An illustrated newsletter (1)
Dear readers,
Hello! As promised here’s the last of the free newsletters. Starting April, the newsletters will be at Rs 90 a month, I need to make money and this will be one way. I will be sending out two newsletters in a month. It will include pages from my daily drawing practice, links to articles, stuff from the books I am reading and a writing / drawing prompt for you to try at home.
This one doesn’t have any prompt. I’m starting with elephants because they are my favourite.
Even though I enjoyed The Elephant Whisperers so much to watch it again the next day, I think All That Breathes really deserved the Oscar because it was as much the filmmakers film as it belong to Saud, Rehan and Salik. Today is the last day to watch it on Disney Hotstar. You don’t want to miss it.
As a fabric fiend, it was impossible not to have something about fabric.
The history of Kanga is implicitly bound up in the history of slavery. Slave women were forbidden to wear colourful, printed or decorated cloth, forced to wear plain, uncomfortable, very durable, but very hot white canvas. The kangas on sale today in Tanga and Zanzibar reflect along historical deep embrace of life, and freedom.
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As part of self care, I try and spend some time in nature and I can’t recommend it enough.
If you want to identify Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher or our blue bird friend, here’s what it looks like.
Almost thought I was going to Ratnagiri and started reading Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace but I am sick in bed and Ratnagiri isn’t happening but I am really enjoying the book.
And ending with something I saw in at a fair near my house.
If you haven’t read Maggie Smith’s book excerpt in The CUT, read it now.
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Indu
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