About

Mayank Kapoor. Manchester, UK. Transformation consultant by profession. Builder, walker and photographer by disposition.

Manana, मनन, is the second step of the old Vedantic method of learning. Śravaṇa is hearing the teaching. Manana is reflecting on it until borrowed belief becomes your own conviction. Nididhyāsana is absorbing it until it changes how you see. This site is my manana done in public. The essays are the reflection. The photographs are what the walking eye keeps while the mind churns. These essays are how I churn through the things I think about anyway. Dharma and how to live. The movement of power between nations. The systems and machines we build. The psychology of staying sane while doing all of it.

The photographs come from the same discipline. I walk with a camera and the street and the landscape decide what I get to keep. Nothing here is advice. It is a workshop with the door left open.

The mark

An original device. The word मनन sits inside a signet ring, standing over three diminishing waves. The waves are the triad. Śravaṇa, manana, nididhyāsana. Each one quieter than the last. It is imprinted on every published photograph. Being an original composition, it can be registered as a trademark in your name.