My friend and colleague John, has for sometime now been wanting to put his dad’s paintings online. John’s dad John as well, now lives in Queensland and has been painting for a few decades and has achieved some local Australian and international recognition for his work of art. His work has been held in private and company collections throughout Australia, New Zealand, United Stated of America, England and Switzerland. You can read more about John’s achievements and accolades on his exhibitions page.
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
They are living oxymoron of the glorious past and the vibrant present. New York & Calcutta. What a brilliant exposition of the two cultures. Quaint, rich, busy, retro, dirty, and yet charming in so many ways. Sandstone buldings, the bridges Howrah and Brooklyn in the two cities arcoss the rivers Hoogly and East River. Mira Nair’s new film Namesake hit home for a lot of people who probably migrated for bigger and brighter opportunities overseas. Set in the 60’s this captivating drama is about a couples journey into building a meaningful life in a strange new society that they were quite unfimiliar with — New York!
On watching the Foreign Correspondent last night I was rather moved. The disparity of the medical system in India is absolutely the pits. Many poor and life threateningly ill patients go unnoticed and eventually die due to lack of care and timely advise or medication — not just because its unaffordable! Never do the newspapers write these harrowing tales. Talk of dirt, poverty and pain doesn’t fetch the dollars or even rupees for that matter. They much rather leave it to the voluntary social workers to deal with these issues. Luckily, Ram the father of this suffering little kid Inderjit wasn’t one who sat back and resigned to fate or destiny. He went about diligently, doing all he could in his capacity to restore his childs health even though his wife left him unable to cope with Inderjit’s medical complications. It was one long uphill trudge for Ram running pillar to post to restore his little baby’s life to normalcy.
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We’re back from a very short but rather exciting few days in Western Australia. Western Australia is the biggest state in Australia.
It was really nice to catch up with Holly, Dean, Rose, Adrian and family. My flight on Thursday night got slightly delayed due to strong head wind which makes travelling westward from Sydney almost always longer than usual. Since the flight was at night there wasn’t much to see but again flying at 11,000 kilometers above the surface of earth one wouldnt see much anyway. The little tv screen at the back of the seats told me in time I was flying over Esperence — a city that looked well lit a city which also known for its magical coastline. Soon it started to descend and we’re approaching Perth. A small airport. The arrival area looked like a little country town airport. A short walk on the tarmac, onto the carousel and then off to Grand Medina which would be home for three nights.