Ashram canteen

This is the art of living ashram canteen where they serve organic fruit juice.

Guruji with bangalore university vice chancellor

Today guruji was conferred with an honorary doctorate from the vice chancellor of bangalore university. The award was conferred for the outstanding social service activity that the art of living foundation has been doing to create a violence free and stress free society.

Its raining!

Everyday evening, in the art of living ashram it has become a routine for rain god to pay a visit. Bucket full of rain comes down cooling the hot earth in no time! Guruji had said, water element is not angry, it is just in abundance. Rain always takes me back to best times in my life. To think about people whom i have personified it with, to recollect those days of losing umbrellas after raincoats in school to every positive thing that has happenned in life. I don remember a day, where i have cursed the rain. It charming beyond words and i would like to get now to be with it.

Pradeep sebastian

The one man army. I would call him the idea man. Its in bounty with this Aquarian thinker. The man behind starting Act Now Trust and the driving force behind Aranyam film festival। A prolific yet humble designer who creates magic in every thing that he creates, right from book publishing, web designing using the most latest of technology what designers or even companies in india dare to experiment wit; this man has been my teacher and guide who encouraged me to learn graphic designing. I remember, the day he had said, ' if you know microsoft word, you can learn even photoshop '. And that was in 2006 and now i can fairly do well in most graphic tools. Adventure and camping is his type of blood and travellin with him is sheer craziness. Wildlife is his passion and is walking encyclopedia on wildlife in india. He now runs witness media, an advocacy media agency based in Bangalore. Thats pradeep for you!

Vasundhara award . . Down memory lane

While i was at pradeep's place today, saw the award that act now trust received from kirloskar at pune for our contribution towards environment conservation program through aranyam film festival. Now it has gathered dust. . Do check www. Aranyam.org for details.

Bus travel

I love travelling by bus even if it means sliding and slithering past hundreds of people. The people who travel by bus are the real people of the place. You will get to understand to some extent, even the culture of the place. I love travellin in it as you get to see a glimpse of the society that you live in. If you are in india, i recommend bus travel, no matter how crowded or battered the bus is.

Kashi bhaiya in satsang

Kashi bhaiya talkin about good company and teaching's of buddha.

Events office in ashram

There are just 4 people working in the events department and they take care of every single program that takes place in art of living for more details visit www.artofliving.org

Ashram meditation session

Today ashram is filled with advance course participants from kerala. Thought i will share this in the blog

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Im not alone at being alone
and they lived happily stranded ever after...

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halt here.
i have.
so can you.
dear?
"question mark?"
full stop

not sure about semicolon; not yet sure so,
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Grandmom

drops

Clasping eternity in fractions,
before early sunlight
vapours you into thin air...
to my light, my soul,
my eternal sunshine of a spotful mind
hiding sigh...

Images2 kathakali

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images

imagine if images of you come to you rather that you go seeking for it

wheels

what drove you ahead. pulled me back for a second.
to my childhood.
depicted by 1/250th of a mechanical eye.
Stupid.

roots in bottle

dedicated to all the drinkers in kerala??? 90 crore was the revenue that was collected by the kerala beverages board on 30th and 31st of dec. thats a lot of alcohol!

Lonliness

There are some things in life that are beautiful untouched. Some time it demands you to leave it as it is. sometimes its very symbolic of what human life should be. is it trying to convey a message to me? is it my Muse? is it my teacher? is it my good friend? or my eternal lover? is it a mirror reflecting the universal law of connection? i donno what it means. i felt like touching it. was I in trance when i touched it? did i actually touch it? did i destroy it? did i make a mistake? i hate when questions frame my paragraphs. i think its better left untouched.
touched...

SEASARS PALACE :P

drunken art

Flame of fire.a potential kingdom detroyed

potential kingdom detroyed

a child?

i wish she got education

wondering

Potrait- emotive

naveen thomas

Caesers palace

Ceasers Palace in b/w

The band in colour

Bliss

SOMEONE GET ME A TRIPOD :(( :((.... no photoshop work in this. i have used a orange color light . took white meter reading under normal light and then used some 8 pillows and some bedsheets to act as tripod..

bruised

scooter trails..

back water

does that term exist???? i have no clue

Coromandel Fishers

This design was inspired by the poem written by Sarojini Naidu. i have used 6 different photographs in it (all of which i have taken)

Coromandel Fishers


Rise, brothers, rise; the wakening skies pray to the morning light,
The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn like a child that has cried all night.
Come, let us gather our nets from the shore and set our catamarans free,
To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for we are the kings of the sea!

No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track of the sea gull's call,
The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother, the waves are our comrades all.
What though we toss at the fall of the sun where the hand of the sea-god drives?
He who holds the storm by the hair, will hide in his breast our lives.

Sweet is the shade of the cocoanut glade, and the scent of the mango grove,
And sweet are the sands at the full o' the moon with the sound of the voices we love;
But sweeter, O brothers, the kiss of the spray and the dance of the wild foam's glee;
Row, brothers, row to the edge of the verge, where the low sky mates with the sea.

Sarojini Naidu

a day in an unknown beach

a day in one unknown beach

unknown beach

keep a slow shutter speed( 1/2 or 1/3) and manual mode.keep manual focus option on. tripod would have made it look more professional. then after you click zoom in before the shuuter closes to get this radial blur effect.. say goodbye to that filter.. hehe

chitranjali studio

sorry abt the low quality .. the bastards in the studio scanned it in low resolution..

close up .. with studio light...

special thanks to burpoid ...thanks bitch :P

SURREAL

taken from a ordinary SLR... no photoshop work ( no blur ) other than removing the scanner dots. danks once again to burpoid

gemini 2