Place Value..

It was a usual summer evening.. A cool late- evening breeze flowing by my window.. A mug of coffee in my hand, I was staring at the sky, birds chirping happily and trees dancing to their tune.. "We have a 5 room apartment and you are always found here, in this corner by the window!", I remembered my mom's words.. "Aah! mom", I always sighed.. "If only you could see this, the way I see it.. "

6 years ago, when I had first entered this "under-construction" structure, this window caught my eye.. the whole place was cement clad, dark, dingy, somber.. Only the window added life to that place.. In that chilly place, the window was my only bond with the outside world..

The window had been with me through thicks and thins.. It had been a friend I never had before.. It always knew my feelings and understood me so well.. It always knew what it had to show me..

Once I had a dispiriting day.. A mug of coffee in my hand, I went to the window. Staring out of it, opened a world outside of my own.. In that world, there was no place for my problems.. There were kids playing "catch - catch" and aunties gossiping.. While trying to guess what the aunties were into, I had forgotten my own problems.. But for the window, the room would still have been a room but not MY room..

First Love.. A feeling worth sharing with all around you.. But I chose to sit by the window and let the experience sink in me.. I chose to tell her.. Breeze and the smell of wet mud is what she had chosen to react with! Oh, how did she know me so well..

Anger, frustration, grief, distress.. All the feelings vanished when I sat by her. That cool air calmed my nerves and the solace took over me.. Tranquil is all I was left with when I sat there, staring at the blue sky..

As my mom saw it, it was just a corner of a huge home.. As I saw it, it was my teacher, my friend, my interface to the world..

Science Or Arts ?

When the world is advancing technologically, Scientifically!, Art is balderdash to many.. Knowing Science is a mark of respect but taking up Art is sign of a Loser! Here's a question.. Have you ever thought what an Art is and felt what it is like to be an artist?

Art is the irrationality par cognition! It is the abstract beyond the concrete, a sixth sense, a fourth dimension. An artist can make a whole new world for himself of his art. Art is a way of expressing everything that you feel and feel everything that is beyond expressions.. Art is beauty.. Art is the medium of conversation for an artist with his God..

Think of science.. What are the different things that come to your mind? Biology? Physics? Chemistry? Thats it right? And what about Psychology? Or Yoga? Or Architecture or Drawing&Painting? All these are Arts.. But delve deeper into these topics.. Aren't all these a superlative form of all the sciences we have listed above? Psychology means study of human mind.. It starts with biology (study of human brain) at its base and goes ahead by studying the aspects of human mind that are unfathomable to science. Yoga is an art tailored scientifically to enrich not just the human body but also the mind. Architecture would be nothing without the laws of physics but just the laws of physics cannot give you your dream house without a touch of art to it! What exactly are you doing when you are painting? You are mixing a few colors to get the colour of your desire.. Mixing a few chemicals.. In fact that is how archaic painters came up with brilliant paintings.. By experimenting with different chemicals and coming up with variable shades! So art, in-fact, personifies science!

Art unifies sciences.. In most of the art forms, two or more sciences co-exist in harmony! They blend so well into each other that we cannot even differentiate.. Music is one such art form..It can heal an ailing body better than medicines say a few.. It creates chemical reactions in brain to soothe it , even sedate it more powerfully than many drugs. Also, it plays a major role in Acoustics (A branch of Science). Creating Musical instruments requires a strong base in physics. Instruments like Guitar, Veena , Santoor etc are based on principles of sound bridge by considering length, density and tensile strength of the material used for instruments.. Do all these sciences occur separately to us when we are in a concert?!

An artist is thus a scientist in the making only with a vision to see an extra dimension through art! He is a devotee in its truest form and Art is his sincere prayer to GOD. And, to me, It feels out of (this) world to be an artist!