Posts

Showing posts from September, 2024

Shades of purple 💜

Have you ever tasted your favourite colour? Then why is it so some colours seems more attractive to us than the others... What is it that makes a colour one's favourite? Let me think, when did I first tasted the colours in the rainbow and why is it that out of all the colours known in the world, why even purple or violet or whatever the eternals call it captured my pupils the most... Maybe it's because the first fruit that I ever encountered in my childhood was the jamun, the juicy fruit might have lured my senses to adore it. And when I saw the sky during dawn, I might have witnessed a purple tint to it. And the night sky before rain would have blurred my eyes with a vision of blue blend with purple and I got a sense of the colour violet as I transpired that moment into my brain. Then coincidentally when I started walking, my mother bought me lilac sandals which gave me the idea of another shade to my pink mixed purple colour.  And slowly as I started growing up, my first trad

"A Red Red Rose... "

Image
Rose, a forever romantic entity isn't it? Artist have always romanticized this flower in their paintings, poetry and decors. I , for a fact first read the meaning of this flower through the aesthetic hindi songs of Kishore kumar and Rafi Sahib. Even the title of this write-up is inspired from the work of Robert Burns. When I edited this picture, isharo pe, isharo pe, dil le gaya song kept on ringing in my mind as a loop.  Why the most romantic flower in the world has got the red blood colour? Have you ever thought about it? Maybe, because it always got hinged with the notion of love and as far as my literature knowledge goes, wherever there's rose, there's life and so there's blood that runs this cycle of life through human veins. Maybe it's because when we are in love, our blood runs hot as our heart beats in and out through the adrenaline rush that blossom within ourselves at the thought of love and this is, this can be why roses are  blood red and it is binded by