Visiting Siddharth Gallary To Observe ,SC Suman's Paintings,Mithila Cosmos ,Songs of Innocence And Experience

27 th January 2019 was special in itself  ,I ran  to observe Mithila Cosmos - Songs of Innocence & Experience, an exhibition of paintings by S.C Suman inaugurated by H.E. Mr. Roland Schafer, the German Ambassador to Nepal on 23rd January 2019 at Siddhartha Art Gallery.As many as 29 artworks of Suman  showcased in the show titled ‘Mithila Cosmos: Songs of Innocence and Experience’.The moment was pleasant to see and analyze the paintings .Mithila art, its several motifs and its paintings are decoded there.Suman works in the tradition of Mithila or Madhubani painting, born out of the rich history of the Maithili speaking regions of Nepal and India. 

The art form’s signature style is exemplified by the spellbinding intricacies of geometric patterns, leaving little space untouched. The paintings are organic, using twigs, brushes and fingers with natural dyes.The bright colours, repetitive patterns, exaggerated side profiles, florals, stylised birds and animals, and a frolicking Krishna at play spying on bathing gopinis do not elide into people’s preconceived notions of “fine” drawing. While the art of the Mithila Cosmos  has the capacity to transcend its origins, utilising all of its formal constrictions in creating playful, truly lovely works that can make the heart soar.Much has been written about the art form – the fact that it was first practiced only by women, that no part of the canvas is left blank, that the paintings depict nature, Gods and demi-Gods, that they are ritualistic in nature and still form an important part of festivals and ceremonies like marriages; is common knowledge. 

As history has it, in 1934, the state of Bihar suffered from a massive earthquake. A British officer, Willain Archer, was inspecting the damage caused by the quake in Madhubani district when he chanced upon the paintings on the interior walls of the dilapidated homes. He took some of the earliest known photos of the works in black and white. Later in 1949 he published an article on the paintings in the Indian art journal, Marg, which brought the paintings into the public eye. Later, Archer was to become the South Asia Curator at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. It took another natural disaster, a severe drought in the 1960s, that inspired the transition of the paintings from the walls of the homes onto paper, wheen the All India Handicrafts Board encouraged the women to create these paintings for sale.

The paintings presented titled ‘Mithila Cosmos: Songs of Innocence and Experience’.Kirtipur ,Pashupatinath,Guhyeswari ,Vishnumati,Swyambhu,Dashavatar ,Banyan Tree,Devi Swaraswati with motifs ,colors and symbols.The paintings are traditionally based on mythological, folk themes and pastoral symbols. The central themes of most paintings are love, valor, devotion and fertility, though the approach may vary. So it is common to find scenes of courtship and marriages and symbols of fertility and prosperity like fish, parrot, elephant, turtle, sun, moon, bamboo tree, lotus, etc. in prominence. 

The divine beings are positioned centrally in the frame while their consorts and floral motifs form the background.  A variety of inventive patterns are made with hatching and stippling. Even now during birth and marriage ceremonies paintings are made on walls with different symbols like bamboo (lineage,) lotus, and fish as seen in paintings . The designs announce the occasion of the celebration and solicit good fortune and divine blessings.

His painting  Kalpavriksha relates Hindu Mythology  and use of elephant as part of nature give the paintings more meanings.Suman painted  birds perched on a tree ,elephants as beasts ,men and women celebrating chhat .Even Krishna and Durga are included in visual narratives which denote that Mithila Cosmos is deeply rooted in rituals that pay obeisance to nature.Songs of Innocence And Experience is a continuation of exploration of nature and the environment , themes of death and life ,philosophy of Karma .I just loved the ideas presented in paintings.

Glimpse Of A Day ,Notes As Part of Travel

Tourism has been fascination to all as cultural marker .You can review PMO India tweets and other related tourist sector development with political articulations in Odisha in the age of computer and capitalistic culture with globalization and technological digitalizatition.This is the age of a skillful mix of history, reportage, memoir and travelogue,in the journalistic trenches, mourning the shrinking and shuttering of newspapers and magazines, bemoaning declining salaries and freelance rates, jawing about the elusive new business model that will somehow reverse all these trends.

