The Compedium | Ieclectica

Jul 31
3 min

Move aside ‘Indian Matchmaking’, make way for ‘Love on the Spectrum’

I only understand work that helps human-beings become a better lot. This is why ‘Love on the spectrum’ is instrumental.

Jul 24
2 min

The Great Debt we pay - A year in Lockdown - 2020

Where are those peaks, snowclad and majestic? where are those skies, blue and deep? where are those rivers, robust and white? where are t...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Jul 3
1 min

Leonard Cohen's 'Happens to the Heart' guides towards liberation

Leonard Cohen’s ‘Happens to the heart’ is a moving composition that takes you through a journey.

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Deboshree Ghosh

May 19
4 min

Instrumental Compositions – An antidote for the distressed ‘quarantine time’

we have chosen some interesting instrumental music that might help you, readers, with silencing the crazy cuckoo residing in the mind.

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Deboshree Ghosh

May 15
5 min

Mike Esperanza: I’ve always valued the architecture of ‘form’ through the lens.

It’s never really about the stature. Movement is such a big part of what my aesthetics are.

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Deboshree Ghosh

Apr 27
4 min

Kim Kardashian’s Cultural Appropriation brouhaha – who is responsible?

Do we just keep shouting ‘free speech’ and ‘freedom of expression’ or ‘censor this’ and ‘censor that’

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Deboshree Ghosh

Apr 23
1 min

This ‘Man and Woman’ sculpture helps realize ‘impermanence’

Ali and Nino are reminders of the fact that everything comes with the caveat of impermanence.

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Deboshree Ghosh

Apr 22
4 min

Divya Bhatia: An illustrator must be very observant

The ongoing pandemic is testimony to the fact that when in isolation during a crisis, it’s ‘art’ and ‘artists’ who come to the rescue.

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Manoj Kumar

Apr 18
3 min

I am an Hermès Birkin Bag

Only mass-produced products made in vast mindless factories can be chosen but Art chooses its owner, Art chooses who it wants to be with.

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Manoj Kumar

Apr 9
4 min

Goat days by Benyamin - Book Review

A few hours later Najeeb lands in Riyadh and is eagerly waiting for his sponsor outside the airport. And I believe this is the point in the

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Manoj Kumar

Apr 8
1 min

Street art from the suburbs of Mumbai

Behind its smoggy veil though, There is rice and pav for one and all, there is hunger and exploitation also in the midst of it all,

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Deboshree Ghosh

Mar 31
1 min

The Hamster Wheel

The green note - A trap, a malicious fuel, for creating more desire, a fake Utopian quagmire, deceptive hierarchies & egotistical positio...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Feb 17
2 min

A poem for the ‘Shunned’ – What You Need to be Warm by Neil Gaiman

While we ensconce ourselves in our comfortable havens, there are people out there who shiver under the night sky and depend on crumbs for...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Jan 5
3 min

Art Therapy Exercise: What Am I?

The game of survival can get pretty daunting at times. The unyielding clouds of monotony and novelty hang over us like a dagger, making u...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Jan 3
3 min

Stories from Art: Coffee and Chaos – inspired by Edward Hopper’s Nighthawk

He waited with bated breath, sliding his fingers impatiently on the dial of his watch. The sweet scent of the jasmine flowers arranged ne...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Dec 4, 2019
3 min

Good cop, Bad cop!

He sat there pondering about the complexities of life, seeking solace in all that murk and dirt around him – from the grey grease-stained...

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Manoj Kumar

Dec 2, 2019
5 min

A dialogue in the mind of a drug addict by Albert Besnard, 1887

Albert Besnard (French, 1849 – 1934). The Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), 1887. Etching on Japan vellum paper. Open Access Image from t...

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Manoj Kumar

Nov 30, 2019
3 min

Domestic Violence and Alcoholism – George Bellows’ realistic 1924 Lithograph

The Drunk and Domestic Violence by George Bellows, 1923/1924. PC – http://bit.ly/drunkenviolence The drunk man is a lithograph by George ...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Nov 26, 2019
3 min

Antidote for Mid-week Blues: Poetry by Rumi and some Enchanting Art

Mid- week blues can really bog some of us down. The fabric of time keeps stretching and existential questions pave their way surreptitiou...

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Deboshree Ghosh

Nov 22, 2019
5 min

The Comforting Touch – A Fictional Story

Picture Credit: Biswaranjan Rout/AP https://www.npr.org The Mumbai local trains have always been a consistent fount of entertainment. The...

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