it feels like how being in love should be....

  ...floating through a dark blue sky. 

with a goat playing the violin. 

for.... happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.

 Happy Valentine's day !!

(p.s : quoting from notting hill for i cannot ever have enough of that movie :):) )

Inaugurating my new paint brushes....

Wishing and wanting to see you, I step on thin ice....

 

Oh, how I wished and wanted to see 

you, but you were a person I could not 

see at will. With the tip of my shoe I 

played with the thin ice that had

frozen on a small pool of water. I did 

not know what to do with my feelings 

of wanting to see you.

When two people fall in love, it is 

sometimes possible for them to see 

each other whenever they want. But 

with me, I did not have the courage to 

go see him, so I stayed at the edge of 

the thin ice.

Like the thin ice in the early spring, 

my feelings were so fragile that with a 

small shock they would have broken 

apart.

- haiku by  Madoka Mayuzumi

[the picture is from the February-page of the calendar that hangs on one of our walls.. and the haiku is my find of the day... aren't they just the verses to begin the month of valentine's day !!]

Art Love...

me and husband are extremely fond of art. we visit art galleries whenever we can and often return with a bundle of art-prints ..... besides others, we both have developed a special appreciation for the strokes of Van Gogh and the forms of  Hussain.... so yesterday when while surfing online I came across this art event where serigraphs of Maqbool Fida Hussain and Sayed Haider Raza would be exhibited, I just knew where I would be this evening !   ... and so at 5pm today i and a friend were at Sumukha Gallery,  glaring at a wall with The British Raj at one end, Asoka at the other and an array of Hussain's Kerala-Jaisalmer and horses in between....

Kerala, Hussain

Since our print-collection does not have a Hussain yet I was hoping that today i would find one... but serigraphs were all that they had.... i however did not return empty-hand... for the gracious lady at the gallery handed to me a booklet of limited editions which had this message by Hussain in it....

                          it made me smile... for we are certainly the class with more taste than means......

Cranes on Silk..

 Aren't these cranes gorgeous ? My brother Tushar painted this pair of cranes on silk today. and can you believe that this one is his first attempt on silk. isn't he brilliant !! I am so proud of him !!

Have a relaxing weekend !!

With a summer school coming up next month and two conferences lined up after that, there is very little besides work that I have on my mind. The summer school is on Modular Representation Theory and in preparation for it,  we (me and another participant from my institute) have decided to complete a considerable portion of J. L. Alperin's book on Local Representation Theory and parts of  J. P. Serre's book on Linear Representations of Finite Groups.

Well,  in case you are reading this post,  you might be wondering why I am blogging about my work plans in such details....... The reason is that printed words inspire me a lot... and earlier whenever I have blogged about my weekend plans, just to keep up with my words, I have struggled really hard to accomplish my goals. so I am hoping that by blogging a bit about my work plans I will be able to drive myself into doing all that needs to be done !!

Hope you are all doing great at your work front and achieving all your goals... Have a relaxing weekend so that you are well prepared to dive into work on Monday ! Math and movies relax me a lot... so to relax myself i have booked myself for  a Saturday-matinee and for the rest of the weekend i have committed myself to math !!

so much from me... good-bye,

take care and tell me what you are up to if you have some time to spare....

[image: “Woman reading in a Garden” by Mary Cassatt ]

A painting and a poem ....

Words of wisdom ......

 GYPSY

I asked a gypsy pal
To imitate an old image
And speak old wisdom.
She drew in her chin,
Made her neck and head
The top piece of a Nile obelisk and said:
  Snatch off the gag from thy mouth, child,
And be free to keep silence.
Tell no man anything for no man listens,
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.

~ Carl Sandburg 

The painting called "Gypsy Woman" is by the Russian artist Nikolai Yaroshenko. I found it by google search and wished to share... Isn't it lovely ?