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East Vancouver Art Crawl is outpouring into the streets.

Eco City.

Education System

Seems like it has been stirring a lot inside each one of us like we all knew it but never faced it. I agree to disagree with Samir.

The system of education we are validating is a there for standardising our intellectual resource and quick absorption into market place economy.

Coming back to Samir, if remember grandma stories like Panchatantra we had a natural learning systems just like the modern alternative education systems.

If one wished to learn rather than apprentice a craftsmen he or she left to live with a monk. Took their sweet little time to graduate out or their masters decided. These were intellectuals, traders or warriors.

Todays education system dislikes critical thinking and tries to treat humans as a standardise units in a assembly line. Now many of my friends here would defend themselves without suspecting that we might have knowingly given up our potential. We are not aware of the fact that by following yard sticks od standard we are like the fish scientist in a fish tank who thinks the world is cube and never dares to look beyond.

we are not a fish and we are not letting standardisation and testing guide and control our education is giving up our freedom and allowing ourselves to be robots and slaves.

May be it is time we question why are we getting educated like this?

1. May be we want to know and be like a Gora.

2. May be education system borrowed 50 years ago is crumpling.

3. Human resource is the greatest potential resource for any country today, is our government selling secretly by giving its citizens free will.

4. Are we suffering from inferiority complex as a Indian in 21st century we constantly try to do stuff to be equally cool to the 1st world!!

5. Or just trying to catch with world in a frenzy race of progress that we too don't see the problems we face as a resident of this only rock from the sun.

6. Does alternative education like Self Design appeal to designers as the concept of Swaraj does to political science?

Myself on a Fall Afternoon

Theory Of Nothing.

Theory of Everything.

Theory of Everything.

Shubho Bijoya to all my loved ones far and near.

শঙভ িবজ‍্যা্র পূীিত ঙ
শঙেভছছা

The worship of goddess Durga in the autumn is the year's largest
festival in West Bengal, Orissa, Tripura, Assam and other parts of
East India as well as in Bangladesh. Durga Puja is also celebrated in
Nepal and Bhutan according to local traditions and variations. Puja
means "worship," and Durga's Puja is celebrated from the sixth to
tenth day of the waxing moon in the month of Ashshin, which is the
sixth month in the Bengali calendar. Occasionally however, due to
shifts in the lunar cycle relative to the solar months, it may also be
held in the following month, Kartik. In the Gregorian calendar, these
dates correspond to the months of September/October.

The pujas are held over a five-day period, which is traditionally
viewed as the coming of the married daughter, Durga, to her father,
Himalaya's home. It is the most important festival in Bengal, and
Bengalis celebrate with new clothes and other gifts, which are worn on
the evenings when the family goes out to see the pandals (temporary
structures set up to venerate the goddess). Durga Puja in Bengal is a
carnival, where people from all backgrounds, regardless of their
religious beliefs, participate and enjoy themselves to the hilt.
Worship of goddess Durga has now been done all over the world, where
there is a Bengali community.

Shubho Bijoya – these two golden words brings about a wide smile on
every Bengali's face. It is an occasion of tremendous joy and
happiness. The term Bijoya , literally means Victory and Shubho Bijoya
means "The Auspicious Victory". Shubo Bijoya is celebrated from the
last day of Durga Puja, i.e., Vijaya Dashami to Kali Puja (Diwali). It
is celebrated for about a period of one month.When Maa Durga destroyed
the demon Mahishasur in a ten daylong battle, the day was christened
as Vijaya Dashami – the day of victory. This victory is a celebration
of good and end of evil era. Shubho Bijoya is not just a traditional
greeting, but also a way to celebrate the auspicious victory over evil.

Bomb our way to a feminist world.

Yesterday I had to witness two teenage girls on the street I work during my break. They walked calmly past me and before I could realize I heard a loud crashing noise of a window breaking. I noticed the two girls running away into the darkness. The store next door had its display window crack wide open with the guilty lump of concrete bejewelled by bits of glass.

As the video displays the other side of 21st century continued battle of 'feminism'. My question is does media have a sex? Does ignorance have a sex? Does cowardice have a sex? Does toughness have a sex? Does violence have a sex?

The change of Habitat

On the day of the workers around the world I changed my residence from 15th E Ave. to 12th E Ave. As they say in Vancity I made my artistic east van move.

My new Postal Address would be

1875 E 12th Ave.

Vancouver

British Columbia

Canada

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My Snowman and renegade Angela

This is my first snow man ever, and my fellow conspirator is Angela
Gentili making her renegade snow angel.

Snow

A tiny little flake falls from the cloudy womb.
As it floats down to its final bed,
the miniscule life it was granted
it wasted in happiness.
Watched the pellet cousins hail down
while it swirled in fun.
Unknown to its fate
keeps hitching ride on the mod air drifts.
I want to fall
Fall like snow in Vancouver.

CommercialDrive

This is the street I sell falafel ( middle eastern snack of Kabuli
Chana) from a eclectic store Desert. The runs north to south as you
will notice the mountains at the back silhouetted in the evening sky.
Commercial drive has its own life within itself with various
characters and their eclectic ways of living and thinking. Reminds me
of a old Doordarshan TV series called 'Nukkad'. The street constantly
lives in its own bubble. Creating a small town vibe within the big
city of Vancouver.
Gradually i will putting their photos and stories online.

AMI MAMA HOYE GECHI

I am proud mama from the day onwards and I do welcome the newest
member to the clan. I am so happy that I forgave the Aussie cricket
team.

Anumaan Nahi Anubhav

An attempt to reach fellow Indians for a desperate message which might
decide what we may recognize ourselves in the future. The world is
growing state of assumption and assertion as more and more information
becomes free.
My personal journey to understand India has reached far away from it
and yet I repeatedly see it outside me in form of constant diverse
urban centers I have been. So I say this to anyone my age or younger
we still a have time.