My Life as an artist
It would be no exaggeration to say that I have a craze on pencils that dance on papers to render a drawing. I donot remember exactly what made me to start drawing; but, a flash strikes my mind on the first picture I drew. Having a vague memory, I think it is AAndal(The so called Shri Rangam Ranganathar's Lovable beauty). Below the picture of AAndal, I did draw the picture of Kannaki( W/O Kovalan, a character in the epic Silappathigaram). Though my first attempt turned out well, I did not sketch any for a few days. Then I started to show my talent in Biology diagrams, because of which I would become the pet of Biology staff.( In my early days, my mother used to walk to school and complain about the drawing master to himself stating that let him not give any tough diagrams to students, because, the sufferers are the parents ultimately :D). Slowly, the Artist in myself began to grow with so many versions. We had a Krishna Idol at home, which had a very old appearance as the colours on it started showing its own nature. Wow. Now I am a painter. Got some money from elders, ran to a nearby shop which sold paints, got a bunch of colours, got back to home, started painting. 1,,,2,,,,3,,,,,4,,,,5 hours gone and skipped lunch. Wow, In the evening, I said happily, "I learnt painting". I was happy that my part was given in something that turned out an old one into new.
Common; We humans are always geared up when someone praises and I am not spared too. The coming days started with papers and pencils in front of me. And almost in 6th/7th, I had a collection of 70-80 sketches filed. Though I thought myself to give a try on crafts, which became one of my favourites. Slowly, I kept on drawing with no one noticing it and finally I had so many sketches of Lord Krishna in 10th. I still maintain my sketch of Him which I drew before the day of my revision exam.
Below is the one.

Slowly, I managed to become an artist through so many people who inspired me(especially,Artist Sirpi and Artist Padmavasan, Artist Veda - the sketches used to come in Kalki DeepaWali Malar). It was in my college, though my dearest friend Vasugi that I was introduced to pencil sketching. Her father was an Artist and she shared a book that her father had purchased years ago which had beautiful pencil sketches in it. It was the time for me to read about them to tenure myself on the right way. One of the pics from that book, which I managed to draw in a paper is below.

Though, I learnt sketching in various phases, I was a bit happy and satisfied when I drew a picture of Goddess Sri Raja Rajeshwari of Jyoti Peetam, the Peetam formed by my Great Grand Father HH Shiri Shri Satguru Abhayananda Swami. Later in this blog will be published his story.
Given is the sketch that I drew. Of course, I was delighted, excited, satisfied, and..... I had no words with remaining emotions when I saw the face and structure of the Goddess to be as exact as the one in temple. Glad that I had a chance(and I am the first one too) to draw Her sketch.


Later part, is , later.

My first poem when I knew that I will never see someone special in this world

And I could not stop writing - a full geared vehicle is my mind - I would do all at once or nothing at all. I just wanna share this poem that I had written a few years ago during September second week of 2007.I remember this just because of a memory that taught me to learn about life; starting were those days where I missed someone special.. Here goes those lines..

Aadiyai padaitha aathalai manadhil
odhiye panindhenaval padhakamalathai
padhiyile yenairuthi sendralo - venda
gathi avalallal veroruvar enakku


This is one of my very first try to write a Seyyul(a 4 line poem with edugai and monai) in Tamil. Though I could not get Tamil fonts into my system, I will try to post in pure Tamil in future, especially whenever I try to say something in Tamil. The meaning of the poem goes here "I bowed to the Divine Mother who created the first source of this world, Did She leave me and go in the middle? If any shelter is given by someone other than Her, it is the worse one". I have just told about the person in some encrypted format - Person could be either "The Divine Mother" or "My Mother". Of course, the person whom I miss is my mother.

If it comes to My mother the meaning could be taken as follows:

"Adiyay paditha"  means the one who created the Source of Living. In my case it could be the source of my first breath and the source of Light that my mother showed.


I would be waiting for comments from you all...

To my dearest ones,




           Hope I write this when everyone is in pleasure and kind`a happy; coming from a family which is fond of writing, I am not spared too, to get their genes :-). Though I have not practiced writing so far, I ensure that I put up my words to readers so that it goes as imaginations(not sure, though, whether I doubt in my writing). I basically tried writing in my school days, which never turned up fruitful. My first essays and poems were in Tamil, the language that I like the most. Slowly, I have been trying in English to write a few lines, and this is my first ever try. Not sure how many perspectives it may trigger in  - but I will try to make it li'l intersting.
I come from a family which is generally poetic in nature and li'l interesting too. If people spares their time in knowing about the family, then, I would say, best of luck for your bad. (I like li'l self-praise too - may be thats my worse part). I just started this blog to share something about me, my friends, my environment, my brothers, my sisters - everyone; to share about my perspectives, movies, songs, arts, etc etc,.( Thought I would improve my English this way, though, I have noticed it becoming poor these days).
I have given the name 'over the hour' just to see what I could do in a 60 min period of time. So, will shortly publish a few things.. C ya again :-)

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This is my first blog ever. Planning to write so many regarding my craft, painting,poems, photography and the days that pass by; Waiting to post many.... Will see everyone soon,,