Category Archives: Learning

Sketch studies

Doing a sketch study is a nice way to spend a few hours, seeping in the energies and vibrations of landscapes, buildings, works of art.   Some of my sketches hang in the houses of my friends. Hyde Park London … Continue reading →

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Time to pass it on

Last November I sat with Sagar through his vocal music class. He is now preparing to sing “Pucho Na Kaise Meine Rain Bitaaye” Do not ask me how I spent the night.. for a performance to be held in April … Continue reading →

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Reading clubs again

Reading Groups in Tripoli..He beautifully wrote of the two slogans which the Khmer Rouge used –
“Power flows through the barrel of the gun”…and ‘You cannot make omellettes without breaking eggs’
What he saw in Cambodia, he had read in Calcutta, in the early seventies.Maoist rhetoric.
As one old Bengali friend, a sensitive human being, a keen photographer and teacher
-Tirtha Das Gupta (TDG) once told me, sipping tea in the School of Fototechnik at Bhogal Delhi,
“The Naxalite movement put the people’s movements back by decades” Continue reading →

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