March 10 marked the 51st anniversary of Tibetan’s occupation by the people’s Republic China: Emotions ran high as hundreds of Tibetan in Gangtok and Kalimpong marched in observance of their date in 1959, when Tibetans held people’s Liberation Army while still officially a sovereign nation. By the late 1950s it was clear to Tibetans that [...]
Just like any other day, Chottu as usual woke up early in the morning and went to his primary school, He had plans to play with Reshma after the school is over. They had a small corner in Reshma’s hut as their own, private little home. But on that day of March 5th 2010 something [...]
World Water Day, is marked and observed all over the world to spread awareness and to protect the constantly vanishing life also named as Water. Along with numerous campaigns, Blogs and reportage all over the world, PhotoPeer also published one article on World Water Day. Our intention was to spread the awareness about preserving fresh [...]
The world might have been aware of the slogan – ‘Shine India.’ In the year 1991 India opened its doors to the economic globalization. The outcome of globalization has been a huge increase in salaries of the personnel working for MNCs or their local competitors. This has come really as a boon for the English-speaking [...]
Varanasi, or more commonly known as the Benaras or Kashi, which is regarded as one of the continuously inhabited cities in the world and probably the oldest in India, was Photopeer’s latest destination of exploration. A place, rich in its culture and history, steeped in aesthetic values of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, is still moving [...]
An almost eight million square feet area behind the great old Ghalib Bar… there sited a modest playground along in the midst of an old huge Victorian edifice and a few numbers of cluttered slum houses. Now all those are just history. That eight million square feet area has been scattered into concrete fragments… now, [...]
On one lazy winter afternoon, in the light of the setting Sun, I came across a very old mansion surrounded by a slum on the bank of river Ganga. The old house, now almost dilapidated, standing tall in the middle of a ground with its all glory faded today. It appeared as a very old [...]
The day is Bijoya Dashami, the end of the six-day Durga Puja festival, bidding adieu to the Goddess and hoping for the new celebrations in the coming year!! But this end of the festival also marks the festival of friendship and union among the residents of the borders lands of India and Bangladesh. On the [...]
