RAMNATH GOENKA INDIA PRESS PHOTO AWARDS 2004

THE INDIAN EXPRESS GROUP

Photographer Ritesh Uttamchandani won the Ramnath Goenka Picture of the Year Award.

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In the centennial year of its founder, Ramnath Goenka, the Indian Express Group initiated the India Press Photo Awards 08 to identify, promote and reward Indian press photographers. The Award ceremony was held at Express Lawns, Nariman Point on the 14th of Novermber 2008, with the Bollywood actor Salam Khan as Chief Guest for the evening.

The parameters for the Ramnath Goenka India Press Photo of the year are: a photograph showing outstanding visual qualities and telling a news story with great impact.

The Winning Picture for 2008 was won by Ritesh Uttamchandani –
The family of Sandford DeSales grieves near his body at his home in Mumbai. The intensity of the grief captured by the photographer preserves that moment, making the viewer feel part of the incident as if it were the loss of someone dear to him or her. The photographer presents the news in its darkest reality.

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Category:
General News Singles

Photo by:
Ritesh Uttamchandani,

The family of Sandford DeSales grieves near his body at his home in Mumbai. A hockey player and soccer goalkeeper, he died in the serial blasts.

Category:
General News Stories

Photo by:
Altaf Qadri,

Pilgrims circumambulate the Holy Kabba in Mecca.

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Category:
Spot News Singles

Photo by:
Ritu Raj Konwar, The Hindu

Guwahati Zoo officials try to push back the tigers mauling a visitor, Joyprakash Bezbarua, who had put his hand into their enclosure

Category:
Spot News Stories

Photo by:
Satish Kungar, Lokmat

A leopard that strayed into a residential area in Nasik injured people and created panic for eight hours before it was trapped.

Category:
People in the News Singles

Photo by:
Rajnish Kakade
The Associated Press

On his 42nd birthday, Shah Rukh Khan acknowledges the wishes of his fans from the terrace of his bungalow Mannat in Mumbai.

Category:
People in the News Stories

Photo by:
Atul Loke,

Orissa's little star runner, Budhia Singh, gets a massage. Born in 2002, Budhia ran over 60 km in six-and-a-half hours in 2006.

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Category:
Daily Life Singles

Photo by:
Santosh Shinde,

Children celebrate as sea waves splash onto Mumbai’s waterfront. And the monsoon arrives in June 2004.

Category:
Daily Life Stories

Photo by:
Sohrab Hura, Documentary Photographer

Dancers at the Sok San Palace bar in Siem Reap, Cambodia, take a break from performing for tourists..

Category:
Portrait Singles

Photo by:
T. Srinivas Reddy,

Orissa's Bonda tribe is one of the oldest tribes in the state but its numbers are declining steadily

Category:
Portrait Stories

Photo by:
Himanshu Vyas,
Hindustan Times

A voter gets his photograph taken for a voter's ID at a government camp in Jaipur.

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Category:
Nature & Enviornment Singles

Photo by:
Harish Tyagi,
European Press Photo Agency

Painted storks at the Delhi Zoo in winter.

Category:
Nature & Enviornment Stories

Photo by:
Neeraj Priyadarshi
Indian Express

Thousands of eggs were destroyed in bird flu-hit Navapur in Maharashtra.

Category:
Contemporary Issues Singles

Photo by:
Selvaprakash L,

Women in an old age home in Bangalore sleep next to the body of an inmate that is yet to be taken away.

Category:
Contemporary Issues Stories

Photo by:
Atul Loke,

Kavita (named changed) and her daughter are HIV positive. She struggles to feed her family, working from 5 a.m to 10 p.m.

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Category:
Sports Action
and Feature Singles
Photo by:
Hemant Padalkar
Hindustan Times

Angad Dev Singh Dugal, 22, was born with cerebral palsy. Here, helped by his family, he participates in the 2007 Mumbai Marathon.

Category:
Sports Action
and Feature Stories

Photo by:
Subhash Sharma,

Wrestlers sit on their trunks, their temporary homes with their names written on them, in an akhara in Mumbai.

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Category:
Arts & Entertainment Singles
Photo by:
Ritesh Uttamchandani

Children get ready for a ballet performance at St Andrews auditorium in Mumbai.

Category:
Arts & Entertainment Stories
Photo by:
Sohrab Hura

Traditional Holi in Braj Bhoomi.

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