Capturing dreams: photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Dinesh Khanna, after a bath: self-portrait. 1904, Lawrence Road house, Lahore, India Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Kulwant Roy: Gandhi stepping of a train in in the early 1940s Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Satyajit Ray giving directions to Madhuri Mukharjee during shooting of the movie Mahanagar in 1963. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

TS Satyan, Boys cooling off on a summer day in Bombay,1970 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Dismembered head of intellectual killed on 14th of December 1971 by local collaborators of Pakistani army, Bangladesh Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Pablo Bartholomew, from the series on western junkies in India and winner of the World Press Photo, 1975. The life of an european morphine addict in a small sleazy hotel room in the tourist ghetto area of Pahar Ganj, near the New Delhi railway station Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Raghubir Singh, Pavement mirror shop, Howrah, West Bengal, 1991 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Ketaki Sheth, Prashant and Pranav, by their front door, Karamsad, Gujarat, 1998 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Reassurance by Nandini Mutiah Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Bijoy Chowdhury, Boy with a mask, 2004 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Anay Mann, untitled,2005. From the series About Neetika Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Anita Khemka, Waiting for a train at Jabalpur station, Madhya Pradesh, 2006 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Bani Abidi, from the series The Ghost of Mohammad Bin Qasim, 2006 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

The cyclone Sidr ripped through the southwestern coast on November 15, killing over 2997 people till date and demolishing houses, crops, vegetables and trees alike along its trail of devastation over an area of thousands of square kilometres.Packing winds over 220km an hour, the fierce tropical storm roared across the shoreline after it hit landfall at the Khulna-Barisal coast at 7:30pm that day, cutting off all communications and utility services across the country.The cyclone left its mark of devastation on 133 upazilas, 962 unions, affecting 31.44 lakh population of about 8.87 lakh families. The storm killed 2.42 lakh livestock and completely destroyed crops on 23,122-acre land including six lakh metric tons of Aman. According to the estimate, 2.73 lakhs houses were totally flattened, with 58km roads totally destroyed and another 1,363km damaged Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Mohammad Arif Ali, Rainy Days - taken in Lahore, 2008 Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Arif Mahmood, Hanuman temple at soldier bazaar Karachi Photograph: guardian.co.uk