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Friday, June 12, 2026

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

LITTLE BEAUTIES

They may seem insignificant as they are small in size, but the impact they make is huge.

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Poetry book 'INDELIBLE ETERNAL ETCHINGS':

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STORIES

Short Story book 'A PEARL FROM EVERY OYSTER':

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https://www.amazon.in/Pearl-Every-Oyster-Stories-Shorter/dp/1948473151/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GI23X9JIKQGK&keywords=a+pearl+from+every+oyster&qid=1583428674&sprefix=A+Pearl+from%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-1

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Monday, May 12, 2025

GRACEFUL BLOOM

Yellow this way looks beautiful.

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Poetry book 'INDELIBLE ETERNAL ETCHINGS':

https://www.amazon.in/INDELIBLE-ETERNAL-ETCHINGS-emotions-unbridled-ebook/dp/B072J4L656/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=indelible+eternal+etchings&qid=1583428166&sr=8-1

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STORIES

Short Story book 'A PEARL FROM EVERY OYSTER':

https://notionpress.com/read/a-pearl-from-every-oyster

https://www.amazon.in/Pearl-Every-Oyster-Stories-Shorter/dp/1948473151/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GI23X9JIKQGK&keywords=a+pearl+from+every+oyster&qid=1583428674&sprefix=A+Pearl+from%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-1

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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

A SHEER PLUNDER

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POEMS OF LOST LOVE

Poetry book 'INDELIBLE ETERNAL ETCHINGS':

https://www.amazon.in/INDELIBLE-ETERNAL-ETCHINGS-emotions-unbridled-ebook/dp/B072J4L656/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=indelible+eternal+etchings&qid=1583428166&sr=8-1

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STORIES

Short Story book 'A PEARL FROM EVERY OYSTER':

https://notionpress.com/read/a-pearl-from-every-oyster

https://www.amazon.in/Pearl-Every-Oyster-Stories-Shorter/dp/1948473151/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GI23X9JIKQGK&keywords=a+pearl+from+every+oyster&qid=1583428674&sprefix=A+Pearl+from%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-1

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

NATURE IN WINTER

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Poetry book 'INDELIBLE ETERNAL ETCHINGS':

https://www.amazon.in/INDELIBLE-ETERNAL-ETCHINGS-emotions-unbridled-ebook/dp/B072J4L656/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=indelible+eternal+etchings&qid=1583428166&sr=8-1

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STORIES

Saturday, March 8, 2025

UNIQUE FACE OF NATURE

Nature comes out with random patterns and each of them look beautiful.

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Monday, March 3, 2025

A CASUAL FACET OF NATURE

This is a free spreading casual creeper growing on a building at the Trinity College, Dublin. It's a unique beauty and the best part is that it's just a random facet of nature.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT

A stretch of rape seed in full cry.

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Monday, February 10, 2025

THE LANGUAGE OF THE CLOUDS

Nature speaks to us when we spend time observing its vibrations. The clouds have a special language of their own.

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025

STUNNING SHADES OF NATURE

Some shapes of nature are beautiful and stunning. It's the abstractness of the creation that makes it that beautiful.

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Thursday, January 16, 2025

YELLOW IS STUNNING

I loved this yellow spot in that huge garden space.

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

REFLECT AND FIND

A great space to invest our time.

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Saturday, November 6, 2021

YOUR SPECIAL COUNTENANCE

My Dear Sea,

I have seen your countenance,

The rough and the mild,

While you went through thick and thin.

Thanks for this beautiful countenance with this blue smile.

I will travel any length to get even a small glimpse of this.

I will be with you through all your times.

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POEMS OF LOST LOVE

Short Story book 'A PEARL FROM EVERY OYSTER':

https://notionpress.com/read/a-pearl-from-every-oyster

https://www.amazon.in/Pearl-Every-Oyster-Stories-Shorter/dp/1948473151/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GI23X9JIKQGK&keywords=a+pearl+from+every+oyster&qid=1583428674&sprefix=A+Pearl+from%2Caps%2C302&sr=8-1

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Monday, January 25, 2021

GREEN SPACES - AN ARTIST'S PARADISE -1

"To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug" - Heller Keller.

I wish I owned a huge space like this to always sit and write or paint in the midst of nature. But the catch is that we need to step out of these natural entities and frame of mind in the pursuit of filling up our purses

Most part of my two books were written alfresco, especially in green spaces like this, besides while on travel in company transport and public transport vehicles, waiting times in malls, schools, colleges and any other places where something had t be done and I had to wait.

