Do me a favor, let's play Holi

It is time to welcome Spring. There is happiness in the ambience and the atmosphere  is all colorful. Everybody has already started to bounce off the walls and prepare for Holi. After all, it is one of the most awaited festivals and people are all set to  fling themselves into the celebration mood.  The festival of colors not only encourages the feeling of brotherhood and peace among all but also sparks  the spirit of enthusiasm and energy. The people raise the toast to the occasion in several different ways. From the traditional, custom-based ceremony of playing with colors, to the modern bhaang-lassi and sometimes alcohol trance in the urban cities, the essence of this festival has changed with time.

Mehendi ki Raat

Mehndi

A colour illustrating love, a fragrance to blossom upcoming life, a celebration depicting immense happiness and a trust to tie a knot of completeness...

Indian weddings are never accomplished without this prodigiously lavishing ceremony. Oodles of laughter shared with this ritual accompanied with *shudh desi* music. It gives a feeling of endurance, commitment, loyalty and a step forward to experience a soothing emotion.

Voices of a Painter

 

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced. “

-          Vincent Van Gogh.

My first introduction to this world was Monet’s  ‘Water Lilies’ sitting elegantly in a frame of the movie ‘Titanic’. Few moons later, it had struck me, with all its radiance, hence sparking a light to the quest to hear more than I could have ever seen in the gamut.