Midweek musings – 21st Aug Working this afternoon I am reminded of a more gentle time when I was younger and full of hope. I still have hope but am losing it fast! So much has changed… I happened to put on Coke Studio on You Tube to have some background music to painting and […]
An old metal trunk rusted in parts. Put together in a local shop in some distant recesses of this land. Not with finesse but with purpose. Strong. So it can get the job done. To transport someone’s worldly goods across the country as he guards this great nations borders. That is the history this trunk carries. […]
I am delighted to share with you all that my line of up-cycled and painted furniture will now be available at The Purple Turtle store here in Indira Nagar, Bangalore, India. So why am I reworking old pieces – ‘My work is about connections. And the idea of using something already existing and infusing it […]
Connections. That is what life is about. How we connect and embrace the people in our lives… On 24th Sep 2012 I lost my paternal grandmother (Aaji) to a heart attack. It was sudden and unexpected. And heartbreaking to say the least. I went home to Indore for her last rites and found my life […]
Over the last year most posts I have written have said something along the lines of – ‘this last year has been hard, trying, blah blah’- and indeed it is true. Truer still is that the last two weeks have been crazy. I have swung from one end of the emotional spectrum to the complete […]
Over the last few years I have had the pleasure, indeed honour, to talk about Sikhism at the Bangalore Walks- Living Faiths of India Tour. And no talk on Sikhism would be complete, without talking about Anandpur Sahib. On 26th May 2012, as a part of my trip tracing my roots, I took my children to […]
I am the product of a mixed marriage. My father is a Maharashtrian Brahmin and my mother, a Jat Sikh. So I have two halves of me, that are always warring with each other to come out. When I am in Pune or Indore, you won’t mistake me for anything but a Marathi mulgi (girl). […]
I was cleaning out some old papers this afternoon. And I stumbled across some sketches and doodles that I did almost 20 years ago!! One such sketch is this one of my husband, Supreet. It’s pretty good even if I say so myself 🙂 I should get back to pure drawing and sketching. It’s been […]
These are pictures of my very first exhibition, held at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi in 1994. I had asked for exhibition dates at their administrative office and was told that there was a two year waiting period. Daunted I said OK, filled the forms and went home. I got a call two days […]
As I mentioned in my post here I am currently working on a collection to benefit the stray dog. I am happy to say it is well underway and I am working on it quite furiously. More on that in the next few posts. For right now many of you have written in to ask […]