I may make another film! About a grandmother who lives far away.
Bella Dia’s Pillowcase skirt!
Bella made a skirt out of a pillowcase! Go check it out!
Words of love
For you, my luscious fig
the Taj Mahal wouldn’t be too big
For you, my sweet paratha
I’d write a poem longer than the Mahabharata
I’d walk backwards over the Himalayas
if you’d spend with me your nights and dayas
For the maharani I adore
I’d steal the priceless Kohinoor
I’d meditate
I’d levitate
to hear you say
“That dog is great!’
For you my learned guru
I’d learn to speak Urdu
and for my true-blue fakir
I’D pluck the rarest rose from Kashmir
I’d practise Ahimsa
for one quick glimpsa
your pure clear white soul
the one that knows all.
So come my darling Darjeeling
my prize, my jewel,
my everything –
our Karma can’t be clearer
there’s no one I hold dearer
no Fata Morgana
it’s you that I wanna
share Nirvana with.
Swami on Rye,
Maira Kalman
Happy Anteater
This happy anteater will be part of an alphabet book I’m working on. Drawn with crow quill and ink wash.
Our house
This weekend Viv and I framed some old stuff and put them up on the wall. The ones on the left are all mine, sketchbook pages from 2002, and the ones on the right are Viv’s; and the cover for the mouse book.
Nokia 3220, May 2006.
My Spices
Since I’ve learnt to cook I think spices are the greatest thing after gravity! No wonder there was such massive spice trade in the middle ages. They’re simply amazing – a handful of those harmless seeds and leaves will turn mixtures of food into culinary wonders! Chitrita Banerjee has written a wonderful essay on panch phoron – the five spice mixture of Bengal in her book The Hour of the Goddess. Panch phoron is really nigella (kalonji/kalo jeerey), cumin (jeera), fenugreek (methi), fennel (saunf/mouri) and mustard (shorshey/rai), dry roasted together.
From My Sketchbook, May 2006
Viv’s baths!
Viv hates taking baths! He’s always trying out some trick or the other – spraying deo all over, wetting his hair, he’s even become tried out hanging his wet towel on the line, hoping that I won’t catch onto the fact that he’s not had his bath today. But I’m too clever!
From my Sketchbook, May 2006
Petty Soo and the Banals
When I finally get down to having my own band, I’ll call it Petty Soo and the Banals! Viv will be my lead singer and I will play the drums, and our first hit will be The Ballad of the Banals (lyrics will come later).
From My Sketchbook, March 2005
A new mouse
I just had a children’s picture book published!Here is a spread from it. The book is the story of a little mouse who wants to travel the world but none of the other animals want to come with her. The book will be retailed through schools around India.
Pastels, Feb 2006.
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