20th Edition of Shadow Dancing With Mind

Welcome to 20^th Edition of “Shadow Dancing With Mind”. This Edition has the following topics.

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL:

The section gives you insights of some of the people I have had a chance to meet, interact or have read about that have made a deep impression on my thoughts and feelings...

Vladimir Kush - Another Salvador Dali?

Recently I came across an artist, whose paintings made me think about Salvador Dali. Vladimir Kush’s painting style hits you with a new vision, color and ideas about the things he paints about... just like the Dali...

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The Purpose Of Life? - Cathedral Man Don Justo

When we look back at our life and question ourselves... where we are going, what are we doing and what this life is all about... etc, we don’t really have a clear cut answer? We rationalize, we wonder and sometimes we doubt if we are doing anything at all. Or we are just hollow and empty shell trying to fill our existence with possessions, belongings, ideologies, beliefs etc...

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TALKING POINT:

Some of the things that is happening around me, as I get into the daily grind of my life every day, which has made to stop and then think....

How Will You Measure Your Life?

My younger brother send me this wonderful talk “How Will You Measure Your Life” given by Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen to the graduating class of 2010 on their request to address them, “not on how to apply his principles and thinking in their post HBS careers but how to apply them to their personal life.” ...

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Genius Mathematician - The Monk Who Solves

Some days back, I woke up to read that Mahan Maharaj of Belur Math won the highest honor of mathematics in India "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award". Mahan Maharaj is a Monk at Belur Math in Kolkata, set up by another great spiritualist, Swami Vivekananda. ...

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Hindu Literary Festival - Lit For Life 2011

First day of Hindu Literary Festival 2011 – Chennai

I have been waiting for the Hindu’s Lit For Life 2011 - Chennai – A literary festival spread over two days i.e 29^thOct and 30^th Oct. Cancelled all my activities for these 2 days and focussed on only one thing, to find out for myself what the great writers are made of? 

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And the winner is... "Lit For Life 2011" PART II

Second day of Hindu Literary Festival 2011 – Chennai: 2^nd Day of Hindu Literary Festival and the winner is ...  It was a pleasure to see a very talented and humble person and a new friend,Rahul Bhattacharyawinning ‘The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011' for his lovely book “The Sly Company of People Who Care”. 

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STILL LIFE:

A place where I take you with me to a journey through my impressions and pictures that I have had taken...

Festival of lights - Diwali 2011

I am sharing in this post some powerful spiritual energy sources in India associated with Goddess Durga and Laxmi, that has made a strong impression on me. Sharing  also some of my impressions of Diwali from past year... But before that, let me introduce my friends from abroad to this important festival of light...

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The Tata Grande Indiblogger Meet @ Chennai

I have had met Renie Revin almost a year back at one of the Social Media meet organised by another good friend. Renie's talk interested me to get on to the IndiBlogger and share thoughts with another passionate bloggers from across the world...  and last sunday, it was the first time I attended the blogger meet. It was a great journey from being a individual blogger for personal satisfaction to connecting with like minded people from all walks of life.... 

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WHISPERS:

A section where I post my poetry, Haiku and verse’s about love, life and living....

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar... Dedicated to Vikram Seth

Some of my free form Haiku to begin with and then my dedication to the powerful style of poetry reading by a great author Vikram Seth, hope you would like it...

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Wet and Sandy Beach

Some of my Haiku about yearning and then a long verse ‘Wet and Sandy Beach’ on a subject that some (including me) consider taboo...

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Tears In The Rain

It’s raining in Chennai and I love rains... It brings me close to nature as well as it feels as if some sadness is being released from my inner depths... so here I am with my thoughts about it and some of my Haiku related to it....

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Shashi @ Nov 2011

ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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19^th Edition of Shadow Dancing..

WHISPERS: Fire, Faayar, Faayaar... Dedicated to Vikram Seth

Some of my free form Haiku to begin with and then my dedication to the powerful style of poetry reading by a great author Vikram Seth, hope you would like it...

Morning Blossom by Vladimir Kush
A Surrealistic painter, Click here to see more...

Death is beautiful flower

Flowering in emptiness

Utterly naked in being

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Your pain is not

The result of my love

But of my possessiveness

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Love is the process

Of self revelation

In her eyes

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Last weekend, I was attending the literary festival, (where my friend Rahul Bhattacharya was awarded The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011), I came across many giants of Indian Literature as well as some great names from abroad. It was an amazing experience throughout the days but the recitation of poetry, “FIRE” by Vikram Seth from his new book, “Rivered Earth” captured my imagination and touched me deeply. Vikram Seth is an amazing writer, who has enthralled the world with his creative genius, with books like "A suitable Boy", "The Golden gate". "An Equal Music" etc. As he came up on the stage to talk with Nisha Susan from Tehelka Channel, I did not have any inkling that he will set the stage on fire.

