Akhil Komachi Photography

06/04/2025

A vision carved in time.

04/04/2024

Chasing the bloom of spring amidst the towering peaks of the Himalayas.
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28/09/2019

Almost all the small entrepreneurships we saw had almost equal and at times more women than men carrying them on. I met this enthusiastic group of workers while I was trekking tango monastry. They are here to renovate the monastry. My sedentery lifestyle back home was giving me quite a hard time when these people were walking past me in rhythm to old bhutanese pahadi songs. North or south, east or west, there is nothing like music which makes the work a little more easier and merrier !

27/09/2019

Hello folks!
Its been a long time since I posted something. But now feels like the right time.
I don't know what you guys feel like, but the last couple of months have been too scary for me (No, I'm not talking about my engagement). The well predicted climate change and its effects are finally here on full blow. The flood was catastrophic at home and then came the burning amzon. I haven't done nothing significant, not even planted one single plant in a long long time and posting and crying about the burning forests seemed like hypocrisy and I'm writing this with the same guilt.
I have been sharing a series from bhutan with you guys, so here is something I picked up from there.
There is a belief in the bhutanese culture that the natural elements of the earth: wind, water, rocks, trees, lakes and mountains are the abode of gods and goddesses and spirits and demons. They inhabit these areas and are believed to punish, with death and disease, those who disturb and pollute their domain.
You believe this myth or not, the predicted pay back is coming and our kids are to be born to an earth which is already on fire.
Writing this while I try to cool myself under the a/c the only thing that inspires me is how a small country of the size of calicut is doing things for nature comparing to the entire world. 60 percent of their land is forest. They are frikkin carbon negetive! Their Iifestyle is more or less like this beautiful monastry in the picture. They did not bring down an entire hill to build a building, they added themselves to the nature, fitting perfectly. They have learnt to live WITH the nature unlike us, altering everything according to our suiting, changing the entire topography of the place we inhabit.
I have no idea how the new wave of modernisation going to affect this little nation, but I hope they still have fresh air and clean water unlike our kids.
Reference : bhutan the path towards sustainable devolopment.

04/08/2019

There are certain moments in life that you feel like has been played by god himself in first hand.
It was raining heavily in the evening in Haa and out of desperation to save my camera, I ran into a home and stayed in its verandah. I couldn't find any house owners, so I thought it was pretty chill. It was around the time kids go back home from school and so many kids were on the road so i decided to walk back to the road and thats when I met this serious looking man in his 40's walking towards me. There was an aura of authority around him so I was pretty sure that he is the owner of the house. I panicked and tried to explain him in broken Hindi and English why I was at his home, uninvited. I tried telling him I was from kerala and then he surprised me by asking "naattil evideyaa"!!

That is how I met Wilson sir and 2 of his other collegues, Noufal sir and Suresh sir. He is one hell of a man himself and he has the stories from bhutan spread over 2 decades!
One of the distinct things you would observe in Bhutan is about gender, sexuality and respect and through out our endless talk over outrageously tasty home cooked food, this story striked me as the best one to explain that.
It was in early 2000s that he came to Bhutan for the first time and his friend had taken him to dinner. Then they meet this two young beautiful woman sitting around the corner of the restaurant, soon all the eyes of the young men in the room was on the lovely duo. Suddenly this man comes up to the ladies and ask one of them out, for dating obviously. She respectfully denied his request and said they were le****ns. The man left the table with an apology.
That was 20 years ago folks. Bhutanese knew then and now also how to treat women and her choices with respect. How to peacefully ask someone out without stalking the crap out of them. To accept men and women for what they really are.
This land might be strange for us in a way were women wear lungi and men wear the skirt ( again Wilson sir's anology) but they sure knows how to treat another human being with respect and dignity.

30/06/2019

Faces of bhutan.
Remember this face, a few tales coming ahead.

23/06/2019

Shades of kolkata

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23/06/2019

The city wakes up so fast and people start filling up the gallis and roads in a blink of an eye. This is one of the usual visual near howrah bridge if you happen to be here for the sunrise. masses of people- both men and women, do their washing, bathing and almost everything you can think of here! it makes you realise if there ain't a penny in your pocket and a roof over your head, the shame slowly fades away and survival becomes the fight.
That's the thing about Kolkata, the enormity of the people here will bug, creep and even scare you sometimes but then most of the times its the most comfortable place to be in.

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26/11/2018

Pragabhal Shekha wedding teaser.

26/11/2018

10/06/2018

colours of joy

07/06/2018

Family trip