Chitra Santhe 2012

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January 29, 2012. Chitra Santhe, 2012. Slice of pavement No.160. A huge 'thank you' goes out to all the kindred folk who bought a print and to those who took the time to stop, look and voice their appreciation.

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December 7, 2011 | 12:21 PM

What my Tumblr archive looks like at the moment.

Hello.

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Hello!
I've been gone awhile (deadlines, travel, pottery) but I'm back.
Interesting times ahead I think.

:)

Chitra Santhe 2011

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January 30, 2011. Chitra Santhe, 2011. Stall (Slice of pavement?) No. 567.
Me, Meghana, Gayathri, Rohini, Ramya & Ashwin.

14 kindred folks who bought my work and a lot more who stopped
to say how much they liked it. 18 framed illustrations sold.

All in all, a pretty good day.

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New Moon / Full Moon / Twilight

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This is what I wake up to in the morning.

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Merry Merry

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Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

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More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.*

R.Krishnamurthy (1927-2010)

This is my paternal grandfather.

Dad thinks this picture was taken around 1947 when Thatha was simultaneously studying and working in Calcutta. I think he was already married to my grandmother at the time.

He passed away this Tuesday, on 21st December 2010, just 3 months after Amamma left us.
She was 79, he was 83. They would have celebrated their 63rd marriage anniversary next year.

Rest in peace Thatha.
Wherever you are, I hope you're with Amamma. And I hope you're happy.

*The title is a quote by Lord Alfred Tennyson that I've heard Thatha mention often. It's something he truly believed in.

And he dreamed...

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The Light Fantastic*

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(*Name of the second book in the Discworld series of books, written by Terry Pratchett.)

Cocolin!

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Spotted this chocolate bar on a trip to the supermarket a couple of days ago and
brought it home with me solely for its packaging.

I like the whimsical wrapper, but the taste? Not so much.
Kinda tasted like what I imagine 'fake' chocolate might taste like! Not good!

Wall-E

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Remembrance.

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This one's for you, Ammama. Wherever you are, I hope you're happy.

Painted wooden eggs and a pinecone souvenir.

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Painted wooden eggs from various handicraft exhibitions and a pinecone souvenir from a trip to Kodaikanal.

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"Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21... Here, each term is the sum of the previous two terms. The phenomenon is well known and called phyllotaxis. Many are the efforts of biologists to understand why pinecones, sunflowers, and many other plants exhibit this remarkable pattern. Organisms do the strangest things, but all these odd things need not reflect selection or historical accident. Some of the best efforts to understand phyllotaxis appeal to a form of self-organization. Paul Green, at Stanford, has argued persuasively that the Fibonacci series is just what one would expects as the simplest self-repeating pattern that can be generated by the particular growth processes in the growing tips of the tissues that form sunflowers, pinecones, and so forth. Like a snowflake and its sixfold symmetry, the pinecone and its phyllotaxis may be part of order for free"

~ Stuart Kauffman (At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity)

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Sometimes, just looking at him sleep makes me want to curl up and take a nap.

Happy Diwali!

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It's the same illustration as last year, but with a few modifications to the dress, hair and background.
Here's wishing you a Happy Diwali & a prosperous New Year.

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Excuse me while I kiss the sky.*

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(*Quote by Jimi Hendrix)