A heart beat perhaps best describes being alive and if you ‘look’ at it closely (or symbolically), being alive means facing or experiencing the continuous ups and downs of life

For sometime now, in our day-to-day conversations, I have been taking note of things some people (myself included) hate. This graphic celebrates all that hatred. Guess it’s very difficult to understand the feeling of hate. Apart from individual likes and dislikes, it probably has something to do with pressures of daily life, bad experiences, personal or professional frustrations or difficulties, unrealistic expectations and a lot else…

This graphic tries to capture the state of preoccupation that so many urban dwellers leading high pressure lives often find themselves in when they try to escape or take a break. Often the preoccupation makes it difficult to simply notice or appreciate your surroundings or environment, or so I felt when I had taken a break from usually hectic work schedule to Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur (above). It took a while and some effort to get out the preoccupations and notice the tremendous variety of foliage, hear the varied bird calls, smell the pure air and get a sense of the place….

A graphic to illustrate the feeling of struggle (the mountain that comes in the way of your reaching home).