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Art represents an artist's relationship with life and everything that is part of it - relation, ritual, livelihood, family, relationships, death..... It is in this context alone that the true essence of Warli paintings can be appreciated. The paintings are executed inside the hut. Walls are first smeared with cowdung. Red mud is then applied to provide the base texture. Pointed bamboo twigs and thin rice paste are used to draw ...
Here's a remarkable representation by two young enthusiasts of the city of Bombay, the sprawling urban quagmire milling with 17 million. The 200-Page book is a veritable visual delight, strewn as it is with photographs by Sunil Vaidyanathan that provide us a vivid insight into the splendour that has, alas, died with the name Bombay. The city was renamed 'Mumbai' by the previous Shiv-Sena-BJP government that ruled between 1994 and 1999. Indeed, this rechristening ...
This is a pictorial history of how an ancient cluster of islands that were sparsely inhabited by indigenous people of Dravidian stock became, through the centuries, the commercial hub of the world’s second most populous city. Bombay is now Mumbai and it has metamorphosed from a conglomeration of seven islands to a megapolis. If you glance through Sunil Vaidyanathan’s book “The Heritage Buildings of Bombay†Mumbai stares you in the face with its changing ...
This book presents two aspects of an architectural project. The study of lifestyle, culture, arts and architecture of Kutch - the colorful western region of India and the architectural design and planning of new housing evolved and built in South Kutch from the study and analysis of the region. It lavishly presents the entire project with more than 300 paintings, drawings and sketches. The new housing is an interesting reinterpretation of the climate living and ...
Ganesha is the most-loved god of India. He is a friendly god, who is much loved and venerated by the common man. Akin to the common man, he is a god with a sense of humour. He also has a sweet tooth and has a weakness for “Modakasâ€. He has chosen for this mount, the humble and ubiquitous rat. The common man has great faith in Ganesh. Whenever he is in trouble, he visits his temple and propitiates, in the hope that, Ganesha will relieve him of his distress. ...
Till this date, the tradition of painted folk epics is as much alive in Rajasthan. The painters paint a series of events with context to the epic in a proper sequence on canvas, in a traditional style with local colors. They are sung by the ‘Bhopas’, wandering musicians who play at fairs and festivals to the accompaniment of the Janter, a two gourd instrument joined by a bamboo rod. These ‘Bhopas’ carry the ‘Phad’ from village to village for epic ...
In the common perception, faith and reason or religion and science are mutually exclusive, if not actually contradictory. But it is also commonly felt that the greatest challenge before mankind is how to bring about a happy marriage between the two - both being part and parcel of man's eternal search for the truth. The inherent conflict between faith and reason is more actually felt in the Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition of historical ...
Urban - Middle class India - in the new millennium. Ten short stories, told simply, with economy and brevity, in the style of classical writers in the mould of R.K. Narayan and Premchand. Stories of ordinary people you will recognize and identify with, People you almost know. Ten casts of characters, ten life situations with the common thread that the characters in each setting are ranged in seriously conflicting positions against one another. Look again and you ...
What this unique book brings to you? Easy to draw motifs of Shubhankers, of Ganpati, Sun, Charan, Swastik. Complete section on “mandanaâ€, “warli patterns†& religious wall motifs made on various festivals. Sections on Maharastrian-Galicha & Tipka Rangoli South Indian rangoli, and Bengali alpana. Unique rangoli motifs inspired from Kashmiri embroidery, lacknawi – patch work & Gujrati-mirror work. Loads of freehand, easy to make motifs in all ...
The word Om is the seven spheres of existence: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether, Intelligence and Consciousness. That eternal Om, the creative principle of light manifesting through the sun which bestone wisdom, bliss and immortality, that quintessence of earth, atmosphere and heaven, we meditate upon. May it lead us to illumination and energize our consciousness!
Kamal’s poetry reflects multiple hues of emotions and values like the Surabhi, the corona of the Sun. His poems cover wide ranging internal and external reflections of mind with persons and events in life and Nature. So light, smooth and lucid in flow of presentation. So subtle in either invoking or implying some inferences from simple life experience that would otherwise be so abstract in their form.