Shape Of Things To Come

      During the course of this year’s Summer and Fall, this blog has seen posts mostly about flowers and leaves. Now that they are gone, may be I should blog about branches now So here is a snippet of a branch from a painting I made long back.

  Magnolia Branch

      Jokes apart, with the changing seasons and landscapes, its time to change the gears of this blog to a different category. Going by the comments on this blog, I find that different people respond to different categories. Some respond to only paintings, some to only photos and then there are those who notice only the writing. They are blind to the images! Guess each one is attracted to what interests him the most. But if there is one category that evokes a response from all, then it is writings from my book!  That is such a relief. Last year when I released the synopsis of my book, on a single day this blog got 224 hits!

      So now its time to please everyone i.e. time to release one more short story from my book. Its time to keep the promise I made earlier. Also as per a promise I made to myself, its time to air out some of my architectural projects, on this blog. So with the changing seasons, the gears of this blog will change into the categories of Ratna’s Book,  Architecture and writing related to it. Given below is the time schedule, which tells you about the shape of things to come:

Time………………………………………..Category………………………………….Title/ Content

Nov.25.2008…………………………..Ratna’s Book…………………………….Passengers Of Fate (a short story)

Nov.26 till Dec.’08 end………….None…………………………………….. There will be no posts during this time as I shall only receive comments on the story during this time.

Jan.2009……………………………………Ratna’s Book…………………………..A Story For Bollywood ( this post will be about how the story can be adapted into a beautifully sensitive film by Bollywood).

Jan.2009……………………………………Architecture/ Writing……………….Hunt for A Nursery School

Feb.2009…………………………………..Architecture……………………………Programming for a Nursery School

Feb.2009…………………………………..Architecture……………………………Nursery School Design

March 2009……………………………….Architecture/ Writing……………….Green  

March 2009………………………………Architecture…………………………….Green – T.V. Factory Design

April 2009………………………………..Architecture/ Writing………………..Innovation in Architectural Design

April 2009………………………………..Architecture…………………………….Group Housing Design

May 2009…………………………………Architecture/ Writing………………..Fusing East and West in Architecture

May 2009…………………………………Architecture…………………………….Design For a Multi-Purpose Arena

June 2009………………………………..Gardening………………………………..Back to Roses!!

      So spread the word about the release of the next story on November 25th, 2008 and spread the joy. Remember greater the response, earlier the book will get published! With this I wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving, a Wonderful holiday season in December and a Happy New Year, 2009.

Ratna

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      Painters, writers, singers, actors, dancers, film-makers, musicians are meant to fly, to push at the frontiers, to worry the edges of the human imagination, to conjure beauty from the most unexpected things, to find magic in places where others never thought to look. If you limit the trajectory of their flight, if you weigh their wings with society’s existing notions of morality and responsibility, if you truss them up with preconceived values, you subvert their endeavor.

- Arundhati Roy (From: Power Politics)