This book brings together a selection of the author's photographs that have been taken over the past four decades. Some go back even longer in time. It is a book of pictures, in terms of attractive visuals for the reader to be engaged, simply by turning the pages but not quite in a conventional sense. These photographs are about the world around us. In fact, its title captures the essential idea of its dual theme.\n\nThe focus is on people in their daily lives and on places that are of interest to visitors. There are photographs of people, which depict life in its ordinary, engaging, striking or even amusing dimensions. There are photographs of places, which range from the beautiful and exquisite to the stark and the awesome. The pictures are not from India alone but from countries across the world. This geographical spread, juxtaposed with human diversity across continents in space, is perhaps an attribute that makes this collection different from most others. Both the similarities and the differences are fascinating.