Jyoti’s Musings
Mr. Narender Mehta oriented me on oil painting almost 12 years ago. I painted under his guidance for a few months and overcame my fear of mixing colours with oils and seeing colours take definite shapes on canvasses. He was hardworking, thoughtful and patient – brought me painting brushes, helped me stretch canvasses and advised me to create original works.
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This two-day event on story telling and creative workshops at Sanskriti, Anand Gram (MG Road, New Delhi) sounds like a great idea for children between ages 4-14. I’ve booked Kabir for two workshops on one of the two days. Parents must hurry and register their children. This year there appears to be no charge on [...]
… rediscovering the power of Vim and Colin!
Each year about a month before Diwali, I’m sort of convinced that the festival will be a peaceful affair for me because of my diligent house-cleaning the whole year long. As the day gets closer though, seemingly insignificant corners of the house start appearing important for a closer [...]
Kishore and I made our much-planned 11-day trip to Goa end-September. We knew that the trip was going to be dominated by activities surrounding our flat’s makeover but we were still looking forward to it as in our search for houseware, it was going to bring Goa’s local markets/produce closer to us. On the previous [...]