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80Astrology: How does it work?
Do the stars control our activities? Do the planets decide what we wear, whom we marry, what job we do and when to call it ‘The End’? That’s what astrology says, and sounds good if you are a fatalist. If you are not; if you are a creature of...
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63Suriyan - an Indian Super-Hero
Why is the world still dependent on Petroleum? We had known for more than a century that petroleum resources are fast depleting and other sources have to be adopted fast. An alien from another galaxy would think that we aren't really serious about...
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61Basic Composition for Newbie Artists and Photographers – 2
Using a simple diagonal gives dynamism to any picture. This is the easiest trick a newbie can use and it can be done right at the shooting stage for photographers. Look at the pictures below for examples of a simple diagonal. For a painting or...
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66Basic Composition for Newbie Artists and Photographers – 1
Have you seen the grid on the right? It’s there as an option on your Digital Camera screen, and it’s thrust upon you in most classes on Composition by Those Who Follow the Rules. It’s called the Rule of Thirds. The concept is simple. An...
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65Neelakshi: the graphic novel
Neelakshi is our new graphic novel project, the realization of the dreams of two comic book fans. Magic comes from magic. One of the oldest stories in Hindu mythology is the churning of the ocean of milk. Gods and demons churned that ocean in the...
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58Wordsworth, Browning & Rao
For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. Daffodils don’t flash upon my inward eye, when...
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63Tennyson’s Excursions into Onomatopoeia
THE EAGLE By Alfred, Lord Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt...
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62What is a Paraprosdokian?
This funny sounding word is a figure of speech and a literary device used by many humourists. Translates loosely to ‘unexpected’. If the beginning of a sentence causes the reader or listener to expect something and the end comes as a surprise,...
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50What are Malaprops?
Mrs Malaprop, a character in in Richard Sheridan’s play The Rivals, gave us such gems as, “Oh, there’s nothing to be hoped for from her! She’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”...
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72The Art of Comics & Graphic Novels
I have been drawing comics for decades. This hub came from a talk on Graphic Novels I gave at the premises of the local British Council Library,on the occasion of a nationwide exhibition of Graphic Novels.
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