At the Hanging Gardens with Mr. Pillai.

Mr Pillai was my photography teacher. We did not hang anyone!

A year after I started photography and produced some horrible photographs, I took a course at the Pillai School of Photography at Fort, in Bombay.

Mr. Pillai was a fabulous, lively, articulate, passionate, and humorous teacher. He took us to the Hanging Gardens in Bombay - I refuse to call the city Mumbai - for a photo walk, where I shot a few more horr…