Yesteday whole day I spent in Sanothimi Bhaktapur locations and the beautiful scenery cannot be forgotten at all.I just visited SOS Children Village area.SOS Children’s Village Sanothimi is the first Children’s Village in Nepal established in 1972. It is situated just the outskirts of the Kathmandu city and the western border of the Bhaktapur district, about 15 minutes’ drive from the Tribhuvan International Airport. Although it is close to the city, it is away from everyday hustle and bustle of the city life. Near the Village flows the Manohara River separating two districts Kathmandu and Bhaktapur.After visiting the locations I reached to Tribhuvan University ,it is the most favorite place for me as it  has gravity to attract our heart .I reached to the canteen locations where most of the students were fascinated with aaloo tama.I just gave the order to have it too.Aloo Bodi Tama is a Nepali curry with bamboo-shoot, potatoes, and black-eyed peas. Naturally vegan, gluten-free, aloo bodi tama makes a great side with plain rice ( or any other grains such as quinoa, couscous, freekeh)  or can be enjoyed by itself as a hearty stew.

I reached to library where students were discussing lots of novels with authors .There’s no question that getting a book as a present is great no matter what the title or when it happens. But what about those books that we’re given that are so special they alter the course of our lives in some way or change the way we think about the world?I just saw the crowd were busy with books my work was to have a look only and return to home with the conceptual framework of reading  as these libraries and librarians play a vital role in supporting students to become engaged readers. They are the ones that come to meetings/gatherings to listen in. They’re usually open to ideas, exchanging information, helpful, impressionable and actually hear things you might be saying (reason you have to stop saying vague things you’ve been saying all your life). They want to know you, your book, as well as how you wrote it. They have a lot of questions and are open to ideas.

Anyway my journey from Sanothimi Bhakatapur revealed as  a beautiful experience .Traveling promotes happiness and helps you take your mind off stressful situations. This leads to lower cortisol levels, making you feel more calm and content.It opens your eyes on what is really true and what really matters. It inspires you, shows you how to be a better person and how to improve your life. You start asking yourself big and important questions and opening your mind to new ideas.Traveling allows you to separate yourself from the past and learn to let go of painful memories.There is something extremely special and unique about sharing your life with strangers from all over the World. Every traveler has a story to tell and a lesson to give you. And some of them stay with you forever, deep in your heart, even if you are not together any more.So,this is the best way to explore own life.ravel is the way to know other people’s culture very much easily. All of us wants to know each and every culture, this is the nature of every human. Without travelling, it is not possible to know other people’s culture. We have to travel outside our city, state or even country to know their own culture. How they eat, wear clothes, enjoy festivals and so on.

Besides essential food, most of people love to eat new food items during their travelling to a new destination. I have seen lots of travelers whose only aim to search and eat popular food items in the host city/state/country. Each and every city has their own unique food recipes. So, travelling is the most important way to taste your favorite food.Nepalese dishes are generally healthier than most other South Asian cuisine, relying less on using fats and more on chunky vegetables, lean meats, pickled ingredients and salads. Whilst Nepal does take heavy influences from its closest geographical companions such as India ,China and Tibet  this mountainous country only opened up its borders to outsiders in the 1950s. This factor, in addition to transport and trade difficulties Nepal’s geographical setting, has maintained a focus on using locally grown produce.Daal-bhaat-tarkari is eaten twice, if not at least once everyday in most households. However, remember that Nepal is a diverse country and depending upon the region you are from, your staple could be barley, meat, or potatoes. Tourism is the largest source of foreign income as the stats clearly shows that more than 40 % of the country’s eight hundred thousand visitors traveled for trekking and tours.

