PPT: Calligraphy: Textual to Contextual

Taj Mahal Painting worth Rs 5cr at Trade Fair

A Taj Mahal miniature painting worth rupees 5cr at India International Trade Fair 2011 (IITF 2011) is the major attraction.

A london based business man has offered 5cr rupees to buy this painting.
Rajasthan govt decided Rs 1 crore as the value of the painting. "The value of the painting may even touch Rs 20 crore in some countries. The painting has also been selected for a national award.

The painting is charmed by Taj Mahal's popularity, beauty and the finest art work. This painting of Tajmahal shows everything about it from its foundation to establishment.
Why so Famous?

• Size: 20 X 24 inch painting.
• 4 lakh human figures. (kings, ministers, armies)
• 2 lakh elephants and riders.
• 50 thousand miniature Taj Mahals and other monuments.

To have a good view of the painting lense has been provided which gives the clear view of every small details.  This painting tell the story of the construction of the Taj Mahal. It begins with the burial of Mumtaz Mahal and ends with Shah Jahan, imprisoned at the Red Fort (Agra), looking at the Taj Mahal with his daughter Jahanara through the window. The retelling of this part of Mughal history covers the construction of the Taj - the gathering of stone, the increase in taxes to fund construction as well as the rebellion of Shah Jahan's sons.

This piece of amazing arts has been created by artist Naveen Sharma of Jaipur.

Painter Navin Sharma in the centre

Making of the Painting
It took him more than four years to complete this painting. To plan this painting he took one year.

Sharma began work on the painting in 2006 and finished in October 2010.

For the painting Sharma has used wasli - handmade paper - and a brush he makes himself. "It's made of wood and squirrel hair," he says. He wets the brush with spit and draws attention to the single strand that is longer than the rest and sticks out. "It's with this one hair that I did most of the painting," he explains.


The most noticeable part was that he has no degree or certificate from any school of art and the irony is that a Jaipur professor is doing doctorate (Phd) in his painting.

In coming days this painting will be a subject of learning in school of arts.

The artist is on the way to popularize this painting so that one day it can beat the most famous and the priceless painting of Monalisa. Artist is confident that his hard work, dedication and peoples blessing will help him achieve his goal..

After a successful run at trade fair the painting will go on display in various art galleries across the country. The next destination will be Mumbai where bollywood biggies are expected to have a look of the painting.

Currently painting is in safe custody and the scanned copy is in display at trade fair. Artist has got various offers including 50000 rupees to sell the replica of original painting.

"The painting was completed after consistent hard work and dedication of four years," said Navin Sharma, the painter. "I want to see my painting more beautiful than the famous 'Monalisa'," he said.

A View of Trade Fair (IITF) 2011

Delhi is ready for India International Trade Fair 2011 (IITF 2011). Lakhs of people have already visited this year grand festival and from today it is open for public viewing.
A painting worth of 5crore in Rajasthan Pavilion is the most attracting.

Let us see whats in there. This years major attraction is Thailand Pavilion which is attracting girls.


Whats new in IITF 2011
Focus state: Bihar and Orissa
Theme: “Indian Handicraftsthe Magic of Gifted Hands”
Partner State: Jharkhand and West Bengal

Thailand Pavilion. (specially for girls...)
Special Attraction: ornaments, house decorations, 

Overview of International Pavilion having Afghanistan, Czech Republic.
Special Attraction: Afghani spices, dry fruits, perfumes.

A dance performance from Ministry of Steel.

5 Crore worth Painting.
Major attraction in Rajasthan Pavilion. This painting took 4 years to complete. Has lakhs of Taj Mahal, kings, horses, elephants etc in the painting.

Delhi Pavilion. Decoratives range from 50 to 100.

Andhra Pradesh bamboo hat.

Andhra Pradesh traditional dance performance.

Andhra Pradesh pavilion

Gandhiji in Gujarat Pavilion.

