DHAR DHAR

Yesterday evening, I finally got LSE accommodation for my time in London… It is Sidney Webb House on 159 Great Dover Street, London. Though I preferred other Halls, LSE offered me a single room here with an en-suit bathroom… I will have to accept it by making an advance payment of £200 within 14 days…

I found this great site http://www.breaksinlondon.co.uk/gdsfaq.htm which has got loads of information about the hall. If someone needs any info about the Hall, then this is probably the best site after the official LSE site here.

and finally, keeping up the tradition, here are some photos of the Hall…

View from Tabard Street.

View from inside the courtyard.

Single Room

image courtesy: www.lse.ac.uk.

Among the known dimensions, time sticks out as especially interesting. Firstly, its limited supply introduces the need for choice. Supplied with eternity, we would be able to do and see everything there is. However one can’t have all, and especially not all at a time. Consequently time also poses the necessity for order. It is time then which forces us to design our lives. Life is a work of art; sometimes designed intuitively or by strict layout, irreversible mistakes being part of the picture. Time-aesthetics is life-aesthetics.

How then grasp time? Firstly we need a simulated environment in which we can control time. Now consider time as not a constant flow but a material that can be shaped. While time remains invisible, the changes of the time/space relationship will open up an intriguing visual experience.

In creating a time sculpture the material to start from is form in motion. A body changes its form and position in space over time. We extract a given time segment including all positions the body had within it. With “time cuts” a new form is carved out of time. The artist therewith redefines the relationship of time and space. The body will still perform its motion in space while different areas also represent shifted points in time. The form will flow and melt according to the new rules. Time Sculptures explore the nature of time and its relationship to form and consequence.

From http://www.martinmaurer.com

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Today is World Pi Day… Pi is a numerical constant used in Mathematics, whose value is approximately 3.14… As it fits perfectly with March 14th, so the World celebrates Pi day today…

To mark this occasion, I have created these two designs… Hope you guys will like it…

Rang Barse from the 1981 movie Silsila…

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It is the best Holi song ever… ENJOY

Holi, also known as the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu spring festival observed in India,Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, the UK,and Nepal. In West Bengal of India and Bangladesh, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav (“spring festival”).

Holi is celebrated by the masses by throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dahan (death of Holika) to mark the miraculous escape that young Prahlad had when Demoness Holika, sister of Hiranyakashipu, carried him into the fire. Holika was burnt but Prahlad, a staunch devotee of Lord Vishnu, escaped without any injuries due to his unshakable devotion. Holika Dahan is referred to as Kama Dahanam in Andhra Pradesh.

Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalugna or Falguna (Phalgun Purnima), which usually falls in the later part of February or March. In 2009, Holi (Dhulandi) is on 11th March and Holika Dahan is on 10th March.

-Wikipedia

This small render is to mark this joyful and auspicious day.

Image courtesy: Times of India / Anindya Chattopadhyay

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

I don’t know how these people (Obama and his speech writer) come up with statements like that, but like it or not, what they say is khara sona (pure gold)… But to my despair, I am totally hopeless at such things… After much deliberation, discussion, torn notebooks and deleted word files, I am writing this ‘about me’… So, penning stuff that might someday become ‘Sid quotable quotes’ is totally beyond my intellectual capability…

Anyways, I will try… I would like to say, ‘I am a simple guy’, but that would be safed jhoot (lie)… the people who say they are simple are probably more complex than the most. So, I am a complex and multifarious guy, who on the one hand loves to indulge in fairy tale wisdom and humongous make-believe worlds and on the other, practical and sensible stuff… The ratio, you can say, is about 60:40 though…

My ‘stuff I love’ list is so long, producing it here (or for that matter, anywhere) will be a sheer logistical challenge, but the ‘stuff I hate’ list has only one item, Okra… ufff… I HATE it… Apart from that, I am at peace with almost everything… I bunked a lot of classes at school and that is evident from my lack of ‘moral science gyan’, the class I bunked the most… Eg. ‘Sorry’ and ‘Brilliant’ have no special significance for me, I say them all the time… Therefore, if a say ‘sorry’ then don’t think I mean it, or if I say ‘brilliant’ then don’t assume u are actually one…

I used the quote above coz I realized my true potential quite lately after I hitched my wagon to something massively larger than me… Something so large, it jolted my wagon’s very existence and made it do stuff, which would have been utterly impossible a few years back…

Ya… so… thatz about it for ‘about me’…

This is Perdono by Tiziano Ferro… Awesome song… ENJOY