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It’s always fun to learn something new :)… and I have this habit of learning new things while creating gifts for my friends. Shraddhvaani – “Shraddha ki vaani” is my attempt at woodcrafts with laser 🙂 – something I learnt for my last birthday. The initial idea was to create bookmarks with quotes from my friend (trust me, you’ll see a lot of the...

The goal in chess is to check mate, but quite often we rage to kill the opponents pieces, hence lose the purpose. Life is similar, though a bit longer. It is important to keep sight of the goal to make suitable moves. It is easy to lose sight of long term rewards while cherishing immediate returns. — Kiran Madipally

Eyes are the portal to look into one’s heart. But, I have always wondered – “how do (you feel that) all the emotions show up in the eyes” – it is fascinating how our mind works :). For me, the best part of drawing a portrait is bringing out the emotions I see in the photograph. I was sketching Jo’s photo and the expression was very subtle. I wa...

I saw on a friend’s status – “I don’t know what it takes to win, but i know that all it takes is a few mistakes to lose” My response – “It takes a few mistakes to win too, but the key is how much you learn from those mistakes, and how quick :)”

This is a charcoal sketch of our “god-daughter” Jo :D…! It was done on cold pressed paper (my first attempt at it…) I wanted to capture the subtle pleasant curiosity she had in her eyes and facial expression…! Hope I justified it… :)…! This is incomplete, hope I’ll finish it soon 😀

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. — G. K. Chesterton, Scandal of Father Brown

Recently, I came across Omegle – their tag line “talk to strangers!” – and obviously my curiosity got the better of me and I started experimenting with it. It had multiple ways to interact with strangers – you could either meet them by interests, or by location. You can also just post a question or a topic for discussion and watch two strangers...