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In-stills: Portraits from the depths of India

  • For Harsh Agarwal, who owns a travel company called Indian Maharaja Tour, therapy comes in the form of scrolling through the moments he has stored in his photo gallery.
  • He bought his first DSLR camera, a Canon 1100 D, in 2009 when he witnessed a magnificent tiger emerging from the mist at Ranthambore Tiger Reserve on a client trip and had nothing to capture that moment in.
  • He now uses the Nikon D850, Nikon D810 with Nikon 200-500mm, Nikon 70-200 (2.8), Nikon 24-70 (2.8), Nikon 85 mm (1.8), Nikon 50 mm (1.8), and Tokina 16-24 (2.8) lenses.

During these dystopian times, when the country is collectively whimpering in pain, harking back to happier times is perhaps one of the few ways to hang on to hope. And for Harsh Agarwal, who owns a travel company called Indian Maharaja Tour, therapy comes in the form of scrolling through the moments he has stored in his photo gallery.


Agarwal started his career as a tour guide in 2007. “I was always fascinated with the cameras my western guests use to carry,” Agarwal tells Business Insider.


However, he only bought his first DSLR camera, a Canon 1100 D, in 2009 when he witnessed a magnificent tiger emerging from the mist at Ranthambore Tiger Reserve on a client trip and had nothing to capture that moment in.


“After finishing my tour, the first thing I did was I bought my camera and I started travelling on my own,” says Agarwal. He now uses the Nikon D850, Nikon D810 with Nikon 200-500mm, Nikon 70-200 (2.8), Nikon 24-70 (2.8), Nikon 85 mm (1.8), Nikon 50 mm (1.8), and Tokina 16-24 (2.8) lenses.
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