CY Twombly-canvas sold at record price I always found abstract art fuzzy until… “I work in waves, because I’m impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn’t have taken before” http://- Cy Twombly C Y Twombly’s tranquil power of […]
2 Water is considered a fundamental of five world elements associated with creation, purification, life sustaining To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.” –Ben Shahn https://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/blog/11090/38-quotes-on-abstraction/ Water, Toyam or Apah in sanskrit, is considered a fundamental […]
Breaking Language Barrier: Childhood in Vernacular Return me my days of Rain and Paper Boats-The Home we carry 1 video of the podcast 2 body 3 2 pullquotes Table of Content ये दौलत भी लेलो ये शोहरत भी लेलोभले छीन लो मुझसे मेरी जवानीमगर मुझको लौटा दो बचपन का सावनवो काग़ज़ की कश्ती वो बारिश […]
Ellora Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site A Masterpiece in human creative genius Ellora Caves, an UNESCO World Heritage site is a unique artistic achievement, a masterpiece of human creative genius.If one considers only the work of excavating the rock, a monument such as the Kailasa Temple is a technological exploit without equal. The Caves […]
2 Oranges-Psychology, Physiology and a Poem My spiky head dipped in orange bower This poem deals with my experience of bringing an orange bonsai home and its impact on my mood swings. As someone suffering from autoimmune conditions which are associated with serious debilitation and restrictions orange as plant, colour has come to my rescue […]
Publishing books in this Time and Age Poetry writing comes full circle All pursuits of creation follow a pattern— to witness that seed of thought growing roots, spreading its branches and lending nature with its desired denouement to be savoured by all. When a gardener with his soiled hands pushes a seed inside the soil, […]
Healing using Japanese concept of Yutori Conversation about writing, life, spoken words Introducing the 1st episode of Elysian Conversations with my friends and writers Priyanka Srivastava, joining me from Singapore and Somsubhra Banerjee from Bengaluru, where we spoke about our writing life, how writing came to us as healing and also reciting one of our […]
Leila trampled down the creaky wooden stairs, thudding sound echoing through the meekly ventilated basement. Ransacking the place, curtaining through cobwebs, jumping over a few broken throw-aways her eyes located it–the table Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”― Rhett Butler Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell Leila trampled down the creaky wooden stairs, thudding sound echoing through the meekly […]
Flowers are Nature’s Poetry Delving into the Science of Art Flowers are nature’s poetry. As much as I enjoy nurturing greens around me,I love to photograph them when they peep from any corner of the world.In this article I share some of the exotic blooms which I photographed overs years and intend to dwell not […]
Imagining Mars through Poetic Storytelling Alternate curriculum on Mars This article aims at detailing the One-Time Project of creating an alternate curriculum for introducing the Study of Mars from classes I – IX, undertaken in collaboration with WallOBook ( A not-for-profit wing working with education for kids both on the margin and well endowed) and […]
