Maharashtra: Seeing Home Differently
A quiet journey through a state that holds many Indias within it. It didn’t begin as a journey. It began as work. Bus timings, official visits, unfamiliar towns, long days that ended wherever the route ended. I wasn’t travelling to “see” Maharashtra — I was moving through it because I had to. And maybe that’s why it stayed real. No pressure to explore, no urge to capture. Just movement. Only later did I realise that moving without intention was what allowed me to actually see. Somewhere between crowded bus stands and long MSRTC routes, I realised how strange modern travel has become. In the age of reels, we don’t really travel anymore — we repeat images. We rush to Manali, Rajasthan, Kerala, not to understand regions, but to confirm what we’ve already seen online. A few viral spots get crowded, reduced, flattened. We visit places, not states. Locations, not lives. Maharashtra doesn’t work that way - because it isn’t a place you consume. It’s a state you move through, slowly...