If you want to know the feel of a place, you need to be on foot, on the street, off the beaten tourist path, and not part of a herd. It is not enough to see something of it through a window. You have to be where you can hear it, touch it, taste it, smell it. Step in it.

To capture detail and intimacy in narrative photographs, I like to use a wide angle lens and step into the scene.

This gallery is a series of photographs from street level that tell some stories of the “feel” I got for Kolkata and countryside.