Durga Puja - Bhubaneswar

Well after the sudden orders from the institute to retreat back to our homes, I was given the opportunity to enjoy the puja back at home after 3-4 years.
Well lemme give you a glimpse of the celebration here at Bhubaneswar. [1 thing : the pics were taken by a normal VGA Camera :(]



Although simple, this was one of the best works. Odisha is famous for this pandels. No doubt !


One huge masterpiece. The best part of this pandal is the tribal playing dhols and flutes at the gate.


The tribals playing the instruments making the surrounding even more festive.


This is another huge one @ Nayapalli. Hats off to the people who dared make it this huge.


This is the best one, entirely made out of floor mats. These people can be real imaginative.


A closeup of the entrance. This is all I could manage in the push and pull of the crowd.

Apart from all these there were a large number of pandals which we couldnt cover due to time constraints. Another thing which I should highlight is the melas rather the village fairs which were adjacent to the pandals. They added to the festive mood. [ I could not take pictures of them due to the VGA Cam :( ]

Neways it was fun out here watching all this. Although, I do miss the celebration back at my college. We had planned a lot for this time puja but the attack of jaundice back in our college forced us all to leave. I miss the joy of organising and being an integral part of the Puja

Durga Puja Notice 2

This was the poster that I designed as the poster for the Durga Puja. Some things which I think can be made a note of are

• BACKGROUND & THEME : At first you should be able to choose a good background and theme. A good background completes half of your task. While choosing or preparing your background make sure you dont have too many colours and designs in it. In that case it becomes difficult to write the text distinctly.Not to mention it should go with your theme.
  

• FONTS : Next make sure you choose your  fonts for a poster. Too many makes it more clumsy and scrappy. On the other hand very less makes it look more official.

• IMAGES : This step is very important. In this step you are supposed to choose icons or some images to put in your poster to make it lively. Make sure you choose the right pictures. I would advice you to go to flickr or photobucket or any image hosting sites which offer good quality images (essentials you have a lot of professional photographers posting their photos there). You should also take care of the border of the photos. They do play an important role in deciding the final look of the poster.

• SELECTION OF COLORS : You should choose yours colors from the images you are using. That brings out a feeling of blending into the theme of your poster

• PLACEMENT : Last but not the least is the proper placement of all the elements that you plan to put on your poster. It should highlight the important things in your poster. Like in my poster i wanted to high light the Specials in my poster not at the cost of Puja timings, so I used icons or pics to highlight the Specials.

It all depends on you , how you place, how you plan and how you execute.

Indian Railways change .... please

Well a very crude idea that i came up with during my recent nightmare with my travel in the general compartment of Indian railways from Vasco in Goa to Bhubaneswar in Odisha. No doubt there were thoughts about time travel and teleportation during the painful travel, I would like the following ideas to be highlighted, which can be implemented.

• The body of the train should be changed to something lighter and tougher which would increase the speeds manifold
  
• The number of general tickets should not exceed the number of available seats. It becomes a musical chair circus in the other case.
• The general compartments should be properly cleaned and the supply of water should be ensured.
• Further the introduction of aerodynamic structure which would decrease the weight of the train on rails should be implemented. (this appealed the most to me)
• Lastly it should be awesome :P (really don't know how

Nevertheless i enjoyed my first long distance (nearly 36 hrs) journey in a general compartment of a pantry-less Amaravati Express....

I will soon be posting some of the pictures which i took....

Dunno why

Hmmmm

I dunt know y but I am the way I am. Some times in life things seem so different when seen from the point of view of different people. A success to someone seems a failure for some one else. Yet the whole world is always stable and balanced. I think rather that s why its more balanced and stable. The divesity in thoughts and actions brings it all together and keeps it attached.

Sometimes your life may seem bad and crapy to u.....I dunno y but why not for a moment take a moment and see it from another person's point of view. A point of view that makes your life more worthy, more beautiful, more fruitful, above all more valuable. All of a sudden you might feel your life and the world around you so charming and welcoming that you would like take a step ahead make it even better and beautiful. Its all in the mind and its all your thoughts which bring in all difference in your life. The whole point of your life is to make it more beautiful and enjoyable. So its you who is guiding your life.

Tickle yourself, talk to yourself, crack jokes on yourself and yes once in a while do see yourself. After all you are the architect of yourself, so that way you should have a look at your sculpture once in a while. :P