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Who is Banksy? The Artist Who Makes the World Stop and Look

Sometimes art is not just about colour, drawing, or painting. Sometimes art is also a curiosity, surprise or even a thought provocation. And sometimes art appears on a broken wall in the middle of  a difficult place and makes the whole world stop and think. That is why many people are interested in Banksy. Who is Bansy? Banksy is one of the most famous street artists in the world. He is known for…

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Meaningful Screen Time: How I Gently Guide My Child Toward Curious Thinking

As a parent in today’s digital world, I’ve had to ask myself one honest question: If screen time is inevitable, can it at least be intentional? I don’t believe in extreme restriction. I believe in redirection. Children are naturally curious. They don’t need endless fast-paced, overstimulating content. They need wonder. They need stories. They need questions. They need to see the world…

Meaningful Screen Time: How I Gently Guide My Child Toward Curious Thinking

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DeePolygons!!

Geometry always fascinates me!

When I was in school, my Math (Geometry) teacher taught us to draw a circle around triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon and octagon. Initially, I found it's difficult to draw an odd no. sides shapes, but practice made me to achieve. But I had a curiosity of these shapes; there will be infinite sides in the polygons till it becomes a circle. Teacher taught us that circle is not a polygon, It is made up of infinite sides and it has no corners (I never got a straight answer on it).

I sketched a circle around an equilateral triangle, then square around it, circle-pentagon, circle-hexagon, circle-heptagon , octagon,... till septdecagon (all intersecting each other). I found an interesting pattern out of it which gives a visibility of a sphere. I cloned it and rotated upside down. 

After intersecting these equilateral polygons 'Hexagram' formed in the center. But, what if I do it either way around. I placed circles and polygons inside this triangle one by one same as above. (see below figure)

Hexagram is called as a 'Mandala'/ 'Sadkona Yantra' found on ancient South Indian Hindu temples.  It symbolizes 'Nar-narayana' or perfect meditative state of balance achieved between Man and God.

"The downward triangle symbolizes Shakti , the sacred embodiment of femininity, and the upward triangle symbolizes Shiva, or Agni-tattva, representing the focused aspects of masculinity. The mystical union of the two triangles represents Creation, occurring through the divine union of male and female. The two locked triangles are also known as 'Shanmukha'—the six-faced, representing the six faces of Shiva & Shakti's progeny Karthikeya. This symbol is also a part of several yantras and has deep significance in Hindu ritual worship and history." (courtesy: wikipedia, hindu-temples)

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I started exploring polygons, like.. variations in geometry, by seeing them in nature, drawing patterns, their applications design etc. There are lots of types of polygons & characterized by regular, simple, convex, concave, euilateral, equiangular, etc.

(made below drawings to understand them)

But, what if I start creating patterns on my own. Even if many people have worked on it, still more work has to be done. Because there are infinite possibilities to explore polygons. Followings are my practices & efforts of making patterns out of them. Trying to achieve balance between complexity and the simplicity. 

I'm also understanding 3-dimensional forms of polygons, called as 'Polyhydrons', below is the one which I explored in paper.

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***More work is to be done & I'm willing to do intricate and detailed formations.

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Think in ink!

Today, I did practice in ink. Purpose is to understand space, elements, harmony, rhythm, consistency and balance in between them. These can help me in creating layouts on my own, rather than following what others have done. Also, wanted to study the angles as I am willing to do part-time calligraphy, a bit practice to hold pen at right angle. I experimented with horizontal, vertical, round random strokes. 

1, 2, 3.. are following...

Later, I thought lets just make something crazy!! I decided to print my feet and hands dipped with an ink. It symbolizes a meaning in a Hindu culture. Hands and feet of Goddess Laxmi brings prosperity & luck to the house. It is inspired by my mom's Rangoli.

Below is the symbol always drawn by mother near our door. 

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Study of the Indian Scripts

Malayalam Aksharmala

Kannada Aksharmala

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"The more languages you know, the more you are human." - Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Aim of this study is to learn Indian scripts, and the next step would be logo adaptations from roman script and designing new Indian fonts. Also, I am very interested to become multilingual.

If I go to different city in India I need a translator to communicate with local people. And every-time its not possible to have translator along with you. Most of the time, I would feel like I'm an illiterate, because I don't understand alien Language and script; hence, I don't understand people, city, their culture and the way of thinking completely.

"The limits of my language are the limits of my universe" - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I soak my head into the pond of knowledge… And, when I want to do something new, I shake off my head to sprinkle away all that I had in my head...

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Geographic Comparison of India with other countries!

Today I was looking at the map of India on Google and was looking how the geographical structure is. And then I moved it to view other countries like, US, UK ,Canada (north of US), UAE, China, Japan. And other countries looked to me most simplified than India. Below is the comparison between other countries and India (from where I belong).

Canada is similarly multi-lingual and multi-cultural as India. But, If we compare geographic structure of both countries, there is a huge difference that most of the parts of India will look visually cluttered in map.

(screenshot of a map: some part of Canada Way)

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(screenshot of a map: part of India)

Why can't be India well-structured? Why can't we design the country geographically? Why is the reason India is been so cluttered?

While Canada is considered to be recent civilization, India is an ancient one. Canada is simplified in may ways, such as standard of living, education and infrastructure,non-elective government, less corruption and population, where India is different from this country. It is very complicated to understand Asian country like India. And also very difficult to decide to which problem is to focus on and where to start from. 

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(screenshot of a map: part of UAE)

While looking at Dubai, Palm Jumairah (artificial Iceland chain) attracted my attention. Great example of geoglyphic design. This represents Dubai as one of the fastest growing countries in the world. 

What if we design India geographically? Not to make an artificial archipelago, but at least reconstruct and simplify roadways and governmental residential areas. Could it be possible?...

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I am reading more about my country to understand and value it. Also, understanding other countries to know how different is my country and what can we do for it!

Seeking for more realization... !