Buddha found the light!!

Finally finished a painting for one of my close friends Piyush aka Pondi!!Pondi holds the title of making me cry more than once and sadly he's unabashed about his very ungentlemanly  like behaviour,nevertheless he's one of my craziest,super talented,most annoying yet adorably childlike[sometimes childish] friends.

 It was a piece I started a little less than a year ago and was supposed to be his wedding gift,but like many of the canvas pieces I've started,work came in the way and broke my momentum.As history would stand witness,when that happens the canvas invariably get shoved into the deep recesses of my mind and room, never to see the light of day again.

Luckily for him[or maybe not] this particular piece wasn't shoved into a corner in my room,in fact it floated around my room to the point that I just couldn't handle seeing it in it's half finished state.It was Piyush's birthday on Friday,I cracked up the music pulled out my paints and brushes and decided to go for it once and for all!!

Haaapppiieee birthday Pondi may this painting find its place on your wall and in your home for the years to come!!Many thanks for the patience and all the fun times we've have over the past 10 years!!

My love affair with dragonflies

I've always loved dragonflies!I've painted and sketched them a million times over and I even got one inked.I've never really been able to pin-point my love for dragonflies or been able to express articulately why i love them,it's just this light happy,floating feeling i get when i see dragonflies.I'm so happy its dragonfly season in Mumbai,every other day when i get the chance to take Astra[My little Lhasa bundle of fluff] for a run or rather a game of go fetch on our building terrace I'm met with a swarm of dragonflies dancing in the sky.

I remember reading about dragonflies a long time ago about how they are symbolic of change and transformation maybe at some subconscious level that's what i relate to or maybe its the ex-strategy planner trying to force fit logic to it.I'm no stranger to change in fact I sometimes think It thrive and feed of it.If things get too routine I know I've always found a way to shake things up.

Today i had an unannounced,unexpected but very welcome visitor drop in!!Happiness overload!!

Happy tired

It's been a heady crazy past couple of weeks,with bulk orders,customised orders and of course the very  very last minute orders.The project I've taken up isn't relenting either, with meetings,meetings and more meetings,launches and get togethers.On the social life front, things seem to be following toe with birthday celebrations,catching up with long lost friends who decided to show up in Mumbai after eons and other commitments I couldn't weasel my way out of!! It sits well though that all of this chaos and madness ended with a lovely road trip to Pune, one that I've been planning to do for a long long time to meet a very close friend of mine who just had a super adorable baby girl!!

I've love getting out of the city!I haven't landed up doing as much of it as I'd like, it makes so much a difference to just get out of this chaotic city, even if its just a short drive to Pune and back.Suddenly I feel all set to take on the blows and punches the next week might bring with it.

This trip had it fair share of drama,my friend who was supposed to drive us down drank too much the night before,[the mallu he is!!]other friends who were supposed to join us made some last minute change of plans.After  much banging on the door at 7:00am,huffing and puffing and spewing the most innovative of swear words, a sleep deprived person could come up with at that hour,we all made it to Pune in one piece,with loud music blasting in the car and everyone singing at the top of their lungs[pretty much making up the lyrics as we went along]After a lovely time spent playing with little Sia,it's the mid-night conversations I love the most.I'm not sure guys rock it as well as we girls do, but suddenly when the lights are turned off and everyone in their PJ's lounging around on the bed conversation invariably takes a turn for more heart-felt.It's these small moments in life I cherish the most and live for!!

What made the trip all the more magical was ,on the drive back we were greeted with a  delightful downpour.There's something about the rain that has this ethereal magical feeling of washing away all your worries.So with raindrops seeming to take on a life of their own on our windscreen and the music taking on a more contemplative and melancholic garb I returned to Mumbai a content happy trooper!!