Religiously Speaking

Ah.....after all that chaos and mad rush its back to basics with kids. As a mother I try to inculcate certain values in them. The other day I was telling my younger one to recite some mantras. I told her that by chanting some Durga mantras she will get budhi (intelligence). She was getting late for school and very reluctant to chant those. She spoke in a very matter of fact manner, " Mama, budhi toh mil jayegi, school bus nahin".

Ha,ha, ha. Well, school bus is important too. There is mantra to get that too...that is by "early to bed, early to rise".

But then that is the most difficult part. The night birds will agree!

Wishes....of faith and hope

Hi, its been long I have been away from my Fortified Quirkies....and I missed it. I was just too busy putting up and then watching my interactive installation....Wishing Tree shape up. There are lots of emotions and feelings with those wishes up there. There is fun yet faith and what goes on inside the human mind is reflected through those words scribbled on just about every bit of paper. Even when I spoke to people about it, about a month back, the responses left me thinking. So some of those responses which were raw, unpretentious, simple and basic in nature made the opening statements on the Wishing Tree. The scribblings were like graffiti and the paints were used without deliberation in order to not intimidate but invite people to create a dialogue between the audience and the wishing tree, which by now could communicate.

The response had been amazing. The responses will find a place in my article and the blog and may be in a series of paintings on the canvas.

The Kala Ghoda Festival is on till 12th Feb. Go, make a wish! :)

Wishing Tree

 Wishing Tree

By: Mridual Kalia Bhatnagar

"Why a wishing tree? Because there are many theories about the world coming to an end by 2012. There is negative sentiment but still so many believe that the world won't end.  There is a kind of chaos but despite that various people walking this earth have different aspirations for this year and after, and it will be very interesting to represent wishes of the common people. 

I invite people to write their wishes and the same would be hung on the tree. 

'ख्वाहिशों का पेड़'

कभी यह हाथ उठते हैं दुआओं में,

कभी पेड़ों पर मन्नतों के धागे बाँधने के लिए.

जिंदगी के सफ़र में जितना भी मिले कम लगता है,

जब तक सांस है, दिल करता है मांगने के लिए.

२०१२ के बाद साल ज्यादा हो या कम, अभी मौका है 

 आप की कई ख्वाहिशों को एक पेड़ पर बांधने के लिए.
 

मृदुल कालिया भटनागर



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