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The young daughter pours the oblation of ghee into the sacred fire of the "havan"...and her tears pour down her tender young face.

My own eyes fill as I see the sorrow of the toughest part of growing up. If Agni and Swaha do not take her love up to her father, surely those twin streams of salt and grief will do so.


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A drew "sight words" (words that need not be spelt out but just recognized) in this drawing, and asked KTB to look for them.


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This is going to be an unabashedly proud-grandma post ( Read more... )

This cartoon, which I drew when in college, proved to be so popular that I must have drawn dozens in the notebooks of my friends, teachers, and college mates...decided to draw one and send it as a greeting card to someone today.


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Here

is the write up about the Bird Race 2013. Don't miss

Rohan Chakravarty 's great cartoon!

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The write up, published in an edited form on Citizen Matters, has been put on the India Bird Races blog:

click here to see it

It also contains a lovely cartoon by the talented, cartoonist,

Rohan Chakravarty

who is a recent, and valued addition to the Bangalore birding community!

prashanthchengi suddenly changed his Facebook userpic to that of a little devil, red, with cute little horns, a forked tail, and a trident....and that brought my "comic-book" past rushing back to my mind ( Read more... )

This one...there's a problem. KM id'd it SO wrongly that I was startled, so I asked another friend to id it...and she too did not id it instantly. Only my Indian friends can id this person (think old-timer,belonging to a famous family)....and tell me what is wrong with the sketch.


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When she can no longer be in my arms, she flows out of my fingers...


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