Amit Mehra, India

Timeless India

Images...Glimpses, steeped in the colours of tradition, soaked in sacred waters and suffused with the wisdom of cultural values. Such are the images found in “Timeless India”. People, who breathe its very soul. People, who embrace the rising clout of India as a global superpower and yet, grasp that its distinctive individualism comes from the strength of its secular heritage. Scan this project and you will find the faces of people, who exemplify that even with the many milestones of progress that every era and generation spans, it is the inherent core of a multi-religious and cross-cultural identity that continues to define the celebration called India.

I have been asked, at times, that being bound to traditional values is what keeps one from acknowledging the concept of globalization. On the contrary, it is only when an individual has a connection and an understanding of his own roots, that he can gauge the idea of globalization far more profoundly.

India, as a nation finds expression through the medium of its many religions. A revelry that emerges from the roots of faith and belief. A kaleidoscope, in which each remains a unique element and yet comes together to compose a picture of brilliance. It can be found in the pages of history that saw a multitude of races and peoples come to India, generate influences and ideologies that were taken into the vast folds of its being and find home by adapting our customs as ‘Indians’. A reflection of how India has always maintained an expansive acceptance of all cultures as modes of eternal values and, which has been the essence of its secular spirit. A connect that is as evident today as it was before; an aspect that shapes who we are as Indians.