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See you on the other side.

So I’ve realized me keeping a tumblr blog is kind of a futile exercise, as most of my audience is on instagram and 500px and content on my blog here hardly has any engagement.

I request all my followers here to follow me on instagram.com/pulakbhatnagar to stay updated with my new photography/drawing/design/mixology work.

Cheers

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1. The chandelier at #jamamasjid in #olddelhi

2. The flute guy of #newdelhi He goes through the lanes of Delhi gated localities every week, playing beautiful and melodious tunes on the flute to enchant the young kids into buying one for themselves. Says he still sells enough of them to sustain himself.

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From the Top:

1. Splash screen for Veg Non Veg website. Made in collaboration with Emilia Bergmans where we drew letters with actual toothpaste.

2, 3, 4:  Illustrations for an upcoming chain of food booths specializing in noodles, done @the_brewhouse . Work in progress.

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From the top:

1. I made Gnocchi with mushroom, babycorn and thyme the other night for dinner. Garnished with mint, lime zest, mozzarella and olive oil. Slept so well after that meal. 🐰

2. Dinner cooking. Hummus and pesto veggie sandwich with roasted carrots and babycorn on the side. The veggie salad inside the sandwich had sprouts, onion, rocket and mint leaves, sliced zucchini, tomato and cucumber, with olive oil and herbs seasoning. I have made more food posts this week than I ever do. 🍴🐰

3. Let's just say I was in the flow. Cooked Pesto pasta with Broccoli last night. Home made pesto with fresh basil, pine nuts, almonds, sunflower-pumpkin seeds and olive oil. Tossed with Broccoli, thyme, walnuts and garlic. Yumneess unlimited!

4. I was reminiscing about the salty-sweet tomato soup that we used to get during train journeys (ala irctc). Decided to get inspired by that memory and do a dish of my preparation. The base thick soup is tomatoes, black carrots, turnip, sprouts and arugula with spices. Loaded on top with brocolli, bokchoy, carrots, turnips, corn, green chana, mint, crispy croutons and almonds.

5. Cooked tomato and black Carrot pasta, mushroom sautéed in thyme and lemon grass, topped with almonds, walnuts, seeds, chopped basil and feta cheese.

6. Raining outside, Stan Getz on Spotify, breeze through the window and a strawberry gimlet in my hand.

7. At this very moment I'm craving a dessert cocktail. Specifically the drink I made and call it 'Dark Charm' which has cocoa powder, Limon rum, lime juice, sugar syrup, chocolate bitters and shaken with egg white.

8. Some cocktails I made for Sanchit and Khyati last night. Featuring a rocket and mint gimlet (or a rocket east-side), The Clover club, Gin and Jam with blackberry preserve, Thyme smoked bourbon old fashioned and a hot-tea toddy. Photos stolen from Sanchit's instagram. 😀🍹

9. Who needs a breakfast cocktail in their system this weekend? Tequila, strawberry Syrup, lime juice, Grapefruit bitters and egg white. Smooth yet dry mouth feel, make it your coffee replacement. 😆

10. How to start this Sunday off? I know, make a #Sazerac. #absinthe wash on the glass, #peychauds bitters, #rittenhouse rye #whiskey and that twisted orange peel expressed over the giant ice cube.

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Photographs from Akshay bhaiya's wedding in gorakhpur.

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Photos from Akshay bhaiya's wedding in gorakhpur.

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Photos from Akshay bhaiya's wedding in gorakhpur.

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Trip to Himachal. Kotgarh to be precise. 11 hours drive one way with 3 other friends. Hiked to Hatu Peak and back down. Great experience, did some night photography too.

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Winter cocktails from this month: 1. Got winter blues? Make a Hot tea toddy like I made yesterday. Chamomile tea brewed with anistar, cinnamon, honey, cloves and love. Base of Jim beam bourbon. 2. A cocktail I'd like to call 'Gin Cin' because it's made with apple and cinnamon jam by Bhuira jams, London dry gin and muddled Himachali apples. Garnished with apple fan sprinkled with cinnamon. Take that winter!

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Was practicing some new cocktails, shown here is a Gin Aperol Sour.

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Some more photographs since I last updated my blog.

#1: A young monk giving smoke offering at the Royal palace monastery in sikkim while the performers get ready for the traditional pang lhabsol dance ceremony. #2: A Buddhist nun going downstairs at the tsuklakhang as the young monks follow her running, at the pang lhabsol festival in gangtok, sikkim #3: A young monk fights an eye burn as he fulfills his responsibility of cooking food for the whole monastery in a smoke filled dark room lit with a single bulb and the light from wood fire. Rinchenpong, Sikkim. #4: Preparation for the pang lhabsol festival that was being celebrated at the tsuklakhang in gangtok after 28 years. #5: Early morning view from our guest house in gangtok, sikkim few weeks ago. #6: A Carpenter shop in Gangtok, Sikkim.

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Identity Design and Branding done for The Art of Sport, a professional training company by Richard and Nupur Paiva that is committed to the overall development of young girls, aged between 6 and 11 years, through sport. Designed while working at The Brewhouse, Delhi.

Checkout the whole project HERE

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#1: dawn time at the new Delhi airport #2: Shahpur jat is the fashion hub of Delhi. It's also full of extremely talented tailors and master craftsmen. When there is a power outage in the block, all of them come out to the balcony to get some air. Casually listening to their radio channels, messaging their friends and drying their hard work sweat. #3: sunset in delhi #4: daredevil man climbing a cell phone tower. #5: two awesome travel companions, photographed at Tashiding monastery in Sikkim.

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More street photographs from last 2 months or so. I couldn't get out to shoot as much as I'd like to though.

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It's been a learning and experimenting month for me when it comes to mixology. On the world negroni day, I made a Negroni flip. Amazing texture and new flavours. Last week I was playing around with coffee as an ingredient in cocktails. Pictured above are the coffee-bourbon old fashioned smoked in coffee smoke, coffee-gin sour garnished with cinnamon and coffee grind for a split aroma and last is a drink called 'The wake up call' which is a twist of a cold coffee but with triple sec and gin.

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I took a street+Coffee photography workshop with blue tokai coffee roasters in delhi in may. Had a lot of fun teaching basics to enthusiasts and sipping coffee alongside.

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Our cats vector and raster going through their day. Sleeping on top of cupboard, sleeping on bed, chilling in balcony, sleeping behind curtains.