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My forest home is not perfect.It leaks when it rains. The rain falls wildly there, without measure, without warning, dru...
14/05/2026

My forest home is not perfect.
It leaks when it rains. The rain falls wildly there, without measure, without warning, drumming on the roof like music through the night. Summers are cold enough to sleep without a fan. There is barely any electricity, sometimes none at all. No network. No constant noise from the world outside.

And yet, it is the quietest kind of home I know.

My daughter swims in the river, climbs trees without fear, runs barefoot through the mud, and waits her forest friends to come stay with us. Their laughter fills the house louder than any television ever could.

And me — I go there to disappear a little. To read. To breathe to draw. To sit with the rain, with fire, with silence. I once read somewhere that to find art, you have to go inward. And I think that is why this place feels so important to me.

Because every time I go there, away from the noise, away from the speed of the world, I return a little closer to myself.

Circle of life .is all about the economic of chillies. They are history, trade, survival, ritual, and economics.Every me...
07/05/2026

Circle of life .is all about the economic of chillies.

They are history, trade, survival, ritual, and economics.

Every meal carries that red heartbeat

People say the Portuguese brought chilies to Goa. But chilies did not remain here only because of taste — they stayed because of economics, preservation, farming, and the deep relationship people built with food.

Every ritual, every curry, every Goan household somehow carries the presence of chilies. From warding off the evil eye to flavoring the simplest meal, the chili became part of everyday life.

Summer conversations were always around chilies.
“Kitlayang adli misango ya fauti…”
“Kitlayachayalego…”
“Badran kashasa misango…”

These were the sounds of summer courtyards, of families drying and storing chilies for the monsoon and for the entire year ahead. This storing was called puramed — preparing for seasons before they arrived.

Chilies were grown by communities, and many still continue this tradition today. They were never just crops. They were security, trade, flavor, memory, and survival hanging under the Goan sun.

And somewhere between the fields, the markets, and the kitchen fires, the chili stopped being foreign. It became part of who we are.

Economic of chillies .....my on going photo project They are history, trade, survival, ritual, and economics.People say ...
07/05/2026

Economic of chillies .....my on going photo project

They are history, trade, survival, ritual, and economics.

People say the Portuguese brought chilies to Goa. But chilies did not remain here only because of taste — they stayed because of economics, preservation, farming, and the deep relationship people built with food.

Every ritual, every curry, every Goan household somehow carries the presence of chilies. From warding off the evil eye to flavoring the simplest meal, the chili became part of everyday life.

Summer conversations were always around chilies.
“Kitlayang adli misango ya fauti…”
“Kitlayachayalego…”
“Bajaran kashasa misango…”

These were the sounds of summer courtyards, of families drying and storing chilies for the monsoon and for the entire year ahead.
This storing was called purumet — preparing for seasons before they arrived.

Chilies were grown by communities, and many still continue this tradition today. They were never just crops. They were security, trade, flavor, memory, and survival hanging under the Goan sun.

And somewhere between the fields, the markets, and the kitchen fires, the chili stopped being foreign. It became part of who we are.
Part of our every day fish curry 🧿❤️🙏

you hadn’t come into my life, I often wonder how poor my world would have been — not in money, but in everything You bro...
02/05/2026

you hadn’t come into my life, I often wonder how poor my world would have been — not in money, but in everything

You brought me a richness I never knew I needed — a deeper understanding of life, of people, and of myself.
Through you, I found not just love, but a whole world: meaningful friendships, a beautiful daughter, and a life that feels full in ways no material thing could ever create.

We spend so much time thinking about buying that one expensive thing, or where we can cut costs on our travels.
But those things have never truly mattered to me in the way life itself does. If I ever had to cost-cut, I would never want it to be in the things that define who I am — my fitness, my work, my purpose, my growth. That kind of compromise would have been the real loss.

You’ve shown me that true wealth isn’t something you earn or buy — it’s something you build, feel, n laugh .
And because of you, I feel incredibly rich, deeply grounded, and endlessly grateful.

Thank you for being the kind of presence that transforms everything around it. My life is fuller, brighter, and far more meaningful because you are in it...stay with me always Nirmal.

