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Stepping on to the sanatorium's external metal staircase adjacent to his ward (a staircase whose landings double as so many back porches), Virraj Sorhvi is able to survey the south side of the mountain ridge that is Shimla in the Indian state of the Himāchal Pradesh — with its view of the Tara Devi peak cradled by.... more

Virraj Sorhvi takes matters — and the camera — into his OWN hands and, working from his wheelchair parked near a cup of cappuccino at Shimla's Barista café, points the lens first at the crowd scene on The Mall, the main drag right outside the window, with its show of would-be trendy hipsterism (which in the.... more

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT. Virraj Sorhvi leisurely savours a cappuccino at the Barista café in Shimla — a resort town that is India's answer to Davos — while on a furtive sortie from the Simla Sanitarium & Hospital where he is hospitalized: the diversion offers the opportunity for taking in the scene on The.... more

Virraj Sorhvi's sanatorium in Shimla (in the Indian state of the Himāchal Pradesh, an area known to the outside world as the Lesser Himalayas) — an institution in which Virraj has now spent three months — evokes in some crucial respects Bruno Schulz's vision of a similar establishment portrayed in his book.... more

Northern Indian countryside as it appears from a car, here captured by Virraj Sorhvi's visitor travelling along the Ambala-Mullana Road (State Highway № 5), near the village of Saha in the Indian state of Haryana in August 2007. Fourteen seconds of ultimate — pure and undiluted — joy-ride (rural variety,.... more

A short vignette showcasing part of the prayer service at the Hindu temple located in the grounds of the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, as witnessed by an outsider to the ritual. Virraj Sorhvi, who was a patient at the hospital at the time, captured the proceedings during a casual stroll in a wheelchair one fine.... more

WHETHER YOU CONSIDER IT ORGANIZED LOAFING OR BASEBALL ON VALIUM, or indeed something else altogether, watch a snippet of a game of cricket — as it is played by some very young patients "down below" on the lower level of Virraj Sorhvi's sanatorium in Shimla (in the Indian state of the Himāchal Pradesh). .... more

THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, also known as the aurora borealis, are often thought to be restricted (in their full splendour at least) to the so-called auroral zone, which includes Scandinavia and the coast of Siberia, although the phenomenon has been witnessed in the United States, according to the Encyclopædia Britannica,.... more

Sunset over the Himalayas — as ravishingly beautiful as could be expected — captured by Virraj Sorhvi from his eagle's aerie on a slope in the Lesser Himalayas. ♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he has been convalescing (with active osteomyelitis or bone infection) at the Simla.... more

Glimpses — and some occasional broader vistas — of the Lesser Himalayas as experienced from a vehicle moving along the Kalka-Shimla road in the Indian state of Himāchal Pradesh one fine morning in May 2008. ♦ Virraj has been hospitalized continuously since 4 July 2005; he has been convalescing (with active.... more