"let me tell you a secret"
That’s what this fish seemed to be telling the snake. I don’t know what they spoke but the very next moment the snake quickly darted away and the fish dived underwater.
That’s what this fish seemed to be telling the snake. I don’t know what they spoke but the very next moment the snake quickly darted away and the fish dived underwater.
bottoms-up! Originally uploaded by common man. A duck diving underwater gave a lot of entertainment to a group of excited scout and guide kids watching it from on top (in Lalbagh this morning)!
a morning in lalbagh Originally uploaded by common man. The beginnings of the lotus are in the slime of the depths. Its development and blossoming are in response to the light of the sun. The lotus symbolizes the divine possibilities of human nature. – The Dhammapada (edited by S. Radhakrishnan)
Very unexpectedly, I ended up teaching a couple of neighborhood kids how to paint. Here are some of the ideas. Assumed that there is already an initial outline picture on the paper which is to be filled in… only the tip of the paintbrush should be dipped in paint, not the entire brush. first paint…
There was this small tree in a corner of our garden… We even had a swing hanging from one its branches at one time… I used to climb on its branches and it was really nice to sit up there. This same flower that I saw recently reminds me of those days. And also a…
A discussion thread on art and learning… of course there’s also a certain amount of science of human nature involved – whether a person can learn to something (in this case, draw) very well irrespective of whether he has talent or not.
Recently I was watching Bombay, a top class movie (directed by Mani Ratnam) based on the communal riots in Mumbai after the shameful Babri Masjid demolition, a dark scar in our nation’s history. The year 1995 when this movie was released was a nice era when though I was in engineering college, we school friends…
Its almost as if they weren’t aware of each other’s presence. And when they finally realize….they scoot! So its not just humans who day dream 🙂
yeah Vijay you’re on the dot! What happened was that the snake moved almost into the fish’s mouth and then suddenly they realised that each other wasn’t whatever they’d assumed to be 🙂