Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
‘The Lady of the Decoration’, detail. Painted on paper and board in pen, ink and watercolour by Harry Clarke in 1914 @StudioTeaBreak
@SukanyaVerma Those were days! I also miss cassette combos of such movies. Enhanced the movie watching and music listening experience. Thanks for reminding me- ‘jaata hain tu kahan’ most fun and underrated song in that album
@SukanyaVerma Surely. I want to see Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa’s, Sunil becoming a successful musician after his Dad was lectured by entire neighbourhood that Sunil his hazaron mein akela. Being a dad to a teen myself, my sympathy now lies with the dad (earlier it was for Sunil).
Thursday #PortraitChallenge! ✍️
‘Surprise’, a self portrait drawn by Louis-Leopold Boilly in chalk on paper, sometime between 1800-1810 @StudioTeaBreak
We're celebrating the 165th anniversary of the birth of a true great: Rabindranath Tagore, who was born #onthisday 7 May, in 1861 in Calcutta, India.
The first non-European literature laureate, he was awarded the #NobelPrize "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
Read more: https://t.co/cglURuTyvy
#Tagore165
Tomorrow marks the 165th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore's birthday. We remember the poet by sharing one of his most famous poems, "Gitanjali 35".
Stay tuned to learn more about Tagore tomorrow.
"Jana Gana Mana" (Bengali: [ɟənə gəɳə mənə]) is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the #NobelPrize in Literature in 1913.
Pictured: An English translation of Jana Gana Mana by Tagore
The man who drew the world. As we celebrate Mario Miranda's 100th birth anniversary, we look at the genius who turned everyday India into theatre and captured the life in motion. In the midst of all the chaos, he created a world of his own. Here is to A Century Of Mario
#Mario