I did not generalize the city based on BSNL experience. In fact what i’ve written in the end is:
“Oh, but I’m far from disappointed. I’m still looking forward……waiting to see what is waiting for me.”

You are right in your analogy. All that I wanted to say is that in the first few days, I didnt recieve the warmth which I recieved when I first reached Hyderabad. People over there were more warm, helpful, open and receptive. Here I always get a feeling of being unwanted: whether it is from the autowallah, or street vendor or the vegetable market or coming to my example, BSNL office. The moment I’m found speaking a different language than kannada, there is a resistance.

But this city has its won merits too…….some parts of it are really clean, systematic and cool. The summer is so much more better….For women it’s much more comfortable to walk in the public without getting stared at…….etc, I told you I’m waiting with expectations.

I go to a bank for some transaction.If the person at the counter is good to me and does my work with a smile,I will make a generalised statement that XYZ bank s good.Actually the person you met was good and not the bank policies in general.

And if you have bad experience,it may be because of the person at the counter and not the because of the bank per se.

I hope you got what i wanted to convey

No I didnt want you to take it so personaly. Yes, you are right that you just click what comes before you.
I was just trying to say that perhaps as artisits and photgraphers, one should be more conscious about the exisiting visual tastes, visual habits, prejudices etc of the audience. Fed on a [perhaps even colonial] diet of the powerless before an all powerful lense, the viewers sort of identify these pictures with those which were taken to show case misery. Whether you actally meant it to be that, comes second. The question is how different can one capture? I know we ourselves would have internalized some of those bad frames and angles. I myself do not know the answer quite well.
And let me tell you, I’m saying all these becauseI did like some of the pictures.

Again very much a personal opinion

But somehow, I’m always uneasy with photos of the *poor* and the *helpless*, as if they are anthropological objects or exhibition pieces for us, you know, not normal human beings like the photgrapher and the viewer. Sorry, I didnt want to sound judgemental, but…

Thanks again

hope u have a gr8 time in here! 🙂