Vinay Panjwani Photography (2026)

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Some images i recently made at Jodhpur

28/02/2026

An open Auditorium formed of stepped terraces crowns this sprawling brick clad university building - Prestige university Indore by

07/02/2026

Shot for Flame Uni Pune

06/02/2026

Flame University .

23/01/2026

Get • They call it a ghost town, but Siddhpur’s long pastel rows do not appear dead. They look paused. At any moment, it feels like a door could open, a family could return, a conversation could pick up mid-sentence. Nearly every Indian architectural photographer has pointed a lens at its elaborate facades. It is visually irresistible, a city with no wrong angles. But unlike Chettinad or Jaipur, Siddhpur has not been converted into a hospitality economy or spectacle for tourism. Its grandeur exists sans audience or performance.

The city occupies a rare position in India’s cultural and architectural landscape, representing maximalism shaped by time, migration and layered identity. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dawoodi Bohra mercantile community financed and constructed an extraordinary concentration of domestic architecture — the pastel Vohrawad mansions. They reflect the global exchange economies of the Bohra diaspora, integrating European Neo-Classical facades, Art Deco geometry, Baroque detailing, Islamic ornament and Gujarati domestic planning into a singular urban fabric. These were homes with kitchens, prayer rooms, deep courtyards, stitched textile traditions and domestic ceremonial spaces structured around daily life. Today, most of these houses are uninhabited. Shaped by migration, changing trade routes and shifting aspirations, the Bohra mansions stand locked, their families long dispersed. And yet, the town remains essential because it contains an intersection of sacred history, domestic architecture and diasporic imagination. Siddhpur is an irreplaceable record of how India builds meaning across centuries. It is a document of what India once built, what it still remembers, and maybe what it is yet to understand.

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Guest Editor Sabyasachi Mukherjee
Text by Shriti Das .h.r.i.t.i
Photography by Vinay Panjwani .vinay
Produced by Mrudul Pathak Kundu .pathak