Thank you @b.u.n.n.y.p.u.p my little boddhisattvas love all their gifts, though this is their favourite. They’ve seen mama floating around on set and at home in robes, now they have their own lockdown swag.
This Mother’s Day, I want to share a message with all the ‘children’ in the world. Mothers are the frontline workers of our hearts and homes. They often do so much for their kids silently that it goes unrecognised. So let’s celebrate those uncelebrated hours and express love to them by sharing one of our treasured memories with them under the #RadoTimelessMoments and Rado will surprise a few moms with a small token of love in the month of May. Remember to tag your precious memory with #Radotimelessmoments and I can’t wait to see them! Happy Mother’s Day. Stay safe, stay healthy! @rado #rado
This #RadoTimelessMoments exercise has got me all sentimental. I’ve finally pulled out old photo albums which were lying in boxes since we moved to Singapore. My mother was a supernova, much ahead of her time, with an Indian soul. If you’ve read my book #closetothebone you will be acquainted with fiery Barbara Gallus who defied all cultural expectations of her era to marry a young PhD student from Calcutta. Scroll through to see one of our family pilgrimages to an ancestral bungalow in #Serampore
Share your precious moments and tag me and @rado
#radotimelessmoments
Don’t wait for the world to create opportunities for you, to recognise your talent, your unique gifts and power. Value yourself first, find the tools inside that keep you strong and centred. Don’t wait for the world to catch up. Blaze ahead. With humility and right action, you will cut your own path through the forest.
#lockdownmusings
QUEEN.
My mother circa 1962. Scroll through to see the young man from India who was avidly courting her.
#radotimelessmoments
Samara is a lot to take. We would probably not be friends.
But at least she appears to have good taste in books. Scroll through to the end.
@4moreshotspls @pritishnandycommunications @primevideoin
Happy Mama’s Day Everyone!
Everyone loves #bts images especially when the hard work is done. Here’s one that includes my rockstar director @nupurasthana who I credit with helping us all hit the right notes in @4moreshotspls
(Photo bombed by strange masks- Samara has weird taste)
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Exhale.
Repost from @dollyjstudio using @RepostRegramApp – @lisaraniray in a #dollyjstudio bridal lehenga for the web series @4moreshotspls .
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#bridallehenga #desibride #indianbride #realbride #celebrity #celeb
We must not forget that light is the eternal companion of darkness. Happy Buddha Purnima 🙏🏼 Now more than ever, let’s hope Shakyamuni’a teachings will prevail. #Souffle – my wee bodhisattvas- and I ventured out today for flowers to adorn our Buddha statues at home.
So this happened
Thrilled @4moreshotspls is making waves with its frank female centric gaze 🙏🏼 I’ve been waiting since the 90s for strong, fallible, dynamic, determined Indian women – as I know them and see these qualities in my female friends around me- to take centre stage in mainstream entertainment ✌🏼 Repost from @rangitapritishnandy using @RepostRegramApp – #enoughsaid
#fourmoreshotsplease
@nytimes
@pritishnandycommunications @pritishnandy2018 @aparnapurohit @nupurasthana @devikabhagat7 @misschamko @banij @iamkirtikulhari @sayanigupta @maanvigagroo @primevideoin @4moreshotspls
After years of running, Cortisol- the chemical of stress and the source of inflammation in my mind and body- had altered my biochemistry. Did I believe a spiritual disconnect was the source of my illness? Partially, yes. Am I free today of emotional distractions and subconscious chatter? No. But just as you can retrain your palate, I work to retrain my nervous system, coaxing it from the fight or flight response, through daily meditation, retreats, reflection…there’s no short cuts to wholeness. .
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And I was so afraid of being loved. Until I met myself. Certainly my beloved is my partner in love and life but I needed to lay claim to my pain, to my shadow side as well as my many joys. It is natural to feel, to be vulnerable and to share. It is part of the fabric of the human condition.
I whispered love to myself, like to a child. I saw myself through the tenderness of a mother’s eyes. I sent love into the broken, neglected places of myself.
I focused on flipping the pain perspective to turn it into a journey towards self love, self discovery and compassion
Now I am glued to life. I have the unshakeable honesty of a woman who knows her worth. I am strange and contradictory, I am ageing and my body is spreading, I’m socially awkward and that’s all right.
Real wealth, I’ve always believed, is measured by owning your days, not by accumulating homes and cars. I’d always questioned inherited values, so redefining success for myself means this:
Going to the borders of yourself, expanding from there by failing, by falling, by rising. By unearthing buried instinct. By accepting my gifts and my limitations. By laughing.
Behind the gloss and the gods of economic forces, cities are erupting. Lifetimes of contained anger and resentment, untended wounds land like violent strokes on a canvas.
Can we, in the time we have alone and confined, pay obeisance to the very human experience of being broken, being misunderstood and vulnerable. Ultimate resilience to me, lies in the ability to open completely to each experience and to know the sublime states of a heart led life. Can we make friends with ourselves before stepping back into the world?
Repost from @pritishnandycommunications using @RepostRegramApp – Just one of those goofy #bts videos that we had to end a Sunday evening with. Enjoy! Courtesy @lisaraniray
#fourmoreshotsplease #season2 Now streaming on @primevideoin
@reannmoradian @rangitapritishnandy @pritishnandy2018 @maanvigagroo @banij @iamkirtikulhari @sayanigupta @4moreshotspls @nupurasthana @aasthasharma
Video by @bhavyaarora
Via @nithyashanti
There are about 4,300 religions in the world and countless subsects within these religions. Many will not like to hear this but science is also a form of religion. There is no less dogma and unwillingness to re-examine cherished assumptions in the light of compelling evidence in the scientific community.
