Doors of Old city Ahmedabad
UNESCO has declared Ahmedabad as a world heritage site, thereby becoming the first Indian city to get this status. The only city where sun splinters through the rims of the French balcony, subtly lighting up the meandering lanes beneath. The windows, half broken creak, but the dusty wooden doors remain locked. The chabutro (bird feeder) in the courtyard awaits its first flock, and the walls in red, yellows, blues, and greens, become a shade richer, as the dawn slowly casts its magic.
These old housing clusters or the Pols of Ahmedabad have not only survived the test of time, they are still very alive and brimming with the Gujarati culture. Built in the times of communal tension and social unrest in the region hundreds of years ago, the Pols (derived from the Sanskrit word Pratoli meaning gate) are a conglomeration of houses that were usually inhabited by people and families linked together with caste, culture or profession. This was my classroom photography project to capture essence of people without any person only through their doors and window, through architecture, culture and values.
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