Minhajul Haque

सामान्य जानकारी

The journey of my life should have started with a self-exploration as well as an acknowledgement of my strengths and my limitations. As a child raised in rural India, nature has always been a great interest. But I hardly gave any value to it; all my life I was trying to be to what most Indian parents encourage their children to be. Perhaps, it is a commonly known profession like doctor, engineer or lawyer and even better if it is a government job. Living a life that we want to live may get very complicated if it has to seek external validation. Therefore, I was about to follow the crowd unless I had a nervous breakdown that brought me home, to my village; and I badly needed some time to reconcile my relationships with everything else. But I strongly believed that what happened, it happened for a purpose which had been asking for my attention for a long time than a doctor's prescription.

Unless we occupy our mind with complaints, no matter what we go through in our life the very time makes us capable of something that simply cannot be done at other times. I still wonder how I got all the courage to move beyond who I was at the time I was going through such a crisis which became a question of my survival. I felt the very essence of starting my life in a very different way, the way I'm intended for, the way I can enjoy my life and give away a part of it. Time went by and I could hardly make a choice.Eventually, all the emotional and economical threats for being confused, hopeless and purposeless suggested me to live each day as a completely separate life. I made it a rule. As each day became the last day of my life I decided to enjoy it instead of ruining it. I learned how to make the most out of my day using things that were available to me than things that were at a distance. I started doing only what made me feel good, that inspired me from inside and resonated my heart and mind. This idea of living worked very well for me, perhaps, I understood it well.Every morning I woke up I felt, "I am blessed with a beautiful day and what else do I need? Rather, I should take an inventory for the air I'm offered to breathe for which many are willing to pay all their wealth. It's not how long but how we live that matters. It's not how secure but how adventurous life could be." So, I started enjoying the rural landscape again.

Naturally, everything began to change as I began to experience my life as absolutely fundamental with a great clarity. I came to realise about my responses to the complex social practices and to the elementary things that surround me. Maybe it was an awareness of human comprehension that came from my consciousness. Although I was late to understand the necessity of uniqueness and individuality, I busied myself with cultivating my neglected characters that manifested themselves as awkwardness at my early age. I really wanted them back. I wanted me to it's purest form possible that was almost destroyed in the environment of superstition and ignorance.

Although my decisions went against my family, it was July 2013 I decided to start my life over. No matter what we chose to do even which doesn't violet others' rights, we are going to be criticised. Maybe the civilisation works this way; which seems to be incapable of fulfilling the unique potentials of its members or we are not yet civilised at all. Aristotle said: "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." However, in the interest of all concerned, I went ahead, quit college, hooked on nature photography, and gave up a career as a software developer. Dropping out of college expanded my learning experience that also saved me from the linear expectations of our traditional education system. It allowed me to invest my time on the things that seemed far more interesting. Then I managed to buy a used camera and started photographing my neighbouring places along the river sides. Seeing nature with a camera eventually became a whole lot different experience and I fell in love with it very quickly as it showed me the quiet, secret, and strange appearances of the world that tell us about love and serenity. I picked it, to avoid my poor translation, and became restless in order to make it a medium of my expression.