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TREASURES

These are compilations that I put together every once in a while, of things that I have found to be beautiful and meaningful.

Treasures – 44

Tribute to Bill Watterson , the wise cartoonist who created Calvin & Hobbes

Treasures – 43

One Pager Collection : It is a compilation of ten text passages that have touched me very deeply and have stayed with me for many many years – hope you also find some of them meaningful.

Treasures – 42

  • An illustration by Peter deSeve
  • An excerpt from the book by the great biologist and philosopher EO Wilson
  • A film on ‘ rainforest restoration’ – work in Anamalais by Nature Conservation Foundation

Treasures – 41

  • Baghabana Dev – By Venkat Raman Singh Shyam
  • Guiding Principles of Farnam Street
  • ‘The Dawn Wall’ – The incredible free climb story

Treasures – 40

  • A family – By Saul Steinberg
  • 2 poems – By Akhil Katyal
  • Khadees – By Iqra Khilji

Treasures – 39

  • Humped bull : A figurine from Harappan period
  • Some pearls of wisdom from Naval Ravikant
  • ‘Advice’ on how to age gracefully by CBC Radio

Treasures – 38

  • Karina Nebula
  • ‘Kaam bhala’ by Piyush Mishra
  • ‘Scale model of solar system’

Treasures – 37

  • Scene in life of india – By Miranda
  • Nissiem Ezekiel on Miranda
  • Bach Cell Suite 1 – New look

Treasures – 36

  • Bowthorpe Oak
  • Life lessons by Sam Altman
  • Pratap Bhanu Mehta interviews Dr. Guha

Treasures – 35

  • Liittle dancer – By Degas
  • Work you love – Paul Graham
  • Blue in Green – Miles Davis

Treasures – 34

  • Bicycle By Mathias Broda
  • Poem by Tony Hoagland
  • Spanish Movie – Mondays in the Sun

Treasures – 33

  • Emperor of India Butterfly
  • Beautiful work – By Ron Berger
  • Exclusive may not mean better – Zadie Smith

Treasures – 32

  • Black – By Rothko
  • Somebody to nobody – Osho
  • Hendel by Anne Queffelec

Treasures – 31

  • Nine boats – By Kenna
  • Art of doing nothing – Hanna Greenberg
  • Lambi judai – By Komal Rizvi

Treasures – 30

  • Building worker – By Alan Wilson
  • Commencemet speech by Wade Davis
  • Tribute to Hitchens – By Laurence Krauss

Treasures – 29

  • Siene near Giverny – Monet
  • Kindergarten lessons – Fulghum
  • Blue note – A Jazz collection

Treasures – 28

  • Four immortal characters
  • Steve Jobs on his legacy
  • Rahul Deshpande sings Kabir

Treasures – 27

  • The Dog – by Picasso
  • Steven Fry to his younger self
  • Money changes us – Dan Ariely

Treasures – 26

  • Moonrise – Geraint Smith
  • Ten rules of fiction righting
  • Hunger – By Hugh MacLeod

Treasures – 25

  • Danaid by Rodin
  • The Mother – On Living
  • Existential bummer – Jason Silva

Treasures – 24

  • Close up of Starry Night
  • Testament – By Wendell Berry
  • Venus – The movie

Treasures – 23

  • A field chapel by Peter Zumthor
  • Jung on ‘Development’
  • Raag Marwa by Pt. Jasraj

Treasures – 22

  • Camouflage epitomized
  • Dr.Ganesh Devy on Masasweta Devi
  • Anand Gandhi – Interview

Treasures – 21

  • V S Gaitonde
  • Letter to a young poet by Rilke
  • Moonlight – Claude Debussy

Treasures – 20

  • ‘The Dog’ by Giacometti
  • Solving for pattern – Wendell Berry
  • Steven Pinker on human nature

Treasures – 19

  • Calligraphy by BG Limaye
  • Raghava Menon on Kumar Gandharva
  • Traveller – by Anoushka Shankar

Treasures – 18

  • Snow storm – by JMW Turner
  • Capabilities approach – Nussbaum
  • Schama film on Rothko

Treasures – 17

  • Police man by Calder
  • Roger Ebert on ‘death’
  • Invictus the poem
  • Lekin – by Hridaynath Mangeshkar

Treasures – 16

  • Painting by Rahul Inamdar
  • Cultivaring Humanity – Nussbaum
  • Talk by Dr. Abhay Bang

Treasures – 15

  • Sky mirror – By Anish Kapoor
  • Composed – By Rosanne Cash
  • Robin Williams – Interview cum performance

Treasures – 14

  • Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry
  • Eric Fromm – On what’s wrong with us
  • The Kabir Project – Shabnam Virani

Treasures – 13

  • Ancient Sound – Paul Klee
  • Propose of literature – Llosa
  • Places you will go – Dr. Seuss

Treasures – 12

  • Longing – By Prabuddha Dasgupta
  • War of Art – Pressfield
  • Kaushiki Chakraborti and Pushar Lele

Treasures – 11

  • Kumar by Vishnu Chinchalkar
  • The Holstee Manifesto
  • Letter by Anais Nin

Treasures – 10

  • Metascape – By Akbar Padamsee
  • If – By Rudyard Kipling
  • Tribute to Comdrade Chavan – Dr Guha

Treasures – 9

  • Marginals by Segio Aragones
  • The high price of materialism – Ryan
  • Celebrate Humanity – Sydney Olympics

Treasures – 8

  • Bonnelli’s Eagle – By Niranjan Sant
  • From Autobiography – Bertrand Russel
  • Poem by Ramya Pandyan
  • Interview of Kumar Gandharva

Treasures – 7

  • Autumn Rhythm – Jackson Pollock
  • On birding – Aasheesh Pittie
  • Wad Davis on shared human heritage

Treasures – 6

  • ‘The Poet’ – By Ramkinkar Baij
  • Will to lead – Koestenbaum
  • Mehdi Hassan – A compilation

Treasures – 5

  • Montmartre at Night : By Pissarro
  • Andrew Wiles documentary
  • Except from ‘The Fointainhead’

Treasures – 4

  • Bird in space – Brancussi
  • Eulogy for Tversky – Kahneman
  • Raaga Samay Chakra

Treasures – 3

  • Don Quixote by Picasso
  • Worlds of M Krishan – By Dr Guha
  • Movie – The Worlds Fastest Indian

Treasures – 1

  • Fallingwater – by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Abraham Lincoln – Letter to teacher
  • Why we travel – Pico Iyer

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