Goa pavilion

Bihar Pavilion

West Bengal Pavilion

I AM DADA to the cutest baby girl!!: Sr. Bachchan

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has given birth to a girl.Amitabh Bachchan announced on Twitter "I AM DADA (grandfather) to the cutest baby girl!!"

Rai, 38, a former Miss World, has been married to actor Abhishek Bachchan for more than four years and the star couple had been fending off baby rumours for months before the pregnancy was confirmed in June.

 The Bollywood actress was expected to give birth to her first child in November and the Indian media had followed herpregnancy obsessively.

 The actress had been admitted to a Mumbai hospital on Monday.Rai, who often features on 'most beautiful' lists, has worked in several Bollywood and Hollywood films.

Nokia Lumia 800, first Windows Phone running Mango

Nokia has come up with its first Windows Phone in India, the Lumia 800, which runs the latest Windows Phone 7.5 aka Mango.

The mobile phone has been priced for Rs 29,000 and will hit the stores in the country next month.
The long awaited Nokia Lumia handset both appears as well as feels great, as it was expected. Well it can be said it was worth waiting for so long for the device.

Lumia 800 equips a clear black 3.7-inch impressive touchscreen display, supporting 480 x 800 pixels
resolution. The mobile phone offers an interesting feature that is, its 252 ppi pixel density, due to which is offers a crisp view.

It comes designed with a 12.1 mm thick body and weighs 142 grams which is not light. However the last month launched Samsung Omnia is lighter in weight and has a sleek design in comparison to it. The new Nokia Lumia 800 comes in three different colour options that are cyan, black and fascia, due to which you'll find the device looking fresh and attractive.

The gizmo packs a powerful 1.4 GHz application processor to run Windows Phone Mango 7.5. Besides, it also embeds a 512 MB of RAM to allows faster and better performance. The latest creation of the brand offers native Windows user interface comprising fantastic live tiles, and works amazingly.

Nokia Lumia 800 equips an 8- megapixel main camera and Carl Zeiss optics lens for clear images.
Moreover, the device also comes along with a dual LED flash that allows clear videos and pictures even when there is inappropriate lighting.

The device is capable of recording 720p HD videos. The latest Nokia smartphone has an on-board memory of up to 16 GB. It has been created emphasizing on its looks and designed quite like the Nokia N9, which has not released in many of the markets.

Overall the Nokia Lumia 800 is an excellent device, however it seems a bit over priced, especially when users have  cheaper option Samsung's first Windows Phone Omnia W.

Nokia launched first windows based smartphone

Global handset maker Nokia,along with Microsoft, on Monday announced the launch of its first smartphone based on the Windows operating system in the Indian market.

The move is expected to boost Nokia’s presence in the smartphone market, which has seen the company lose market share steadily.

Lumia 800

Lumia 710

The phones — Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 — have been priced at about $580 and $380 globally, respectively, and would be available in the retail market from mid-December.

Nokia would do away with the Symbian platform in the coming years, and replace it with the Windows operating system in all its smartphones, said Nokia India Managing Director, D Shivakumar. “The success of any phone in India is decided within three-four weeks of its launch, and we are confident that this is a winner, since we have already trained about 12,500 distributors, retailers and priority dealers who can sell Nokia Windows phone to smartphone buyers,” Shivakumar said.

The smartphone market, expected to account for 20 percent of the total handset market in value terms, has become a hotbed for handset vendors. Nokia unveiled its smartphone nearly a week
ahead of Apple, which is rumoured to launch the iPhone 4S in India on November 24.

The Finnish handset company expects the smartphone market in India to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 50 per cent in 2010-15, owing to 3G services and increased data usage. Globally, Nokia fell to No. 3 slot in the smartphone market, behind Samsung and Apple, according to market researcher Strategy Analytics. The company, however, continues to account for almost 30 per cent of market share in India.

