Mind Sketch

Somewhere at Pondy Beach 

Did you share yourself today ? Times Life : 2 May, 2010-05-18 In this artcle Indrani Rajkhowa Banerjee brings into life a very inspiring account of ordinary people who are amazingly trying to create a difference in lives of those to whom small things we never care of can bring a lot of difference. Consider few instance, taken from the said article and other sources: Someone in Mumbai distributes footwear at traffic signals to barefoot people, another man collects the leftover food at weddings to feed hungry kids, in Delhi a gentleman distributes drinking water in shanties of west Delhi, another person never leaves home without packets of glucose biscuits for poor kids, a young journalist instead of visiting church every sunday religiously visits nearby home for aged people and spends her time with them………… A guy collects rickety and torn out bicycles and repairs them and gives them to school kids who otherwise would have dropped as parents are reluctant to send kids far away to schoo...

Priest At His Master's Gate This is the the gate of famous Chidambaram Temple which is dedicated to Lord Shiva whose is present in the temple in the form of Natraja in cosmic dancing of bliss. This photo was taken on 12-Feb-10 on the day of Maha Shivratri.

Every Donkey Has Its Day Times have changed. Dogs has got competitors because now every donkey also has a day. This picture says it all. Clicked from my nokia N72, this pictures hangs at the entrance of Kumaran Guest House @ Pondicherry.

Dare Devil's Task To twist the moustache is a dare devil's task. Here I am doing this job and Praveen clicked this snap for me at Pichavaram. Pichavaram is the second largest mangrove forest in the world, located near Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu . Dasavathaaram, the movie featuring Kamal Hassan has many scenes which were shot here.

This is called striking balance. And this man certainly knows this. Clicked from my N72 at Thavalakuppam - Pondicherry on one summer noon of Aug-09.

It was beautiful march by the this pack of ducklings across the busy Anna Salai, Pondicherry which caught everybody’s attention notably dogs, whom the man directing these ducklings was keeping at bay with his bamboo stick. Surprisingly when he stopped at one point while shooing away the dogs this pack also stopped, though the man was walking behind this pack. It was really surprising to note that this pack was following the movements of its master who was behind it. Feb 2010 edition of GEO magazine carries a feature ‘The Intelligence of Swarms’ which tells how group behavior of some week species of animals and birds help them not just to survive but also to grow. An interesting read, it is for people who would like to know about the intelligence of nature in its myriad forms.