Illustration Friday ..."Protest"

Raise a hand in protest

For the follies we make,

We have no one to blame, 

......but Nature.

The Uttarakhand floods - North India - A man made disaster.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/25/world/asia/india-floods-development/index.html

Illustration friday..."Eye Glasses"

Mahatma Gandhi

To look through the eye glasses of a remarkable man,

Will I see the world as he did?

Illustration Friday ...."Yesterday"

Just like yesterday,

I picked my crayons.

Just like before,

I drew the Red Fort.

But this one will never be as stunning,

as the Red Fort I drew when I was five.

 

Illustration friday... "New"

 Women of India..

Let's hope for the New,

Let's ask for a better tomorrow,

For a better world,

For me and for you.

In memory of the brave young 23 year old gang rape victim 

who succumbed to her horrific injuries and stirred a nation.

Illustration Friday ...."Freeze"

 

Winter lakes that freeze

A shikara still goes by

Beautiful Kashmir

....haiku

An attempt at creating a haiku- A short English verse of 3 lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure. Haikus have a more complex structure in Japanese poetry from which it originates. 

Sometimes less can mean more and fewer words can describe better the scene before us. That is why I love the simple haiku. You can interpret it in so many ways.

Illustration Friday..."Hitched"

Hitched

 

I hitched a ride down memory lane,

Softly bumping along the way.

Never a hurry, nor a worry,

The sweet feeling of a lazy day.

Illustration Friday ...."Jump"

An Ode to

The Ancient Martial Art of Kalaripayattu 

of South India

A twist, a turn, a lightening sword,

A Rhythmic jump, swift to fall,

Leaping as a leopard, ready to fly

To touch the clouds, to reach the sky.

Illustration Friday..."Yield"

 The king of fruits-Mango

With April and hot weather around the corner, 

looking forward to a bountiful yield of delicious, juicy mangoes. 

Mango is native to the Indian sub continent 

and India consumes nearly all it produces.