Meeting Bresson must have left an impact on you. What was it like?
His vision had so much intuitiveness and magic about it. And he came from a background that did not make it imperative that he served any newspaper or magazine. It was the other way around: magazines were chasing him. They knew what he was worth and gave him his due. In a newspaper or a magazine, it is the photographs that become the window to the world, and not the endless grey brickwork that is the written text. A lot of people will still remember the India Today of the 80’s, especially for its images. And much of that credit goes to you. How did you visually influence one of the finest news magazines of the country? It was 1982. The core team of us at India Today made sure that the layout, design, the visual impact of the magazine grew. But, we had a lot of fun in putting together that magazine. Surely enough, every issue of India Today had something different to offer to the reader. Things on the ground have changed from the times that you shot to now. What is it like shooting the
