Adi Parva © Amruta Patil 2011
Visual Stories
- The Unblinking Hive
- Memento Mori
- Atlantis
- Saturated Paintbox
- Disaffection: Musings on Sedition
- Wean Yourself
- Liberal Lite
- Navigation, Safe Passage: 4 stories
- Plotline: How Sex Lost It
- Seated Scribe : Writers, Writing
- Freedom to What?
- Babel Fish: Monthly 2-page column
- Noah and the Ship of Fools
- Blood is Unreliable: A Family Album
- Something from the Mountain, Something from the Stream
- From the Water Stories anthology
- Ode to a page from 'Rabbi's Cat'
- Anatomy of Excess : Boy in the Tree
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Adi Parva, via Amruta Patil
Graphic novel based on parts of the Mahabharat, Vishnu Puraan, and the tradition of oral storytellers. 1st in the Parva trilogy, Adi Parva will be released in Fall 2012. Click on the image above to follow Adi Parva on Facebook.
Kari by amruta patil
Graphic novel. 2008. English: HarperCollins, isbn: 9788172237103. French: Au Diable Vauvert, isbn: 9782846261722. Italian: Metropoli d'Asia, isbn: 9788896317105. Click on the image above to follow Kari on Facebook.
sieve by theme
1999
Ageing
artists
Babel Fish
beauty
belonging
Birth
blood
city
communication
compassion
cosmos
cow
Death
Decadence
Ego
Endgame
estrangement
Evolution
Exile
faith
Films
flight
food
Freedom
freezeframe
friend
Gods
hermit
hero
humility
journeys
justice
kari
kingdom
Language
Love
Madness
manipulation
morals
Mother
Myth
old school
originality
Parents
parva/the epic
photos
praise
Procreation
Published writing
Risk
river
sequential art
service
siblings
smell
Storytellers
sun
surrender
taste
teachers
truth
violence
work process
Writers
travel, arrival
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3 comments:
La reine est arrivée...
Le soleil, c'est le roi, mais la lune est la reine!
The sun is the powerful ruler during the day. But, it can light only one half of the globe and, therefore, the importance of Moon, although illuminated by sun itself, but is like a yogi as it reflects all the light back to the planets that do not have light of their own. And its effect on waters in the seas is well known and human form also as it has 78% water, also 'lune' happens to be the root of the word lunatic!)... and its effect together with sun is particularly seen reflected in the tides during new moon or full moon days...And thus it is not surprising that ancient Hindus, where Indu in Sanskrit means Moon, adopted lunar cycle for determining time, to understand the vagaries of Nature!
Suparna, ie, Vishnu's vehicle could be visualised to convey, as the most evolved among birds that rule the 'sky', Garud, our galaxy as the model of our infinite void, or universe that continues to grow, ie, expand indefinitely since time immemorial...
In so far as the present day knowledge is concerned (scientific advancement having started a few centuries ago only from scratch)... 'We' the human race has come to know earth to some extent only, while on the other hand knowing it as one of the members of our solar system, where Sun appears like a powerful Emperor, a ruler of the concerned heavenly bodies, (like Garud as the most evolved bird with keen eye-sight rules over the 'sky'), the planets, as it alone has the requisite energy to sustain them for billions of years: at present believably for 4.6 billion years and likely to continue indefinitely wrt the balance Hydrogen gas in its core, although earth's health itself and, therefore ours too, doesn't seem to be too good, although individually some of us might possess robust health...and History reminds us of Great Inundations / Fires, ie, Pralaya to Hindus, or even setting in of Ice Age, whereby life on earth freezes, to restart once again when ice thaws...thus the Hindu concept of human form as a model of the universe such that Brahma's Day (our 12 hours' as the average duration of one day) is indicted as nearly the present age of earth (immortal 'Gangadhar Shiva' as model of the unborn and unending universe)/ solar system (Mahashiva)!
Happy Diwali (lighting up the inner world)!
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