It’s embarrassing to admit this but until recently, my understanding of Art was incomplete. I have always believed that Art is a marriage of ideas & imagination and appreciating art involved ‘seeing’ the ideas & imagination put in by the artist. If you didn’t get it, then maybe this form of art wasn’t for you … Read more
As a young boy, I had the privilege of listening to a lot of stories from my grandmother. There were a couple of stories that stood out for me, for the simple reason that I listened them the most.
One was the story of Chandrahasa. The special liking to this story wasn’t coz it was my namesake but for a fact that it had all the amazing ingredients that make a great period story. I do have to give the story credit as it gave me a lot of ideas and concepts that slowly built into my persona.
In the past year there have been a couple of incidents that happened that I wanted to write about but was unable to. Sometimes I never had the words, sometimes I was just plain lazy to put down my thoughts. The following two are such incidents. Incidentally they involve doing something sweet (one for and one by me).
It was the day before the show that the feeling truly hit me. I was standing in the center of the stage and suddenly there was this overwhelming feeling of being drowned, it felt like my lungs were searching for that extra bit of air to save my life. In the midst of all the commotion and the running around, for the first time I knew what all of this meant…