Thank you for this yet another wholesome trip .... second time to & nicobar.with daughter
DISCLAIMER :NIRMAL DOESN'T RIDE A BIKE only a photopose .😊
Posting & Sharing your n mine fav song from college days for that moon mood

I’ll be out of network for about a week as I’m travelling to a remote location.If you need to reach me during this time,...
29/04/2026

I’ll be out of network for about a week as I’m travelling to a remote location.

If you need to reach me during this time, please feel free to email me at [email protected]. I may take a little longer to respond, but I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Happy Birthday, DrDeviya Rane ✨I don’t think a simple thank you will ever truly be enough. When so many doors stayed clo...
25/04/2026

Happy Birthday, DrDeviya Rane ✨

I don’t think a simple thank you will ever truly be enough. When so many doors stayed closed, you opened yours without hesitation — welcoming not just me, a stranger to you
but my dream of Forest Recipes of Goa one of its kind in india.
Something everyone had told would never happen so soon .

You believed in something that was still finding its voice, something many couldn’t see yet. Your support, your trust, creative freedom...
and your quiet strength helped shape this journey in this .

thanks to your wonderful team — Aditi D’Sousa, .12 Komal Pawar, and Errol — for supporting and nurturing this journey with such warmth.

Wishing you all a beautiful year ahead, filled with the same generosity and kindness and wisdom towards better goa India💛
Peace Assavri kulkarni

There are stories that stay with you long after the journey ends.While working on Forest Recipes of Goa, I spent time wi...
21/04/2026

There are stories that stay with you long after the journey ends.

While working on Forest Recipes of Goa, I spent time with a Dhangar family—pastoralists, foragers,
Their lives move with the land, not against it. Every gesture, from tending to their animals to gathering what the forest offers, carries a quiet wisdom.

What stayed with me most was their buttermilk. Simple at first glance, but deeply rooted in patience, technique, and understanding of their environment. It’s not just something they drink—it’s something they live by. I’ve written about this in the book, but being there, witnessing it, felt like stepping into a living tradition.

And then there was the light.

As a photographer, I found myself constantly searching—walking through their home, pausing at doorways, watching how light slipped through cracks, rested on faces, moved across walls. Every portrait you see here was a conversation between that light and the people who live within it. Nothing staged, nothing forced—just moments that revealed themselves.

The Dhangar festival was not just an event; it was a feeling. Of belonging. Of continuity. Of a life deeply connected to land, animals, and community.
Thankyou family
for navigation n assistants

These portraits are fragments of that experience.

FoodAndCulture ForagingLife PhotographyJourney

This season, my table holds another kind of salt.In the Forest Recipes of Goa, I speak about mangrove salt—quiet, tidal,...
20/04/2026

This season, my table holds another kind of salt.

In the Forest Recipes of Goa, I speak about mangrove salt—quiet, tidal, deeply rooted in our landscape. But this one has travelled to me from elsewhere, carried through friendship. My friend Devdatta brought it from Gokarna a salt shaped by the journey of the aghasheni River, one of the few rivers that still flows undammed through the Western Ghats.say dev

Because it flows free, it carries something rare—minerals, memory, movement. You can taste it. It isn’t just salt; it has a softness,

I’ve worked closely with the salt pans of Nerul, shooting documenting n buying my yearly lot, just like ajji but then in my betim village salt was sold on bullock carts ..and that relationship

In the summer heat, when I’m out shooting, walking long distances, I reach for it. Just a pinch in water—and it restores something immediate, almost instinctive. It feels like the body understands it.
Thankyou dev for this 🙏💫

Seasons greetings ❤️There’s a certain kind of joy that only a season can bring.Right now, my table feels like Goa is in ...
17/04/2026

Seasons greetings ❤️
There’s a certain kind of joy that only a season can bring.

Right now, my table feels like Goa is in its most generous mood—karvanda doing pickling dance in the salty waters..peru blushing looking at me..
cashews still tender and milky, jamble staining fingers purple, mangoes ripening faster than we can keep up, and ice apples offering that quiet, cooling sweetness.raw Mango curry with shrimps is everyday thing..
& Chunnas almost white wash my palette

It’s an abundance that feels almost euphoric...

These are the moments I want to hold onto. Because in Goa, seasons don’t just pass… they arrive with a feast.

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