Nayan has discovered the newer version of the Ramayana, set in 3392 A.D. and has his opinions:
I wonder what Swami Valmiki thought while writing down this legend. I pray to God to give his soul peace, I am quite sure he would have not been happy to see Rama and Dashratha talking in fundax English, [...]
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Old Gangajal in a new bottle
Published by May 3rd, 2008 in Art, Books, Culture, Fiction, India and Religion. 0 CommentsA National Museum of History and Culture of Dalits
Published by April 30th, 2008 in Art, Culture, Dalit, History and Human Rights. 0 CommentsAniruddha Kulkarni says India needs to build a museum of Dalit history and culture:
But I do think some psychological displacement is at work when a magnificent Holocaust Memorial Museum, in which the criminals are not Americans, precedes a Washington institution of equivalent stature dedicated to the saga of national violence that is slavery and segregation…[...] [...]
Praveen at the NeoAlchemist has a set of lovely cartoons that make you ponder as well as laugh. Go take a look!
Vidya pens an obituary to an auto driver, Venkatacalam, who died recently. She remembers a movie that he saw with her family.
Appreciation of art is fine as long as you have the resources to take care of your daily bread! And in the final scene just before Serugalattur Sama falls at the feet of the [...]
‘Saala ek machhar aadmi ko hijra bana deta hai’
Published by March 23rd, 2008 in Art, Books, Democracy, Feminism, Government, Human Rights, Literature, Patriarchy, Personal, Politics, Religion, Secularism, South Asia and public space. 2 CommentsThat line from a Nana Patekar film, says, Aman Kumar, captures his ‘rage and frustration’ over the Taslima Nasreen episode:
So has mine! Sadly, I no longer consider India a secular country after watching and analyzing the political developments in last 15-20 years. Right from Shah Bano case to Babri demolition, and from Gujrat massacre to [...]
Abrams Toons is a nice cartoon blog that deals with the current affairs. Check it out.
Reality Shows
Published by February 29th, 2008 in Art, Business, Cinema, Culture, Media, Music, Personal, Society, Spotlight Series and Theatre. 1 Comment[ This is Essay # 21 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Reality Shows
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Pradip Somasundaran
People have started referring to me as the first reality show winner since the success of reality shows here in Kerala. Well in a way that’s true as there was more reality to the program that I won [...]
Buddha, the Taliban and Pakistan
Published by February 15th, 2008 in Art, History, India, Religion, South Asia and Spotlight Series. 7 Comments[ This is Essay # !5 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
Buddha, the Taliban and Pakistan
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Raza Rumi
I have been working on this composition for quite a while. I was angered, rather revolted by what the Taliban were doing in the pristine Swat valley that has recently undergone full scale war. What has [...]
Kamalamba
Published by February 13th, 2008 in Art, Caste, Culture, Feminism, Music, Patriarchy, Society and Women. 0 CommentsVidya tells a story and has a few thoughts on caste and gender in the classical arts.
One day her father noticed her write namO namO rAghavAya anisham on the walls of her house and singing a lovely sindhubhairavi. He was happy and sad at the same time. He called his wife and said,”Look It is [...]
Bauls
Published by February 12th, 2008 in Art, Culture, History, India, Language, Music and Religion. 1 CommentKalyan sheds some light on the world of the Bauls:
The word ‘Baul’ refers to three terms- betul meaning ‘out of rhythm’, vayu meaning ‘air’ or the inner flow of energy which gives life and harmony to all living beings ; and auliya, a term of Arabic origin, which means ’saint’ or ‘holy man’. This is [...]
Lessons from the Renaissance
Published by January 6th, 2008 in Art, Business, Culture, History, India, Literature, Music, Poetry and Spotlight Series. 0 Comments[This is Essay #12 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for archives.]
Lessons from the Renaissance
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JK
In 1503, the much awaited clash of the titans was to take place in the Salone dei Cinquecento, the imposing chamber of Palazzo Vecchio in Italy. Piero Soderini, an Italian statesman commissioned Leonardo da Vinci to paint Battle [...]
Three guys have come up with a novel idea. And the first BYOA Festival is on 7, 8 & 9 of December 2007 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore.
B.Y.O.A* potentially, an bi-annual event, is aimed at providing a venue/platform for the so called “Unknown Artist”. The event is aimed at providing these [...]
Deo Prakash Chowdhary introduces us to different schools of painting from India. For the starter, he has written about Manjusha and Jadoopatiyan paintings with details on it’s historical and cultural connections. Check it out.
Here is the blog of Kerala Cartoon Academy, that has news and articles on everything related to Cartoons and Cartoonists. Checkout their list of cartoon blogs and websites also.
Mazha Pune-scape.
Published by October 20th, 2007 in Art, Culture, Democracy, Society and public space. 0 CommentsVaartaphalak Photos is a project that tries to locate and study Vaartaphalaks or Street Sign boards in the city of Pune.
This one is at Kumthekar road, Sadashivpeth. And the chronicler translates for us:
‘this is a typical space as defined by a vartaphalak. this message was written a [...]
Deviyani Rao is working on a sculpture:
So far the materials I have decided to use are wire for the main sculpture depicting a form much like the goddesses they show in India. However I wont give the face any distinct features and am planning to keep the eyes closed. Just the feeling of closing my [...]
Deepak I. Shahdadpuri posts an article by Steven Henry Madoff that observes that the Indian art world is a ‘disorienting study in contrasts’:
The Indian art world has more than changed. It has exploded. Prices have increased tenfold since 2002. In the last two years alone, they have nearly doubled. Works by India’s top-selling contemporary artists [...]
Bellur has a series of about 22 (and counting) hilarious cartoons on blogs, blogging and bloggers up on his blog. Don’t miss them!
Ujjwala has another wonderful portrait done in her blog. Check it out.
This piece gets its name from an old hindi song called “Paan Khaye Saiyan Hamaro” since it was on my mind when I was painting. There’s been a long tradition of eating Paans ( betel nuts, anis and other mouth fresheners rolled into a [...]
Arvindh has posted a drawing that he has done with his non-dominant left hand. He has a couple of such drawings, that he did with his left hand, in his artlog.
Arvindh has posted his first outdoor painting, a 12X18 inches acrylic on canvas painted at the tree house in Cleveland. I particularly liked that sun light effects.
Sajjiv Balakrishnan is a cartoonist and he has posted some ‘sportive‘ cartoons and caricatures in his blog Sportato. It is mostly the Cricket players, but still a very good work. Check it out.
Balaji S Rajan shares his experience on sketching in the train on his weekend journeys. He has also posted some of his sketches. Re-discovering a long lost hobby can be very exciting.
Most of the times when people see me spreading my sketch book and pencil kit they become inquisitive. It is nice to see them [...]
Ujwala sketches a portrait of her friend Manish using charcoal. A must see and I hope more and more artists explore the options that ‘artlogs’ world presents before them to show case their talents online.
Chandra Mohan was freed today.. ..but
At 3:pm today, police have arrested and carted away two bus loads of students and artists mostly students from MSU and some artists/activists from Bombay.
Several present have been verbally threatened and pushed around.
There is a 100 strong crowd of right wing supporters who have not been arrested.
Zigzackly posted that update [...]
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