Dancing on the Edge
I’d gladly live inside a box of paints if I could. Spend my days on a squishy sofa of phthalo turquoise and the nights curling up in the warm crevices of a sunset orange. Might sound a tad unrealistic, but...
Category: Art
Majuli Island, Assam – Where Art is Worship
An illustrated map I made to help visitors orient themselves on this many-splendored island. Seemed fitting to pay an artistic tribute to such an artistic island. Distances mentioned are from Garamur Junction as the start point. Rented cycles from Majuli...
Slow Travel in 2019
If I had to pick one travel resolution for 2019 it would be to travel s-l-o-w and slower than ever. And in the time-honoured tradition of new year resolutions, I did break it before the first week was up....
Santa Caterina of the Dancing Rock, Italy
A Picturesque Corner of Italy’s Lake District Painted from a moment I captured on Lake Maggiore two years ago on a two-month trip in northern Italy. One of the most interesting places I’ve ever been. Off the standard tourist circuit and...
Forgotten Slices of History
A visit to an ancient palace near Dhar, a town in Madhya Pradesh (Central India) inspired me enough to capture the moment in paint. Walking under the palace’s bat-occupied arches, it felt strange yet accurate to imagine its past as...
Between Poses & Poems – What Yoga & Poetry Have in Common
I’ve been saved by Poems and Poses more times than I could count. But enough times to sense a few commonalities between the two despite their seeming disparateness. Like two cousins who are chalk and cheese at first glance but...
When Music is the Muse
Music was her drug of choice. Loud enough to extinguish the darkness and layered enough to lose and find herself in over and over again. No matter what life threw at her, another world was always another song away....
Somewhere under the Blue Sky
Exactly 13 years since I painted this. An oil pastel re-creation of an oil painting by an artist called C Loft, known for his Mediterranean seascapes. A raw beginner at age 19, all I had for reference was a postcard-sized greeting...
A waterfall in Mussoorie
What’s with me and waterfalls? I wish I knew. Maybe it’s that driven energy they all exude, or their unstoppable exuberance, or just the way they roar constantly. Exploring Mussoorie many years ago, I chanced upon this secluded waterfall,...
Thirst World Countries
A pencil & watercolour painting from 2008, part of a series of paintings ‘Timeless Waters to Waterless Times’ I made on the subject of the global water crisis. An issue that has only grown more urgent as the years have...
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