Puri, is a tourist attraction place in Orissa. Its like my second home. I keep on visiting Puri when I plan for a long and lazy holiday. Well, its peaceful and homely for me. I know this place thoroughly and hence and much more comfortable to communicate with the people around me. 

Precisely, am quite an unsocial person and its quite a disadvantage for a photographer but in Puri I don't really have to initiate. The ambience and the people around me gives me the urge of talking to them.

The serenity of the Sea makes me sit there for hours and not feel monotonous of the surroundings. It's always more peaceful to be gathered around your own obsessive thoughts and its the best place I can say. The balloon sellers, the fisherman fishing early at dawn, the dogs sleeping soundly, the kids playing on the beach, all comes together to make the place much more acceptable.

- Archan Basu