hence at what state we both are now too.