Thank you @mona_shroff_jewellery for sending this all way from my former home, Hong Kong. A beautifully versatile piece, ready to pair with my track suit as well as my favourite kurta, though today I needed to air out my skin. Not used to wearing so many layers.
Posted @withregram • @shamimsarif #berniememes I Can’t Think Straight film. Had to do it 🙂 what do you think?! @beneaththesheetz @lisaraniray @hananfkattan
Batting for unusual narratives and strong female characters for the past 20 + years ✌️
Thanks for this reminder 🙏🏼
Posted @withregram • @retrobollywood Kasoor
February 2, 2001.
“I’ll reserve my judgement on the movie and wait to see the reaction it evokes! It has Aftab Shivdasani and is a suspense thriller. My character is a modern, progressive and career-oriented woman, a role that is rarely portrayed by the female protagonist in Hindi movies. I feel it’s quite challenging and demanding and has tremendous scope. We finished a few schedules and it has been a wonderful experience! I’m this enthusiastic about something after quite a while! It feels all the better because it’s my first time! I always believe that the first time while doing anything feels the best! After that it gets repetitive.
I’m having an absolute blast with Kasoor! I feel charged and focused. I’m pushing myself professionally after a long while. There’s a high when I’m doing something that involves discipline and professionalism and, at the same time, combines fun and informality. That’s what Kasoor is all about — everyone is very serious when it comes to work but the general atmosphere is so congenial that it barely feels like work!”
– Lisa Ray, 2000.
Caption courtesy Rediff.
@lisaraniray @aftabshivdasani @vikrampbhatt
#kasoor #20yearsofkasoor #20retroyears #vikrambhatt #mukeshbhatt #maheshbhatt #lisaray #lisaraniray #aftabshivdasani #nadeemshravan #pravinbhatt #kitnibechainhoke #zindagibangayehotum #00sbollywood #killersoundtrack #ЛизаРэй #АфтабШивдасани
Nothing particularly interesting to say. I’m leaving it all for the page (second book in progress and that’s more than enough pressure)
I do, however, want to share that I play 80s New Wave and let my clothes do the talking when the kids are away and I am surrounded by the shrapnel and sum of my present: art, toddler potties and a neon heart.
Art @dhruviacharya
Neckpiece @mona_shroff_jewellery
Toddler potty @wallmartusa 😂
#LeisureQueen
Ask me how I’m feeling on this historic day.
‘With all its many risks
This life endures.
How marvellous to breathe in and out again
To fall asleep
And then awake refreshed.’
– nagarjuna’s letter to a friend
#bidenharris2020
Thank you @mona_shroff_jewellery for this set that infused some moonstone into a shitty week.
It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now
– Marcus Aurelius
We. Happy.
This is an exhibition not to be missed in Mumbai.
Posted @withregram • @artmusings99 1 day to go… opens tomorrow – All day preview ‘Reincarnate: We meet here in the Afterlife’, a solo exhibition by Shilo Shiv Suleman at Art Musings.
For the MGW 14-17 Jan, the gallery will be open daily between 12 to 8pm. Since the number of visitors is restricted, we request you to call in and book a slot. RSVP is mandatory.
Says Suleman, “2020 was a death and resurrection, but our worlds have ended so many times and begun again. Our myths and monuments are testament to the ever living- bodies that turn into gardens, civilizations that live beneath the shifting sands of empires, lovers’ tombs overgrown with ivy, flood myths and end of the world stories. Every incarnation is meant to serve a cosmic purpose.
As we meet (here) in the afterlife, what fulfilment will our reincarnating stories find?”
What’s not to love about this big bellied, satisfying adaptation of The White Tiger.
#thewhitetigernetflix
This is my personal ‘Tara’, who has graced my life with her loving presence, her music, her wicked wit snd wisdom and kinship. If you have read #closetothebone you know the book ends with the lyrics of a song she wrote. I’m brought to happy tears every time I hear them and her haunting voice in my head.
Posted @withregram • @taramacleanmusic I have loved @lisaraniray since the first moment I met her by the pool in India. I was dripping with baby girls and sweat and there she was, beaming her luminous smile at me and I fell in love. We have been inner circle sisters since that moment and have seen each other through so much. This book is exquisite. Her writing is unbelievable and the story…I won’t try to put words to it, just read them for yourself. I am so honoured to know her, and as she says in her book, we belong to each other. That’s next level love right there. There are few human beings as brave, as brilliant and as beautiful in every way as Rani. #closetothebone #lisaray #cancergraduate #inseperable @doubledayca
Posted @withregram • @rajovilla “But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might,
and might with right,
then love becomes our legacy
and change our children’s birthright
So let us leave behind a country
better than the one we were left with
Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest,
we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one”
-from The Hill We Climb by @amandascgorman
Girls, there are no limits. @vp
Posted @withregram • @milesneale Nothing in this world lasts, strive relentlessly for liberation.
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Final words of the Buddha
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#gradualpath
#buddha
#buddhaquotes
Posted @withregram • @shreshisinghart Zara hatke, zara bachke, ye hai Bombay meri jaan…
I once met a Sufi (probably back from playing lawn tennis) lost in conversation with an NRI from London, a sleeping man (perhaps resting before starting a tiring day), a chai wala and two lovers on bandstand. Nothing extraordinary just the things that happen in Bombay! Nothing dividing them in that moment, just them combined by human spirit.