Tourism can be a huge source of income for us. If we can bring in at least 20 million tourists every year, that will automatically raise our living standard to that of some Southeast Asian countries.Currently, we barely manage to receive 1 million tourists. When you compare that with the world’s tourist destinations, that’s peanuts - simply pathetic.France (82.6 million), USA (75.6 million), Spain (75.6 million), China (59.3 million), Italy (52.4 million), UK (35.8 million), Germany (35.6 million), Mexico (35 million), Thailand (32.6 million), Austria (28.1 million).Every Southeast Asian country receives more than 10 million tourists each year. Every country in the Middle East receive more tourists than us.Nepal has the potential to attract as many tourists as Malaysia (26.8 million), Hong Kong (26.6 million), Singapore (12.9 million) and Indonesia (12 million). But where are we going wrong. We have 10 of the world’s highest mountain peaks in the world. We have some of the most beautiful destinations. We have the birthplace of Buddha (which alone can attract millions of tourists).

Moon ,Sun, And Mechanism Of Social Relations

I just opened my laptop and youtube sang of power relations for long period with several meanings.The idea of power seems widespread, but in some scholarly circles especially in the social sciences, it is a word that is highly ambiguous with more connotation than real meaning.Power relations are relationships in which one person has social-formative power over another, and is able to get the other person to do what they wish (whether by compelling obedience or in some less compulsive and even a more subtle way.I asked my momma about the  existence of moon and sun .She started the relationship of moon and sun with mechanism.Both the sun and the moon serve as bases for systems of time measurement. The moon is the Earth’s only natural satellite and is the basis of the month on modern calendars. The moon takes 27.3 days to fully rotate around the earth. The sun, around which the Earth orbits, is the basis of the calendar year and day. The sun itself rotates within a period of about 25 days.

I was surprised and started google serfing about mechanics.The adjective‘social’ is redundant. Accordingly, computational mechanisms of interaction are conceived of as a special category of mechanisms of interaction that is character-ized by a specific allocation of functionality between human actors and artifact.The purpose of networking sites is to let users organize their network connections (by creating profiles and linking to profiles of others), discovering new possible ties in the process and recovering connections to old-time friends or other relations. The functionality imitates the local search process of real social networks (by letting users browse the friendship network) and relies on the high clustering of social networks (the friends of our friends are likely to be friends as well). The importance of social relationships alone suggests that they should be treated on the first-order. Social relations are (mostly binary) predicates, their instances being the concrete relations among the participants of the relationship. Social relations are also socially-constructed objects in the sense of Masolo et al. Much like social roles, social relationships have a strong contextual dependence in that they own their definition (the ability to identify them) to the social context in which they are interpretable.

Salko Pat Tapari ,Lazy Bone And Sleep

Salko pat tapari the song reminds me many things .The lyrics is owesome I never feel so happy when the colorful and smiling faces make the song or make me crazy like the river flow where I swim like a fish.I know whole day I kept on serfing about google translation of Salko Tapari  by Bishnu Majhi but it gave the translation leaf of years as English translated terminology.Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.I saw the sentence written about efficiency of Google and stopped searching engine.

I ran to youtube version of song and did many attempts to understand value of such lyrics with the phonemes or rhymes.Rhyming is a helpful first step toward phonemic awareness. When children play with rhymes, they listen to the sounds within words and identify word parts. For example, the /at/ sound in the word mat is the same /at/ sound in cat, rat, sat, and splat. Children typically learn to recognize rhyming words first and generate their own rhymes later. It is important to recognize that these skills are not always learned on a schedule. For some children, recognizing rhyme can be difficult. 

Similarly google teacher updated me about phonemes as any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat.Then I got worried about folk song of Nepal,everyone knows my madness has reached to extreme level .Now I feel relaxed to sleep with my pillow where my black colored acer laptop on the bed made of local wood of Nawalparasi forest and pillow makes me comfortable to understand value of New York Times magazine as critic.The New York Times  is an American based ,worldwide influence and readership.The New York Times was founded as the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851.

Of course lots of stuffs never paved to learning fast or slow.But when a statement cracks my mind like a pendulum I always prefer to sleep for hours to understand the terms as lazy bone.Lazy bone is my nickname at home ,many people know lazy bone cannot be changed ,a big cup of tea and bed are the partners of Lazy bone . If you google or ask your google brother or youtube sister and gmail uncle why you never give my correct definition, they collectively show point to google scholar aunt who keeps on calling me with her recipe of journals around the world. Lazy means disinclined to activity or exertion : not energetic or vigorous,I searched synonyms and antonyms I saw there multiple siblings google brother refers to me.I said ,my dear brother please forgive this lazy bone sister and derive the ideas around in sunny day of January 2018.

