At first glance, the picture might come across as staged, until you see a friend on the left trying to get a ‘staged candid’. Little did they know they had walked into an unassuming photographer’s frame. On a warm afternoon, during the high (Dasara) season inside the renowned Amba Vilas Palace, Mysore, I’d been waiting for the past half hour for a subject to walk into my frame. A sea of people came and went past me but none felt right until this moment.