Location: SOUKYA International Holistic Health Centre, Bangalore.

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Monday, September 23, 2019

THE CHETPET ECOLOGICAL PARK -CHENNAI

It was a pleasant surprise for me when I saw large amounts of greenery, bodies of water and well designed walk areas in this ecological park at Chetpet, Chennai. More such parks are coming up in different parts of the city.

This is a very good initiative by the government to revive and maintain water bodies and to bring human connect with nature.

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

GREEN TRAIL AT SUNSET AT KELAMBAKKAM, CHENNAI

Thursday, March 30, 2017

THE ROMANCE OF THE SUN AND THE GREENS

Friday, August 23, 2013

WHEN WE HEARD THE CHIRP OF BIRDS

Sketch of a birdie using Extra Dark and 2B pencils. I am doing sketching after a pretty long time. This was a cathartic experience and helped me to swim through my periods of stress.

I had been working on this over a week, as getting to sit right through is a real challenge. On the whole it has taken just less than an hour. I posted this on a night, after I got back from work and it is coincidental that the following morning, when I was singing a prayer song, I heard at least three different chirps of the birds in the trees around our house. I felt blessed.

A few weeks back, one of our neighbours approached us with a request to get a tree that has been there with us for years, cut and taken off at the root level. The roots had spread and the flooring that lay in front of their house, was opening out because of this. I was fine with the idea, but my daughter did not want to. She was so attached to the greenery and the birds that lived in them. She even asked me if I could fund my neighbour to get their flooring repaired each time it opened up, so as to save the tree.

I wish I implemented her idea, but practically speaking, we will lose this tree soon. I feel sad every time I think of it.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH PREPARED FOR MY DAUGHTER -TOPIC - NATURE AND MYSELF

Happy to share extracts from the speech that I prepared for my daugther for her elocution competition at the Church Sunday School. She bagged the second place for this. This was her first rendezvous with public speaking.

Mother Nature is in fact a mother for all of us too. Like the animals, birds, trees and other beings, am also part of nature.Everyday there are numerous children being born into this earth, into the lap of Mother Nature.Each one of these births, come out of nature's longing for itself, a longing to see another good human being, who would preserve and protect it.

When we look around and observe, we see some human promote scientific and technological development. In the process they invade nature and its pristine privacy.But then there are some humans who ensure that nature is always preserved.

Mother Nature teaches us many lessons. One of them is about the strength in meekness.We depend on nature for many things. We build our houses on it, live on it and dump all our waste on it too. Everyday, most of the human feet stamp this earth, while they walk. Nature bears all this so patiently, while still supplying all our needs. In this meekness of nature lies its real strength to give us more and more inspite of all that we take out of it. The Bible says in Mathew (Ch5.V5), " Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth".

The next lesson is on humility. Look at the beautiful paddy fields. The flowering weeds that produce nothing, grow tall and stand out in these fields, displaying their beauty in all pride. In a few days, they are but dead and gone. The paddy grows and when the grains sprout, it stoops down. It is the one that produces worth, but it is also the one that bows down in humility. The Bible says in Luke (Ch18,V14), "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted".

The third lesson is on the difficult path that leads to good. Look at the birds and their little fledglings. Days after the baby is born, the mother pushes it slowly out of the nest, prompting it to fly. The mother knowing the risk, prods the little one, so that it learns to fly quickly. The Almighty also, in a similar way, puts us on a difficult path, many times, for our own good. He always knows what's best for us, although we never realize.

Monday, December 31, 2012

NATURE STILL ATTRACTIVE AFTER DEATH

The snap above is what I took near a place in Anna Nagar, Chennai. The part of the dead tree still looks great, but not the clumsy formation on its left side. When humans create individual things for themselves they forget the overall perspective. It is mostly a selfish move and selfish moves never tend to see how the overall perspective gets affected. That is why the great appearance of this dead tree is not getting complimented by the intervention that is there on the left side, that man has made.

That is where Nature is so superior. Whatever it brings in has its own beauty. Even after its death it continues to fit into a part of the overall beautiful appearance of the natural earth. How it is able to do this is a mystery.

If you compare the two pictures you can see some difference. I actually dabbled with the first snap and spread some more of nature's creation over the buildings, transformer,etc on the left and so it looks so nice and soothing to the eyes.