Moving, enlightening, touches you deep.

A very moving talk by one of the most revered photojournalists of our time - Sebastiao Salgade

An exhibition on visual history of yog

An exhibition drawn from 25 collections from across Europe, USA and India. 100 master pieces of Indian Art and some extraordinary films thats tell the amazing stories of Yoga and also show the beauty, depth and diversity of the Indian culture. For all those who are interested in centering their lives around Yog, this exhibition presents a rare insight into its existence since time immemorial.

The exhibition went on air in SFO USA and Cleveland in year 2014.

A museum of conflicts

A city-based web portal covered a very unusual place long time ago. This post is take directly from that portal. Read on and be amazed. 

“Unbelievable! This kind of place exists? Seriously?” – That was our first reaction when we came to know about this place.

Welcome to the one of its kind museum in India : CONFLICTORIUM – THE MUSEUM OF CONFLICTS!

The Conflictorium is set to be a participatory museum that addresses the theme of conflicts. The museum got inaugurated on 14th April 2013 and is the brainchild of Avani Sethi in collaboration with Navsarjan, Janvikas and Ideal Centre for Social Justice and associate partners.

It seeks to act as a third space to create a dialogue through art. Donated by Ms Bachuben Nagarwala, the Gool Lodge building used to be her two-storey home & studio, where she practiced as Ahmedabad’s first hair stylist.

It houses history of different kind of conflicts that Gujarat has witnessed in past. But that’s not all; the museum has some real unheard things to do & experience : Conflict Timeline, Theatre Of Conscience, Inner purity, Empathy alley, Moral Compass, Memory lab, Power Of The New, Perspectives, Third side café, Reconciliation workshop, Gallery Of Disputes, Sorry Tree, Touch/Be Touched, Conversation Quadrangle .

For example … experience “In the house and in that world”. Listen to the audio clip while sitting in front of the same mirror that was used by Bachuben, Ahmedabad’s first hair stylist. What will happen? You will see your inner side in the mirror, feel what she used to do and get energized after you have finished this clip. Follow the instructions and do what they asked in the audio. Do it, because we did it! Similarly, there are many other amazing things to experience.

Not just look around this place, also interact with the people there, participate to generate ideas and content freely through the various spaces at this museum, enroll in several courses and workshops offered there. Also, register with them against a fee and be a “Friend of the Conflictorium.” They are also planning to run movies every week at their beautiful auditorium

We can keep writing but we will run short of words … so we can only say “You can’t miss to experience this place.”

For photographs of the place please visit http://www.cityshor.com/ahmedabad/conflictorium

Cheers!

Women are powerful, elephants are proof.

Based on an excerpt from The Oath of the Vayuputras there is evidence that in the scheme of nature, women were made smarter, nature made them that way!

In oath of the vayuputras, the male elephants are best suited to be trained for war. The reason females are not included is because they need a very strong purpose to attack someone, like a threat to their own child whereas the males, because they spend most of their adult life surviving on their own become tough nuts, which once cracked are easy to manage and remain loyal to their mahaout's command.

In the elephant matriarchal system all the important decisions are taken by the eldest female species. Decisions like where to feed, who remains and who has to go out of the herd. The males are kicked out when they are adolescents. Female elephants move in a herd as they are good at protecting each other's calves. Male elephants are invited in for a little while when the females want to be impregnated!

Cold and unfair as it may look, but as Ganesh explains, nature is concerned with efficiency not fairness.

And hold on, there's a tip in the excerpt that might be helpful to the wives, girlfriends in decoding and knowing their partners behavior. Elephant males are somewhat like human males. They both are out their struggling to make a living, they are survivors of sorts and carry a hard, cold shell around them. But its only a matter of time before they are broken in by their lady love, they remain loyal to their master(read wives ;))and act as instructed! 

Please dont kill me for this analogy.. but it is definitely fun to make it! No offence intended to anyone!!