For Microsoft, the smartphone platform presents a huge opportunity to tap theconsumer market. With a large presence in the government and education sectors in India, Microsoft is confident that the Windows phone would become the second-most popular smartphone operating system by 2015.

While rivals Samsung and HTC already have smartphones on the Windows platform, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, said, “What matters is the hardware and software integration. We have worked closely with Nokia to offer a unique user experience to users of the Lumia range of devices.”

Microsoft Windows operating system is expected to grow at 123 per cent until 2015 in the global market. Currently, in India, the operating system has less than one per cent market share, according to StatCounter data.

“It is more important for Nokia to provide consumers a strong experience in targeted markets and listen to consumer feedback to improve and further differentiate future Windows smartphone releases, than it is to quickly ramp volume of its initial Windows launch,” say analysts at
Canaccord.

The new Lumia range has the internet explorer 9 browser and in-built social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter embedded into the operating system. The range also boasts of applications such as Nokia Maps and Drive, which would have personal navigation devices in 50
languages, including Hindi. The company would offer maps of 100 countries and 750 cities across India free on all Nokia Lumia devices. Nokia Music and the MixRadio, a free global mobile music streaming application, would also be available. These services would be made available in India in
the first half of 2012.

Nokia would also provide 750 local applications by nearly 1,000 Indian developers on the Lumia device. The device has already been launched in Europe.

Movie review: Only Ranbir Kapoor rocks Rockstar

Director: Imtiaz Ali
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri
In the film Rockstar, Ranbir Kapoor is advised that to be a true-blue artist and a real rockstar he has to experience pain, which will come through heartbreak. If we go by this theory, most audiences of  his film will walk out of the hall as rockstars, since the movie will largely leave them heartbroken.
But for heartbreak, it is imperative to fall in love first and that's exactly what director Imtiaz Ali does. He starts off the film on a promising note and just when you fall in love with the amazing first half,  he narrative nosedives with a stagnant second half.
So you have the naive Janardhan Jakhar (Ranbir Kapoor) who aspires to be a rockstar like Jim Morrison. His yearning for heartbreak gets him close to Heer (Nargis Fakhri), as they bond over soft-
porn cinema and country liquor. Soon after, the girl is arried off to some NRI, the oy is thrown out of his house, he seeks solace in a dargah and next you know he's a singing sensation rechristened as
Jordan.
A foreign tour reunites him with Heer and their passive passion rekindles until Jordan is obsessed with her. What follows is another tribute to Devdas or rather Dev.D with the neurotic, lovelorn protagonist unable to get over his mixed emotions and confused definition of love. But that's not all as the plot meanders to culminate into an undesired arena of Erich Segal's Love Story.
Imtiaz Ali is known for his old- wine-in-new-bottle brand of cinema. Rockstar is very much engaging as far as it is in that familiar territory, where the director adds a refreshing touch to the regular romance drama. The casual chemistry that he induces between the lead pair through their wacky and eventful escapades has its moments of charm. The passion-play between them when they reunite after years is spontaneous, smoldering and yet tastefully achieved.

Their reunion is also faintly reminiscent of the Jab We Met reunion, where the character-conduct is reversed with the burbling boy now trying to make the gloomy girl's life more exciting. And like Love Aaj Kal, Imtiaz Ali kick-starts the film with a montage song highlighting select significant sequences from the entire film.

But beyond that when the director ventures into uncharted zone, the narrative loses track. While one can still overlook the Dev.D influenced intoxicating attitude of the proceedings (which you can somehow attribute to the convoluted rockstar protagonist), the subsequent terminal illness conflict takes the film towards an unwelcome and undefined end. After an interesting graph to the narrative in the first half, the story almost turns stationary in the second half.
The screenplay seems stretched and gets monotonous with repetitive media-bashing scenes and flashback shots of what has been already served to you.
Another problem with the plot is that it is neither a standalone story about the rise-of-an-underdog who becomes the biggest rockstar nor is it merely a love story with a rockstar backdrop. The director somewhere attempts to correlate the rockstar's rise with his romance but isn't able to achieve that impeccably. In fact the original one-liner plot with which the movie starts (a painful heartbreak gets out the real artist inside you) goes for a complete toss by the end.

