For an art which depicts the daily lives of a tribal community, it is natural that it should depict some festivals that they celebrate, too. This painting depicts the villagers celebrating the Hindu festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. I hope you like it. Warli: Ganesh Chaturthi This painting style has recently become quite popular around the […]
Mr Dexter – a harmless old man who lives by himself. After an accident, he is forced to seek shelter at a house that seems very like his. And there, they experience something very different.
Out of small villages of the Warli community where the people still live in mud huts and cook their food over wood fires comes an art that looks simple at first glance, but which actually contains whole stories about the lives of its artists.
I am not much of a poet, but one fine day I decided to try my mind at it. I could not come up with anything heart-rending or sentimental or even thoughtful. What I did come up with was a story fit for kids who love fairy-tales. So I decided to just turn that into
Shoumyo loved the world and the world loved him back. He was a philanthropist in his own way. The big firms donate a lot of money to charity, but what they miss out on is the sheer joy of seeing the smiles on people’s faces whom you have actually helped. Shoumyo, though, was not deprived of this. Replacing the piece of toffee which a beggar boy had just dropped on the ground was probably as far as his means would allow him. But the true gratitude which he received in return, not even all the world’s money could have bought him. He had no vices, but there was one thing seriously wrong about him. He believed and he trusted. He believed whatever people said to him and trusted everyone he saw. That was his biggest fault.
This again is an assignment from my art class. The classes were still online. Our teacher had asked us to paint any pair of footwear we could lay our hands on, and I chose this.
I had tennis classes on all those days. Still, I did not feel like taking even my chemistry exams very seriously…
