First Oil Painting!
Of all things on a buy and sell facebook page, I came across an oil painting class being offered by a lady within stone’s throw from my place. And so …
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Secret Superstar.. Simply Superb!
We watched the movie Secret Superstar last week, and I have been monitoring its box office collections since then (something I never do) because I so want it to succeed! …
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A Moving Experience
Today it is exactly one month since we moved into our new home. We are far from done in terms of all the setting up and settling in activities, but …
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To Potential Sarahah Users
My non-anonymous constructive message to anyone considering using Sarahah: You are wonderful. And you have flaws. You probably have an accurate enough understanding of both aspects yourself. If you really …
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Independence and Freedom
There are many notions mixed up in my head Because the reality of the world is of many mixed notions Notions.. emotions.. solutions? I remember my grandmother’s stories Relating the …
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Tenderness
Know that feeling, when in the middle of a busy day, you come across a profound saying? Or moving art..? or a picture of your childhood? Or a child’s laughter?
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Trust the Path
We cannot typically know the destination, but we can usually if not always, see the path. Do you trust the path? If one is anxious, frustrated, depressed, impatient- it is …
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Goodbyes
A colleague I had been working with for past few years, went into retirement today. We had had the ‘event’ with the team to mark the transition, and yet when …
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Croatia Once More (II): Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik was the second island of our trip, and also our longest stay of all. Dubrovnik is among the most (if not the most) popular tourist destinations in Croatia, its …
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The First Pharaoh of Egypt
This book made me really think about my reading choices. It is almost 500 pages long, and I realized that if I had more time, I would not have read …
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Drowning
Is it better to drown, not knowing that you are drowning? Or better to drown, knowing full well your fate? Why does there have to be drowning at all, you …
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Croatia Once More (I): Split & Hvar
Two years back, we had planned a trip through Amsterdam and Croatia with my parents, and they were at the last moment unable to make it due to some extenuating circumstances. …
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Abstract
An abstract water-colour suddenly and rapidly emerges at the end of several long weeks, and the start of a long weekend. I wonder if I should give it a name, …
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The Reading Rebellion
We all have fantasies. And I believe if we take them not just on face-value, but identify the underlying need that they indicate, we learn much about us and how …
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Looking in the Closet
I stumbled across a piece on how Frida Kahlo’s closet was opened a good 50 years after her death to unlock insights into her personality and story. By no means …
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Weekend Art: Capturing Colmar
I have had a fascination for some years now, with the fairytale French town of Colmar. And about time I decided to paint it..
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Salad and Cake
They say there was never a poet who could bear the toothache in silence. The poet feels compelled to write about it. Well the threshold for what moves self-proclaimed poets …
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Of Boxes and Boundaries
I sat down pensively, as the teacher set before me again..some colours, and as well a canvas, and on it were drawn neat boxes. I spent the better part of …
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Splendid Seville!
I am not much a bucket-list traveler. But in the little “If I had to have a bucket list, what would I put on it” list, Seville had been high …
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The Inheritance of Loss
Through its various characters, relationships and plots, The Inheritance of Loss explores one thing- the power dynamics inherent in societies defined by inequality- whether the inequality between the colonizer and …
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To be an Artist
What does it mean to be an artist? Neither does a painting nor a poem nor a dance make you an artist Nor does an absence of any prove that …
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Watercolour: Olden Days
This one was made relatively quickly.. the weekend before. Something about olden days, and unadulterated dawns..of vast distances and leisurely pace..
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Watercolour: Crossing the Bridge
This weekend saw another Sunday swept up by brush-strokes. As always, I am supremely proud of my painting, which I am calling..well, ‘crossing the bridge’.
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A Water-colour Sunday
Unplanned, spontaneous, consuming. That’s how I find I like art best. And that’s how I found it this fine Sunday, when I spontaneously picked up my paints and brush in …
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