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This section reflects my inspirations and moods as my feet and mind travel this amazing planet. Thank you all for the positive response to the earlier editions of Roving Eye.  Enjoy.. If you have something interesting to share, send it to rovingeye.anita@gmail.com
- Anita Ratnam

July 2014


A hoarding of PONNIYIN SELVAN poster
outside the house full shows at the Madras Music Academy


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The best of art, food, culture and travel
for every country




 
For all women.....superb, stirring and disturbing...
Lars Von Trier's NYMPHOMANIAC, Volume 1 and 2.
I could only watch Part 1


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Another viewpoint
about daughters of dark characters






RUPA-PRATIRUPA: The Body in Indian Art curated by Naman P Ahuja
March 12 - June 7, 2014 at National Museum, New Delhi





 
Helmet with chain mail neckguard, approx. 1820-1840
Pakistan - iron overlaid with gold - Kapany Collection
The unusual shape of this rare helmet was dictated by the needs of the Sikh warrior who wore it into battle with his uncut hair rolled into a topknot beneath it.

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Palanquin fittings, approx.1200-1250
Cambodia - Bronze - The Avery Brundage Collection
These fittings decorated portable hammocks
in which nobles were carried
from place to place by bearers


Bodhisattvas, 3rd century AD. From Gandhara region, Pakistan
Collections at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco






The veiled virgin

Freedom of the spell
Marble sculptures by Italian artist Giovanni Strazza of the nineteenth century






Traditional Javanese jewellery





 
 Tree in Tirukrungudi village near Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu...
where the TVS school started in the open air in 1935


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A public sculpture in the
Georgetown area of Washington DC




  
Delightful ad using Tala and 'bols'


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my overstuffed carry on luggage...
on the way home from wherever...


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