Vikram Seth at Hindu Literary
Festival Chennai 2011

To start with, he was sitting while chatting with Nisha and reading his poetry, but when he started reading his final verse ‘Fire’, slowly got up and walked on to the front of the stage... softly raising his voice almost to the level of a war cry... with word ‘fire’ menacingly leaping out of his mouth, transformed into Faayar... Faayaar.

The poetry below is about that moment when Vikram Seth’s whole being was consumed by the fire of passion and creativity...

Vikram Seth breathing fire....

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar...

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There was no fire

But then there was passion

A complete consuming desperation...

With its flickering flame of desire

From here to eternity

In thoughts

More so in the vision of

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar...

And it engulfs you in its crescendo

The music of burning deep within desire 

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar...

And there he was

Completely enflamed in the vision

His long forehead

To his thinning hair

Slowly his desperate cries took roots

Into the earth within

And he himself buries himself in...

In the flames of passion

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar...

What I was thinking

Or whether even I was...

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar...

As he rose, like a phoenix, from ashes

Of desire, a full throated war cry

In his most unobtrusive way

And captured

The essence of life

In being; and I saw

The place is on....

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar...

Ferocity, in her own trembling

Hands, fumbling to capture desire

Fire, Faayar, Faayaar....

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Shashi@2011
ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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Wet and Sandy Beach

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL : Vladimir Kush - Another Salvador Dali?

Recently I came across an artist, whose paintings made me think about Salvador Dali. Vladimir Kush’s painting style hits you with a new vision, color and ideas about the things he paints about... just like the Dali...

Divine Geometry - Valdimir Kush

For example “Divine Geometry” the artist shows us the boundaries of the Earth's night. Two conical bundles are defined by the illumination of the Moon. This is the viewpoint of an observer, high above the Earth in the Cosmos. A romantic mood is created by the artist conveyed by the night voyage of the sailboat around the globe.

His paintings created a deep impression within and thought of sharing some of his painting images below. But before that, here is brief biography of the immensely talented painter....

Vladimir Kush

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A Brief Biography

Vladimir Kush

Vladimir Kush was born in Russia, in a small one-story wooden house on the northern edge of Moscow, near the forest-park, Sokolniki.

Vladimir Kush entered the Moscow Higher Art and Craft School at age 17, but a year later he was conscripted. After six months of military training the unit commander thought it more appropriate to employ him exclusively for peaceful purposes, namely, painting propagandistic posters. After military service and graduating the Institute of Fine Arts, Vladimir painted portraits on Arbat Street to support his family during the hard times in Russia.

In the year 1987, Vladimir began to take part in exhibitions organized by the Union of Artists. At a show in Coburg, Germany in 1990, nearly all his displayed paintings sold and after closing the Exhibition, he parted ways with the two other Russian artists that had accompanied him. He flew to Los Angeles where 20 of his works were exhibited and began his “American Odyssey.”

In Los Angeles, Kush worked in a small, rented home garage, but was unable to find a place to display his paintings. He earned money by drawing portraits on the Santa Monica pier and eventually was able to purchase a ticket to his “Promised Land,” Hawaii.

In 1993, a dealer from France noticed the originality of Kush’s work and organized an exhibition in Hong Kong at the Schoeni Art Gallery. Success surpassed all expectations. In 1995, a new exhibition in Hong Kong at the Mandarin Fine Art Gallery brought more success. In 2001 Kush opened his first gallery, Kush Fine Art in Lahaina, Hawaii. He now has 4 gallery locations in the USA with future plans to open in Hong Kong.

Text and Images: From his site.. 

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Now some of the images that has touched me deeply...

Edge of the world - Vladimir Kush

Breach - Vladimir Kush

Departure of Winged Ship - Vladimir Kush

Family tree - Vladimir Kush

Garden Of Eden - Vladimir Kush

 Forgotten Sun Glasses - Vladimir Kush

Stopped Moments - Vladimir Kush

To the Top - Vladimir Kush

The Shot - Vladimir Kush

Hope you have enjoyed this post and if you would like to know more and see more of his paintings, please have a look at his website... Vladimir Kush


Leaving you with a wonderful YouTube Video showcasing his paintings... Enjoy!!!

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ॐ नमः शिवाय

Om Namah Shivaya

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