On the occasion of 75th republic day of India 🇮🇳, my artwork “Holy Ghats of Varanasi” was exhibited at the Indian consulate on 26th January 2024. It was a great honour. I am thankful to […]
Author: Devendra Dhakad
Art auction for a cause
One of my paintings named ‘Light of Love’ ( which was previously exhibited at the HongKong National Library) was auctioned at the charity event organised in the office. It raised 4,000 Hong Kong Dollars. 100% […]
My Art Exhibition at HK National Library
One of my paintings was on display at the Art Exhibition at the Hong Kong Central Library (National library) Hosted by: Hong Kong International Youth Artists Society.Organised by: AI GalleryLocation: Exhibition Gallery 2, Hong Kong […]
A life for others…
I have painted this house from childhood memories. It belonged my mother’s aunt. We fondly called her Kala Aaji (~grandma) (कला आजी)Here is her short story, Aaji was born around 1924-1925. Second among 6 siblings […]
Summary: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
In short 🔍 Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful Roman emperor in the first century AD and a noted Stoic philosopher. Being the richest man at the time, all possible pleasures and luxuries were at his […]
What and why should we read?
Reading is one of best habits that pays off in the long term. It enriches your life in many ways you cannot imagine unless you try. People attribute success and greatness to reading, but I […]
Summary : Man’s search for meaning
In short 🔍 One of the best books based on author’s first hand experience with extreme hardships of life, on the verge of an imminent death in the Nazi concentration camps. His factual accounts of […]
WINTER MORNINGS
#Artwork available Water Colour on paper
Wait for the last bus
Water colour on paper
Float or Fly…you must try
Water Colour on Paper
Take a pause
Water colour on paper
Warrior of Light
Acrylic on canvas
Don’t play for the crowd
Charcoal on paper
Creative adult is the child who survived
Charcoal on paper
Multiverse exists
Charcoal on paper
Wound is the place where light enters you
– Rumi. Charcoal on paper
City of lights
Abstract cityscape with oil on canvas
Walking into the light
Charcoal on paper
Build a caravan…
It’s a long lonely walk for each one of us Among unknown faces, all anonymous Except once in a while when we meet at cross-section Overcome hesitation, have interaction, Air filled with tension and few […]
Remember who you are…
#Artwork available
Before you can become, first you must Be.
Up in the air, things are in order, You are closer to the universe as there is no border. Ask whatever that occupies your mind, Wonder till you get the answers that you find. Listen […]
Permanently closed door becomes a wall..
No door wants to be closed permanently and become the wall, that it was meant to fight against. Walls know their purpose and gladly obey it till the day they are standing. A door however […]
What problems to solve?
I am a great fan of Richard Feynman & his simple yet insightful anecdotes. One of his quote about problem solving goes like this, “No problem is too small or too trivial if we can […]
This was your song
#Artwork acquired by a collector in India Remember the long ago when we lay together In a pain of tenderness and counted Our dreams: long summer afternoons When the whistling-thrush released A deep sweet secret […]
We live on…
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to […]
Evolution
Each generation comes in…looks back thinking they are the brightest ! only till the next one arrives on the scene & claims the same …
Unknown distance
#Artwork available Be Grateful, for you never know where others are, how hopeful to be where you are.
Everything is fair?
#Artwork available Everything is fair in war? Everything? Karna…forgotten hero of Mahabharata
Never felt the heat?
#Artwork acquired by a collector in India Someone was walking through fire …just to make you feel safe sailing through clouds. Parents…
Harbour or Glory?
#Artwork acquired by a collector in the US Harbour offers false praise, Ocean offers glory..Would you then stay new or Be worn out & fiery ?
All animals are equal?
#Artwork acquired by a collector in the US All animals are equal; some animals are more equal than others – George Orwell
He never asked that question again
#Artwork available He had burned everything there was to burn within him; he had scattered so many sparks to start so many things – and he wondered whether someone could give him now the spark […]
In the eternal night of could-have-been..
#Artwork acquired by a collector in India “On the bank at the end Of what was there before us, Gazing over to the other side on what we can become, Veiled in the mist of […]
To truly laugh…
#Artwork acquired by a collector in Dubai “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!” – Charlie Chaplin
Drawn deeper…
#Artwork available People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues – Haruki Murakami
The Five Year Rule
A simple question to ask, “Would this person be still around in my life in five years time?”
They
Sometimes there is this inconspicuous presence of whispering voices and staring glances, call it whatever you may…I call it “They”
Tracing the roots
We all should look back & give it a thought, our respective ancestors might all be ordinary people who did not have made much difference to the world but made enough for everyone of us, who carry similar legacy of wilful or circumstantial choices made centuries ago, for which we are here today.
It isn’t time that’s passing by, It is you and I…
‘Time flies’ has almost become a cliché ; we hear it all the time when someone becomes nostalgic. We never really put into context the direction one is looking into and the pace of the proverbial flight.
Inscrutable future & the forgotten past
How things change over the time realizing value of people, mortality of life and how aspirations of future overtakes the past to make us forget it or at least take us far far away from it.
If you really feel you can help!
So if at all you think you still can help ,
Find a better way to change yourself ;
A change that’s real and not mere words
Something you can tell your children with pride
And when they ask proof of your teachings one day
make sure you are not as helpless as you are today!
I call it my dream
It’s just this start that I can still feel…
The Rest of it, i call it my Dream
And the Life was same…
In the first visit itself I felt I came to know;
Although the nations had different names,
The philosophy of life all remained the same.
When life speaks to you
Whenever you find sorrows hovering around you,
Just look within the soul and I would always speak to you.”
Despite the darkness
I was astonished to have found this sixth sense of that so called disabled person navigating his way through the crowd…
4 AM and a cup of black tea
“Take this ..” his words attracted my attention again. He was holding an old stainless still glass having uneven surfaces and contours all along its periphery. May be it reflected the wear and tear it had gone through throughout this man’s travel. I saw some vapors coming out of the glass. It was the black tea that he had made on those cinders and residues of the fire. I sipped the tea. It was only hot water, a spoon of sugar and tea powder without any milk. But it tested well.
