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‘yesterday was dramatic, today is ok.’

Diti Kotecha’s photoblog is definitely worth a visit. Or several long trips.

‘Ways of Seeing’

Samyuktha PC pays a tribute to Lala Deen Dayal who ‘used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India’:
Lala Deen Dayal (1844-1905) used his lens to show us the “ways of seeing” back in Colonial India, of the British and the nationalist. This was time before automatic cameras, and definitely [...]

Art Futures Kolkata

Rama, fellow Blogbhartian, has started a new art blog, Art Futures Kolkata, with this admirable goal: Making Art Accessible, Relating Art to Community.
In the latest post, Rama questions the been-there, seen-that smugness of some Kolkatans:
Do they visit other painting or scuplture exhibitions of local or Indian artists in galleries or museums in Calcutta or elsewhere [...]

Women’s Day

On women’s day Shubhangi recounts an evening with India’s two prominent ladies Kishori Amonkar and Vijaya Mehta.
They talked of defining moments when they felt a oneness with their art and which left lasting impressions on their lives. Kishori, when she sung the Raag Baageshari once as a young girl had the experience which changed her [...]

Your 30-second blogger introduction

Sriks6711 has loads of funny/satirical cartoons on his blog. Here is how James Bond would introduce himself if he had a blog:

Very entertaining! Do read the rest of the posts!

Those Drawings!

Bindu shares her love for Asterix and Obelix and her love for drawing.Head over to see more of her pictures.

Asterix and Obelix

Bindu rediscovers them:
Now as we drove over to the public library after finding these books on the catalog online, we could remember exactly how exciting this process of discovering a stash of books used to be when we were young! Nothing has changed, and it’s been almost 25 years!

tHe pluM tRee

An eye-catching illustration for a children’s book by Priya, another interesting artist, who blogs here.

Mallika’s blog

Go check a five year old’s creativity at this blog.

Art in everything

Archana, as a commenter on her blog says, ‘can’t help see art in everything around her’. Check everyday things turn into great pictures on her blog.

Nilofer Suleman’s blog

Nilofer Suleman is a Bangalore based visual artist.
She paints:
with her eyes.
with her hands.
with her soul..
She is inspired by:
colour.
old film reels.
emotion.
Those lines are from the sidebar of this great blog.

Kicking up a row

More updates on the One State Solution Week 2008, White Ribbon Campaign’s IRC tête-à-têtes continue and with more gusto than ever before!
Join them and some entirely new host characters at their room on the internet relay chat channel, IRC, at the Dalnet Servers.

Is it just me…

… or does everyone else notice the change in Delhi? Asks Munna:

Hat tip: Mekhala

The wise man in us all

Saad Akhtar runs a very interesting and funny set of web comics, themed around India. This is among the latest ones:

Check the rest of the archives out… you’ll have your daily dose of smiles!

The Kitchen Art

Unmesh Dasthakhir has posted a very creative art work into his photoblog. As one of the commenters mentioned there it is more like an installation art. Check it out and some other works from his photoblog.

Art and responsibility

What are our contemporary artists doing? Johny ML answers his own question- they ‘refuse to see the darkness as the light is so strong and the light, for the time being looks like eternal’:
In Orissa, Christian missionaries and those poor people who just for food and education converted to Christianity are burnt down and brutally [...]

‘Communal comics’

Do we have ‘communal comic books’? An article in Tehelka takes Adnan back to his own childhood favourites:
Firstly, I did read a few Amar Chitra Katha comics in my childhood. And I have absolutely no problem with a publisher only printing comics on Hindu culture, as I grew up as much on Khilauna (Urdu) and [...]

Cinema and activism

Nitesh Rohit writes about cinema, art and activism.
It is a constant struggle between truth and deceit, the boundaries are so thin that one can easily slip into the other territory, that is the reason giants of the art form are slowly becoming a rare species, since the “ struggle” to pull together each day of [...]

‘World of an Indian Cartoonist’

That’s Mid Day’s Graphics Editor Satish Acharya’s blog. The sidebar says:’I love to blog here because it connects me with the loads of non-midday readers too and helps me to get some desperate feedback. I love those comments, they help my cartoons shape up better’. The cartoons on the blog are very, very [...]

The Hand That Wields the Pen

[ This is Essay No. 30 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
The Hand That Wields the Pen
By Anindita Sengupta
——-
Civilisations are judged and remembered not by their most successful businessmen but by the art they leave behind.
~ Kwame Kwei-Armah
That art is important for a civilization is undeniable. That it oils its rusty [...]

Blog Cartoons

Bellur has a series of about 22 (and counting) hilarious cartoons on blogs, blogging and bloggers up on his blog. Don’t miss them!

Paan Khaye Saiyan Hamaro

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 [...]

Sketching ‘rebelliously’

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’s Art

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.

Sportato!

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.


Hearing the voices

Did you know that 87% of all links that Blogbharti linked to in it's first year were new? Did you know that in the 2,376 posts we did, we provided you with 3,087 links individual links excluding self-links and links to technorati and del.icio.us? Read more here.

 

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