A street scene.

This is a new painting of mine.Mixed media on paper.This is a street scene in Trivandrum during the monsoon.You can see a gypsy family crossing the street with their possessions on their head .

Dantoon Seller waiting in the morning chill for customers

'Dantoons' are the tooth brushes used by north Indians traditionally.They are mostly twigs of neem trees or babool trees.Many medicinal properties are attributed to them.

'La-den -La-den'

Here is 'La-den' lumbering up a hillock to enter a village, in search of his adversaries who have encroached on his forestland. :-)

'Laden" downed

"Laden, the elephant was killed at a tea plantation in Sonipur district,240km north of Guwahati on Saterday" say today's news papers.

The Theyyams.

These are the 'theyyams' from north malabar performing their ritualistic dance on the stage at Trivandum at the inaugeration of the Film Festival. The Theyyams are supposed to be the representatives of gods and were seen only in the temples -some thing like the oracle of the ancient Greeks. Theyyams are not 'ancient' for us yet.But they have left the confines of the temples and come to perform for the public and tourists now.Their colourful dress and attractive masks enchant people.

Time to turnround.

LEAVES By C K Williams A pair of red leaves spinning on one another in such wildly erratic patterns over a frozen field it's hard to tell one from another and whether if they were creatures they'd be in combat or courting or just exalting in the tremendousness of their being. Humans can be like that, capricious, aswirl, not often enough in exalting, but courting, yes, and combat; so often in combat, in rancor, in rage, we rarely even remember what error or lie set off this phase of our seeming to have to slaughter. Not leaves then, which after all in their season give themselves to the hammer of winter, become sludge, become muck, become mulch, while we, still seething, broiling, stay as we are, vexation and violence, ax, atom, despair The picture above is of a little boy protesting the killing of his father in a terrorist attack in Bagdad. periodos :-)

Some more from "Painted Canvas"

Cartoonist Sukumar making a point.