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sunrise @ marina beach, chennai

a spider

i discovered macro photography quite by accident and now am positively thrilled by it.

i am amazed by the perfection in minutest detail of this spider-the symmetry-the geometry-its web etc. etc.

kudos to nature!

nanda

she has been photographed so many times right from her birth, that she has become completely oblivious to the camera!

fortune-teller...

she turned up yesterday @ our office. all the girls were lining up to get their future un ravelled. some are supposed to have 5 kids, some to get married to a king, some to have 2 husbands etc. etc.

i was given only one advice, keep the camera aside and get my fortunes told. because she sees a great potential in me to make in big in arts it seems!

he he

tulli

meet tulli... my daughter nanda's favorite cartoon character on TV.
tulli is an adventurous snail, who tries to figure out where she has landed everytime. but because of her small size she doesn't get the "big picture" straight up and would see a small part of an object and takes it for something else.

and there is voice that keeps asking questions to tulli to help her discern the situation.

finally after attempting for 2 minutes (duration of her slot), tulli figures out what she has landed on.

good plot eh?

wish i had a similar voice...

or for that matter, wish i was as innocent as tulli or my daughter!

the lamp...

the "vilakku", the traditional lamp, of kerala is a key part of traditional life in kerala. hindu families (well most of them) light it every day. as dusk settles in, one can see young girls after their evening bath, sitting in front of vilakku in their evening prayer.

they come in all kind of sizes and fixing details. "nila-vilakku" - the one that is kept on the floor; "thookku-vilakku" the one that is hung' "kuthu-vilakku" - the one that can be carried etc.

the artforms of kerala like kathakali, mohiniyattam etc are traditionally performed at dusk in front of huge "nilavilakku"s called "aatta vilakku"

naming ceremonies, marriages, deaths... the vilakku is a part of all.