I chose Andal Kalyanam as a subject for this sketch in an attempt to depict what I understood from Andal’s upadesam (teachings) through her Tiruppavai, as she illuminates that the “parai” mentioned in Tiruppavai is both a means and the end, in context of complete Saranagathy. For me, as I put my pencil on a […]
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As we celebrate the Thanksgiving Day in USA today I would like to share a recent experience I had, watching Native American dancers perform the Native Hoop Dance at the Intermountain Hoop Dance Competition this Fall at the Red Butte Garden Amphitheater. In Native American Culture, “The hoop is symbolic of ”the never-ending circle of
Native American Hoop – Circle of Life & Connection! Happy Thanksgiving !! Read More »
November 14th is celebrated as Children’s Day in India, in honor of the first prime minister of Independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who’s birthday falls on this day. Schools throughout India have various forms of celebration commemorating children of all ages. This water-color painting of Pt. Nehru, which I painted a long time ago, recently
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An oil painting of Venice, I painted a few years back and titled it Reflections on water. A ‘floating city’ with its meandering waterways and the gondolas, Venice has captivated my imagination since I was a child. I first learnt about Venice, about a city built on water, in my geography class. Venice and its
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I dedicate this post to Mrs. Edward, the artist who introduced me to oil painting decades back. This painting is my first oil painting, “Nativity scene” and in size my biggest too, about six feet by six feet. A little about Mrs. Edward, or Edward aunty, as we, the neighborhood kids, called her fondly. She
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This is one of my paintings, from a series of paintings I’d done one summer while in college. A dear friend of mine to whom I’d given this painting, happened to mention it in a conversation recently while we were reminiscing about something-else, going down the memory-lane.Reflecting on this image and what prompted me to
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As we turn our clocks back today for Daylight saving time in most parts of the United States, I got to thinking about another kind of seasonal natural rhythm. That of plants keeping their ‘promise to bloom’ after long cold winter months, and the migratory birds keeping their ‘promise to return’ every spring in the
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“Its a breath of fresh air”, an idiom we often use to describe an invigorating experience was exactly what those of us living in the Wasatch front of Utah felt today, as we celebrate Earth Day 2022. It was as if Mother Earth was gracing us with kindness, washing away the dust and smog with
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Persevere, is the word which resonates as we move into another year after a tumultuous couple of years with covid19 pandemic upending our lives. As we’ve endured the effects of the covid19 pandemic collectively for the last two years, its hard to fathom we are not yet fully out of the woods. We embarked into
Happy New Year, 2022 Echoes – Persevere ! Read More »
Embarking into a new year and a new decade, treading forward into 2021, ‘Hope’ is the word that stands out !! After an unprecedented year in 2020 with the covid19 pandemic crippling the entire planet, families and friends isolated from each other, loss of lives, and pandemic induced economic and social distress, loss of normal
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