this is something i made... the first one speaks for itself while the other distorts in perspective. 

                  ~my own gulmohar~

For one human being to love another

that is the most difficult of all our tasks,

the ultimate, the last test of 

proof, the work for which all 

other work is but preparation.

- rainer maria rilke

we had a workshop and had to portray the meaning of this in an abstract way playing with colours and textures. my group consisted of jiten, jeremy and me.

EMEMBER me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

- Christina Rossetti

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs
And the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls

- A thousand splendid suns

there was a red car,

with three men in it... 

the one wearing 

the white polo-neck sweater,

the yellow sun-hat and 

the black seat-belt...

was driving it!!

For you, a thousand times over


- the kite runner

i want us to be silent spectators...
feeding off each others peace.

building walls where only we exist
in a rose-tinted universe
where its you, me and the colourful bougainvilleas

us... creatures floating amidst the whistling zephyr....

~wild in the woods~

i discovered a set of blow pens!!... and this is what i did :)...

i dunno what it looks like and as i tried variations and explored the medium this is what i came up with... 

to me it looks like a bouquet of flowers..

what does it looks like to u?

pickled women - live quietly in giant vinegar bottles of their own making... her existence is her reason.

- thousands of vinegar bottles lined up on earth, as far as the eye could see -

there were fire crackers in the air!!..

i felt the excitement in my stomach

today was a funny beginning... i was in an auto and we stopped at the traffic signal.. next to us stood a cycler, who seemed to have thirteen years of life behind him.. he was a slum kid by the look of it and stood at the at the very end of the road whereby spilling onto the other side. the the traffic continued spewing and suddenly my auto driver screamed at the boy to get into our side and to try not getting killed by the oncoming buses. 

the boy shifted and my auto guy calmed down..

as we neared the green light another boy of eight came n took the older boys place at the end of the road. the boy of eight seemed to belong to a middle class family.

our lane started moving and the boy of thirteen assisted and helped maneuver the boy of eight to the right where they we both headed. all this while my auto guy kept a watch to make sure they both reached the right lane safely before starting off on our journey forward..

i saw this and was amazed... humanity still throbs in our society and somewhere it is us, the have's who have lost it, not those who live by it..

my auto rides are too short

my hair s too long

they're not in tandem anymore..

i miss my 30 rupees blow-dries!!