One can never clearly perceive when Jordan's heart is broken in the assorted scheme of events and that's where the film loses objectivity.
The storytelling pattern of the film is needlessly intricate for a simple romance-drama genre.

While it is very much linear, the frequent use of multiple montages can have you confused. Initially the montages aid brisk storytelling but subsequently there are so much of them that it gets puzzling. Editing the film would surely have been a difficult task. Anil Mehta's cinematography is brilliant as he captures the beauty of Kashmir, Italy and Delhi with panache. AR Rahman's wide range of music has numbers which are instantly infectious (Sadda Haq) and others that take time to grow on you.

If Rockstar keeps you engaged even after you have given up on the story by the end, it is only because of Ranbir Kapoor.
From his innocence in the opening reels to his arrogance in the climax, Ranbir breathes life into Jordan and keeps you riveted. Whether he adlibs his songs, gives a dance-tribute to Shammi Kapoor or dictates the concert crowd, Ranbir gives cent percent to his character.
How much ever you try to ignore, but Nargis Fakhri fervently reminds of Katrina Kaif through her looks, acting, lip movements (and seemingly also has the same voice dubbing artist). Nevertheless she is likeable and shares good chemistry with Ranbir. Kumud Mishra as Jordan's advisor-turned anager is impressive.

Aditi Rao Hydari is confident but marred by a short-lived character. Piyush Mishra makes for an animated-yet- interesting negative lead. And it's pleasing to see Shammi Kapoor is his last decent cameo.
Rockstar rocks you but only partially thanks to the star called Ranbir Kapoor.

SRK gifts luxury cars to Arjun, Rajini and Anubhav

G.One might have failed to become a successful superhero,but he still is a super 'friend'. Shah Rukh Khan, who is known for his generous gifting, has recently ordered five brand new BMW 7 series sedans for those who helped him make RA.One.

According to sources, the list of lucky recipients of thisextremely expensive gift includes Arjun Rampal, who played the title role, director Anubhav Sinha and the south Indian superstar Rajinikanth, who made a cameo appearance in the film.

A source informed, "Shah Rukh has decided to gift one of the five BMW to Anubhav Sinha. One car will go to Arjun Rampal. Since Rajinikanth flew down to Mumbai to shoot specially for his cameo in the film, he'll get one car."

"There are two more people on the gift list. However, no one is aware of SRK's plans. The cars have already been booked with a local dealer. Once the delivery comes rough, the gifts will be on their way," added the source.

Talking about the actor's previous generous gifts, the source said, "Shah Rukh has always been a generous friend.

Earlier, he had gifted Farah Khan a Hyundai Terracan during the making if Main Hoon Na. He even gifted her a Mercedes during Om Shanti Om."

Meanwhile... Anubhav Sinha, who will very soon be the lucky owner of a BMW 7 series sedan, currently needs a phone more than a car. The filmmaker, while travelling in os Angeles, lost his mobile.

What's worse, the man who as found Sinha's phone is hatting to all the contacts on is list posing to be the ilmmaker.

Not too happy with the situation, Anubhav Sinha said, I was in LA for the screening f RA.One and I stayed back ince I wanted a break. While i vsiting a friend's place, I left my phone in the cab. After I returned to India, I was talking to this friend who told me that he had been chatting with me all this while. Which was impossible since I did not have my phone."

"On Wednesday, Shah Rukh told me that he spoke to me on chat. I was shocked. I don't know what to do about it now.

I don't know who the guy is. There are so many actors on my chat list. I just hope this person doesn't do anything stupid using my name," added the filmmaker.