Life

Water and Acrylic colors on Cartridge paper. The finesse is not there, but I really loved the color theme, its quite vibrant yet serene, I simply love these colors!!^_^

Play

2b graphite pencil on cartridge paper

Explore

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Shiksha

"Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for it is a lost tradition", my last post, just came across this thought and it just clicked immediately to me. I was left awestruck that how these minimal words had described my true feeling regarding "Teaching".

Gone are the days when they said, umm...rather, lemme say, felt, "Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu....". These words are just words now, may be said, but hardly felt. "Each profession has become a sort of business" is been talked about from long, but teaching is something different!

I hardly remember any of my friends having high regards for or getting highly inspired by any of the Teachers. Till school, it was still fine, but High school and College, Ununhhh....altogether different story!! The days in High school were meant to get to know the world outside, exploring the opposite sex, dates and mingles. For some dexters, it was the beginning for building the career base. Before even the start of first year of Junior college, class XII classes begun in coaching classes!! Yup, even before entering the college, the teachers there were rejected and the classes, a platform to experience a new, the most exciting and famous part of college life, "BUNKS"!! Colleges were more familiar with Bunks rather than attending classes, which were now referred to as lectures and Teachers now referred to as Miss' and Ma'ams, bechare Sirs, had no variety in that, called the same, whether it may be school, high school/ Jr college or College.

Hmm...so is this this attitude of students of not attending lectures makes the teachers less regarded or they themselves??!!

Ummm...Somehow, I feel both. Students lose regards for them, even before knowing them and they(i.e. teachers) lose regards for their own profession. For them, it's more of completing the lectures, than educating the children...oops...he he...better say, students!!;):)

Gone are the days when children aspired to be teachers and gone are the days when people chose their profession because they love doing that!! Profession these days is becoming more of a virtue, rather than choice, to be precise, a self created virtue, coz even if it is a choice, the eligibility criteria is mainly the salaries, rather than interests!! And the society has become such materialistic that I think the more progress Man is making, the more is Humanity suffering. Well, ahem, kahan se kahan pohonch gaya main!! Well may be this is an altogether different issue, close to my heart, closely related and hence may be strayed on to this!

Hmmm...so where were we??!! Yup, 'Teaching'. So, somewhat, the Teachers too are becoming so, like most of the other professions, by virtue and not by choice.I still remember, we used to think in college, that when they don't get anything else, they become teachers!! and That, was somewhat quite true, at least as far as engineering teachers are concerned!!And hence, students are not at all to blame here, coz most teachers we had in engineering, somehow, didn't deserve to be called "Teachers".They didnt have a penchant for teaching or educating students. They were there to conduct lectures, and make money. And with brand new staff and a Principal too with every changing year, what else can one expect from poor students but kosoing the entire system and teachers and college. Under such scenario, how can students have high regards for Teachers/ Teaching profession, and unless they have that, How are we gonna get good Teachers????

What could be the reason for all this?? the system, the low salaries, low regards, lack of other opportunities, lack of respect of our own interest or the lack of confidence to accept and go ahead with it??? What is it?? Whatever it is, but it has sort of become a vicious circle and there has to be a way out of it, if not, we have to create it!!

Teaching

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."

Holding the Innocence

Innocence, hmm so one more soft charcoal and a second conceptual art!! It is Soft charcoal on A3 size cartridge paper, took around 70-75 mins.

The reason I liked this pic is coz immediately brought a thought, a feeling and a concept in my mind. It brought the emptiness in me, joy in me, happiness in me ans sadness in me, so in short, this pic makes me feel "haSpApDy" !!

The reason is, I really loved the lovely pic of holding a child in hand and the way it is presented. But on a second thought, it made me think, Wish we can hold Innocence!!

How wonderful it would be if we had a child-like innocence. Some people may feel how rubbish!! We have to grow with time!! an adult cant think or be like a child!! And then I thought surely, we have to mature with time, but does maturing mean losing ur innocence, Why do we have to start wearing masks and not be Innocent as adults!!
Why cant we retain that purity at heart when we turn adults?!!

How beautiful the world would be if we can hold that child like innocence??!! On a deeper thought, seeing the objective way, the world of adults is not much different than that of children, children fight for toys, adults for cars, property, actually, everything, children play games together, and adults too play games, but with each other and we can go on with such comparisons, but see the difference and u'll get my point. Adults dont have innocence in them , no way to forgive and forget, children may fight one second and play together the next minute, but fights of adults lead to wars!!!

when children try to imitate adults, they say, its not a child game!!

I say, when it comes to purity of heart,truth,love, forgiveness, Innocence, I wud say, "ITS NO ADULT GAME!!!"

Adhyatma

Okay, so now a conceptual art from my end, this ones something new and my first one in this domain. The concept is as its title suggests, "Adhyatma", Spirituality!! Here the eyes are that of the Durga or Devi who hold the highest place in the spiritual chakras. The circles are nuthin but the representation of human body made up of "Nine Doors", that is the nine openings of this body. two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, two from the bottom, and mouth and the tenth door being the Third eye, the tenth gate, through which the spiritual journey begins. The yellow dot, the twelfth one , is nuthin but representation of soul, which is entering the Third eye, and then a spiritual level behind the Third eye, which hold the "Sahastra Dal Kamal", the thousand-petal lotus, is represented by the lotus in between. The background, which is composed of brown color, represents nuthin but "Bhuvan", that is Earth, and hence the Human society.

Umm...so here is what was goin on in my mind when I made that...hope its not an overdose of Spirituality, ha ha...neways thats the way I think, so cant help it!!

And yup...thnx to the friend who suggested me to write about the concept, shuru mein thodi jhijhak si thi, to write or no, but then ultimately, I went ahead with it, So, thank Darren for that!!