This painting is my effort to create a visual metaphor inspired by the first morning on bandstand when I last visited Bombay. I kept hearing the sound of crows cawing mixed with the sound of gentle morning breeze coming from the sea while painting this—can you hear what I’m talking about? you can probably smell it too if you have ever been to bandstand in the morning!
Print releasing soon in my online shop.
Posted @withregram • @aparna_bhattachatya I finished the book ‘Close to the Bone’ a few days back. It was one of the most satisfying reads in a long time. I say ‘satisfying’ because there was so much of honesty in the writing. The life journey is written without any inhibitions and it shows how we make the choices in our life, mostly impulsively and by chance. And in the end we realise that we need to make our choices consciously. It is only then that we realise our real purpose. It was a bare all; something which is rare to find now. ‘Satisfying’ again because it is the story of a ‘Cancer Graduate’; a term coined by the author, of a person who is living her life on her own terms; living and learning from all the complex experiences in it.
The book resonated with me, especially the later part of the book, as I could identify patterns of life decisions and how we need to make transformational changes in the process of our healing. Being treated for cancer made me realise that being true to oneself is the essence of life. That lays the path for all decisions and we are able to carve the way. My journey with the book was indeed a self-discovery. Thank you for this book @lisaraniray
#worldcancerday2021 #selflove #selfdiscovery #inspirational #gratitudepost #thankyou @harpercollinsin
Posted @withregram • @brycesmom.310 “I choose to live as a goddess incarnate, soft and dangerous, striking at darkness, moving with compassion.” — @lisaraniray 🤍
#ThrowbackThursday #LisaRay #LisaRaniRay #ClosetotheBone #Queen #womenempowerment #inspire
Another artist I collect is exhibiting in #Mumbai
Check out Rithika’s illusory reality overflowing with vibrant myth and archetypes
Posted @withregram • @tarqmumbai “The capacity for change and knowledge is within all of us. We posses the inner strength to overcome, adapt and move forward. We need to reach the summit of our own self actualisation or order to be able to enact meaningful change in the world around us.”
Rithika Merchant’s ‘Birth of a New World’ opens this Thursday, just in time for @mumbai_gallery_weekend 2021!
In this new series of watercolours and collages, @rithikamerchant focuses on the contemporary moment. With nature continuing to play a vital role in her works, Rithika invites us to ponder the age-old questions of what is deemed worthy of saving and how do we strike a balance? Is there a possibility of a utopia or are we chasing after the unattainable? What will we take with us and what gets left behind?
Seen here:
RITHIKA MERCHANT
Summit, 2020
Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper
27.5 x 19.6 inches
#rithikamerchant #birthofanewworld #contemporaryart #art #artist #comtemporaryartist #visualart #visualartist #gouache #artistsattarq #mgw2021
The all engulfing words of the troubadour. Full of wonder and rugged healing.
Posted @withregram • @podcastmeltingpot 🔺️MELTING POT’S PICK OF THE MONTH 🔻
@lisaraniray ‘s journey has been so inspirung and her book #closetothebone is an incredible read to know more about the talented actress. So happy to have read this and share the same with you all😊
Buy your copy NOW!
#lisaray #lisaraybook #lisaraniray #closetothebone #book #inspiring #inspiration #podcastlifestyle #inspireeachother #read #actress #lisa #ray #inspired #podcasting #lifejourney #shareyourstory
Can’t find emoji for bookworm, so make your own up. And join in.
Posted @withregram • @shahzia.sikander Repost from @maharamstudio
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#ShahziaSikander. The Singing Spheres, 2016. Artist and #MaharamCollaborator Shahzia Sikander uses techniques associated with Indo-Persian miniature painting to create layered, complex narratives. Her contribution to #MaharamDigitalProjects, pictured here, is composed of hundreds of small icons made from feminine hairdos extracted from the female gopis — traditional worshipers of the Hindu god Krishna. The spherical #hair function as a moving particle system bringing to light the kinetic possibilities of the female singular inhabiting the feminine collective #MaharamLikes #animation #shahziasikander #digitalart #light #projections #femalenarratives #womeninarthistory
Posted @withregram • @brainpicker “…for there is always light
if we are brave enough to see it
if we are brave enough
to be it.”
And how the light alighted to her ear, that supreme instrument of empathy, which is the crucible of courage. Brava and thank you, @amandascgorman.
The wait is over! On World Cancer Day today, we honour actor, daughter, wife, mother and cancer survivor Lisa Ray who refused to let the dreaded disease break her spirit. In the first episode of #FindMyStrong, she shares her story of courage, resilience and hope in a heartfelt chat with me.
@selfcarebysuman
Video credits:@singhspiration
Series concept: @shereegg30
@sonicaarya1 @authorraynaarya @anjuu.alchemy @diagoldbyvardagoenka @reshmakhiani @durga4477
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#healthdesign #selfcarebysuman #nutritionistmumbai #findmystrongseries #findmystrong #inspiration #worldcancerday #cancersurvivor #inspire #brave #selflove
A few of my favourite things.
Thank you @experimenterkol for sending this holographic delight.
#mariagefreres #cloudvapour #art