Denija sister as elder sister singing the song with her red tower .Her mom kept on teasing her but she sang the rhymes to me and I noted down the lyrics as mentioned below,

Ring-a-ring o’ roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo, a-tishoo!
We all fall down.

Mummy in the teapot,
Daddy in the cup,
Baby in the saucer,
We all jump up.

Ring-a-ring o’ roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo, a-tishoo!
We all fall down.

The cows are in the meadow,
Eating buttercups,
A-tishoo, a-tishoo!
We all jump up.

Denija sister at the age of two has the correct knowledge of phonemes and I lazy bone with my tired eyes just winks at her with smile .I know google brother has been pointing google scholar aunt with her American flavored journals which are fabric and tastier but I again lament to sleep in the warmness of sun.

Sleep is an important part of your daily routine—you spend about one-third of your time doing it.  Quality sleep – and getting enough of it at the right times -- is as essential to survival as food and water.  Without sleep you can’t form or maintain the pathways in your brain that let you learn and create new memories, and it’s harder to concentrate and respond quickly.

Sleep is important to a number of brain functions, including how nerve cells (neurons) communicate with each other.  In fact, your brain and body stay remarkably active while you sleep.  Recent findings suggest that sleep plays a housekeeping role that removes toxins in your brain that build up while you are awake. 

Everyone needs sleep, but its biological purpose remains a mystery.  Sleep affects almost every type of tissue and system in the body – from the brain, heart, and lungs to metabolism, immune function, mood, and disease resistance.  Research shows that a chronic lack of sleep, or getting poor quality sleep, increases the risk of disorders including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, and obesity.

The hypothalamus, a peanut-sized structure deep inside the brain, contains groups of nerve cells that act as control centers affecting sleep and arousal.  Within the hypothalamus is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) – clusters of thousands of cells that receive information about light exposure directly from the eyes and control your behavioral rhythm.  Some people with damage to the SCN sleep erratically throughout the day because they are not able to match their circadian rhythms with the light-dark cycle.  Most blind people maintain some ability to sense light and are able to modify their sleep/wake cycle.

 The brain stem, at the base of the brain, communicates with the hypothalamus to control the transitions between wake and sleep.  (The brain stem includes structures called the pons, medulla, and midbrain.)  Sleep-promoting cells within the hypothalamus and the brain stem produce a brain chemical called GABA, which acts to reduce the activity of arousal centers in the hypothalamus and the brain stem.  The brain stem (especially the pons and medulla) also plays a special role in REM sleep; it sends signals to relax muscles essential for body posture and limb movements, so that we don’t act out our dreams.

The thalamus acts as a relay for information from the senses to the cerebral cortex (the covering of the brain that interprets and processes information from short- to long-term memory).  During most stages of sleep, the thalamus becomes quiet, letting you tune out the external world.  But during REM sleep, the thalamus is active, sending the cortex images, sounds, and other sensations that fill our dreams. 

The pineal gland, located within the brain’s two hemispheres, receives signals from the SCN and increases production of the hormone melatonin, which helps put you to sleep once the lights go down.  People who have lost their sight and cannot coordinate their natural wake-sleep cycle using natural light can stabilize their sleep patterns by taking small amounts of melatonin at the same time each day.  Scientists believe that peaks and valleys of melatonin over time are important for matching the body’s circadian rhythm to the external cycle of light and darkness.

The basal forebrain, near the front and bottom of the brain, also promotes sleep and wakefulness, while part of the midbrain acts as an arousal system.  Release of adenosine (a chemical by-product of cellular energy consumption) from cells in the basal forebrain and probably other regions supports your sleep drive.  Caffeine counteracts sleepiness by blocking the actions of adenosine.

After reading benefits with books available on bookself near the laptop corner on my bed I have decided to have a through knowledge of my brain whether something device can be fit to avoid my laziness so that I can sing Salko Tapari with lyrics,rhyme,phonemes and enjoy January of 2019.