Lust for Learning

A Photographic Exhibition

All Photographs by K.L.Kamat

First Online: September 04,2004
Page Last Updated: October 07,2009

Introduction

by Vikas Kamat

One day in the year 2001, as we walked over a bridge near Milk Colony neighborhood in Bangalore, my father, K.L.Kamat pointed me to a young girl studying for school in a shanty-town below. She was sitting outside of her tent, and careless of the drama around her (traffic, cows, pollution), was engrossed in homework. "You know Vikas, I think we need to make a feature on our website about these people who pursue academics even in the face of great adversity" -- he'd said "I even have thought of a name for it: Lust for Learning".

Dad never compiled that feature, but on the occasion of his 70th birth anniversary, in his fond memory I present the following exhibition that I have put together from his picture archive.

© K. L. Kamat

Handicapped Children Studying
The hostel of Jana Seva Trust, Melukote

© K. L. Kamat

A Sanskrit Scholar Engrossed in Study

© K. L. Kamat

Tibetan Boy at a Refugee School, Mundgod
A young Tibetan boy writing on a wooden plank

© K. L. Kamat

Lust for Learning
Old man reads scriptures, in the pilgrimage center of Gokarn, Uttara Kannada

© K. L. Kamat

Outdoor Study!
Girl studies for college as she waters the farm

© K. L. Kamat

Old Man Attempts to Improve his Hand-writing
Using the back-side of a wall calendar, Ganesh Burde, 85, practices his Bengali

See Also:

• Pictorial Biography of K. L. Kamat