So how can one really be sure that the religion they were born into or exposed to represents the most accurate way of understanding the world?
Max Muller said, “To know one is to know none”. We only really understand and appreciate the beauty and blindspots of our own religion and worldview by being willing to expose ourselves to completely different ways of looking at reality.
There is powerful teaching in Jainsim that speaks to this… Anekāntavāda (Sanskrit: अनेकान्तवाद, “many-sidedness”) which states that the ultimate truth and reality is complex and has multiple aspects. Each aspect is internally consistent and valid in its own way, yet also inherently incomplete.
What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. Let us be willing to question everything, including our favorite questions and our capacity to understand.
Manjushri is one of my favoured Buddhas. We’ve always had a strong relationship. He holds a sword in his right hand — symbolizing his ability to cut through delusion. In his left hand, by his heart, he holds the stem of a lotus flower, which bears a book — the Perfection of Wisdom teaching, or Prajnaparamita.
This Mother’s Day, I want to share a message with all the ‘children’ in the world. Mothers are the frontline workers of our hearts and homes. They often do so much for their kids silently that it goes unrecognised. So let’s celebrate those uncelebrated hours and express love to them by sharing one of our treasured memories with them under the #RadoTimelessMoments and Rado will surprise a few moms with a small token of love in the month of May. Happy Mother’s Day. Stay safe, stay healthy! @rado #rado
Repost from @tylerstreetart using @RepostRegramApp – Keep calm and corona
#tylerstreetart #mumbaigraffiti #corona #coronaart #streetartindia
Repost from @takeonart using @RepostRegramApp – Rabindranath Tagore, the literary scholar, polymath, poet, musician and artist, is best known for reshaping Bengali literature, and Indian art. Tagore began painting relatively late in his career when he was in his sixties. Nevertheless he produced thousands of works and was the first Indian artist to exhibit his works across Europe, Russia and the United States in 1930. His painting style was very individual, characterised by simple bold forms and a rhythmic quality, and later served to inspire many modern Indian artists. Santiniketan embodies Rabindranath Tagore’s vision of a place of learning that is unfettered by religious and regional barriers. Established in 1863 with the aim of helping education go beyond the confines of the classroom, Santiniketan grew into the Visva Bharati University in 1921, attracting some of the most creative minds in the country. In celebration of Santiniketan’s Centenary, our latest issue TAKE Bengal (Part I) explored the history and the contemporary situations in Bengal in order to regenerate an alternate form of history writing. We pay tribute to the great Tagore on his birth anniversary.
Here is an image of Rabindranath Tagore interacting with students from TAKE Bengal (Part 1). Image courtesy to Argha Kamal Ganguly.
#RabindranathTagore #BirthAnniversary #BengalSchool #BengalArt
Happy Buddha Purnima.
May we cultivate joy in the journey and learn to dance with uncertainty. I could go on about universal heart values – metta, Karuna, mudita, upeksha – shared by Shakyamuni Buddha with the intention to liberate all beings from the wheel of suffering in Samsara, but perhaps you’d prefer to just admire the disco aura coming off this particular Buddha captured by @jayapriyavasudevan in #SriLanka six months ago.
#painiscertainsufferingisoptional #buddhapurnima #mayallbeingsbehappyandfree
So delicate, filled with longing and the timeless joy that is moonlight gazing, which is accessible to all of us, even under lockdown. And what an artist. Read below.
Repost from @dag.world using @RepostRegramApp – #WomanCrushWednesday
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“Her pictures have no design, for they have grown. Unbroken and unswerving is the flow of lines, for no hesitation deflects them from the course they take as they well forth out of her very nature.”- art historian, Stella Kramrisch wrote in her glowing review of Sunayani Devi’s work in 1925.
Sunayani Devi never received any formal training in art, and had very little exposure beyond the Raja Ravi Varma prints and Kalighat pats that were collected by members of the household. Perhaps these limitations prompted her to look inward when she started painting in her thirties, going on to develop her own unique methods. Her process began with applying pale washes of colour on paper, and then drawing out the forms that emerged on the surface of the paper with minimal lines.
As we wait for things to settle, experience our New York exhibition on Primitivism and Modern Indian Art on Instagram.
Sunayani Devi
Untitled
Water colour and ink on paper
12.0 x 9.0 in.
#DAG #IndianArt #Art #Indian #SunayaniDevi #Primitivism #ArtExhibition #Exhibition #Modernism
Thank you @vanajourney for the opportunity to receive refuge and renew my Boddhisattva vows online with the blessings of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche on the day of Vesak. The first time I took refuge was @tushitameditationcentre in Dharamasala. In an age of ever increased uncertainty, it was wonderfully surreal to experience Rinpoche’s talk and blessings by webinar. Of course I breathed in my fill of birdsong and Bir mountain air through the screen.
Repost from @idriskhan_studio using @RepostRegramApp – ‘ Overthinking ‘ – Oil on musical score – reading a great book recommended by @alain_de_botton from #theschooloflife – ‘Anxiety’ … ‘The temptation, when we are worried, is to direct our determined intelligence to trying fully to anticipate whatever may be coming for us down the line. We try to strip the unknown of it surprises; we seek, quite understandably, to do nothing less than control the future.’ #idriskhan
My mother instilled in me a deep love and respect for all creations of Mother Nature. Today, as a mother myself, I turn to nature for guidance. Watching how the forest adapts to seasonal changes and how miracles like natural diamonds are born under heat and pressure, is a masterclass in understanding resilience. So this Mother’s Day, I would like to say Thank You, from one mother to another.
@onlynaturaldiamonds_in #MothersDay #NaturalDiamonds #MotherToMother
