Vignettes of a South African Township called Mdantsane

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Shinde Ki Chawni, Gwalior

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shinde ki chaawni
buffalos sleep opposite haridwar’s sweet shop
oblivious of people, traffic....
in a summer when tar looks different
and rivers of people slackened
dreams
staged
wet
to beating khus songs
somewhere there
in that river unheard of
we had looked up
to a sky often
where we lost our
once sudden breath
in a summer
on another night
when a skin wrapped the floor
eventually
we found resilience
in our tongues
waking to another
dawn
or did we ever
wake up.


Poem and Watercolor on a polished paper by Amitabh Mitra

Art and poem inspired from the music of Gustavo Santaolalla in the movie Dhobi Ghat

12 comments:

  1. Thanks a lot, Shree, I had been listening a lot the theme of Dhobi Ghat, the traffic congestion etc reminded me of Shinde ki Chawni

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  2. the painting is just amazing ... specially the colour and the style suits the theme...
    the sepia theme blends really well with the sepia painting!

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  3. - Brilliant :)
    - I am totally inspired :D

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  4. Thanks Nibedita
    I would call it a droplet painting because the color does not spread

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  5. hey your sketches are mindblowing....the effect too good...i mean the droplet effect....great artist...

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  6. Thanks a lot. Bina, its just the paper that has made the art look like this

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  7. yes amitabh ... i was wondering about this... i wasn't quite sure how this effect happened ...

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  8. Some effects like this painting leave a permanent space in mind to wonder for ever.It is very touching.

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