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Abstract Painting by Ishika Praveen Through this Artwork I want you to feel the love at its highest form that sees you for who you are, accepts you with all your strengths as well as flaws. This is the eye of the person who loves you deeply, staring at you, penetrating inside your soul, in your innermost universe, asking you to see yourselves with their eyes, asking you to also fall for yourself. ×

Abstract Painting by Ishika Praveen Through this Artwork, I want you to feel the happiness in your eyes as a person whose whole Universe is deeply and madly in love. In love with someone’s smile, character, nature, beauty, care towards you and the list goes on. And then this eye represents the eye of your internal Universe surrounded by the aroma of the colours of the love that you longed for, for so long. ×

Abstract Painting by Ishika Praveen Through this Artwork I want you to fly today, and then every day when you look at it! May you Fly freely like my favourite bird, eagle, with your wings widespread. I hope you feel the freedom that one feels after facing their deepest fears straight in the eye, and end up free and more in love with all parts of yourself, like a rebirth that eagle experiences in mid of its life! ×

Abstract Painting by Ishika Praveen Through this Artwork I want you to feel the love of the dense forest at its heart. If you ever went for a trek in a forest and come out fallen in love for its serene beauty, this peace is for you to recollect the experiences of your travel everyday! ×

Abstract Painting by Ishika Praveen Through this Artwork, I want you to feel the warmth of the Sun like a hug on a day when your self esteem is cold & is in pain. While I also want the cool breeze in the sea, and the idea of a setting Sun to make the heat of the burden on your shoulder, to feel like an enxtinguishing fire. ×

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Why beginner art looks bad is something every new artist experiences. When you start painting or drawing, your imagination is far ahead of your skills — and that gap creates frustration.

This stage is not failure. It is learning.

The Skill–Vision Gap in Art

Your eyes improve faster than your hands. You can see mistakes before you know how to fix them. This is exactly why beginner art looks bad, even when effort is honest. Most people quit here, thinking they lack talent. In reality, they quit right before improvement begins.

How to Improve Without Losing Confidence

The solution is simple:

• Create regularly, not perfectly
• Focus on process, not results
• Follow structured guidance

Short daily practice sessions help your hand catch up with your vision.

Follow step-by-step beginner art lessons inside the app.

Every good artist once created bad art. The only difference? They didn’t stop.

The Beginner Phase Every Artist Tries to Skip

Try finding answers for these honestly, they might help you find some answers inside you:

• The “skill–eye gap”
• Famous artists’ early failures
• Why quitting early feels logical but costs growth

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Abstract Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Canvas
Frame: Present ×

Flower Garden Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Handmade Canvas
Frame: Present ×

Sunset at the beach Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Canvas
Frame: Present ×

Dancer Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Cartridge Sheet
Frame: Present ×

Girl with a hat Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Water Color Pencil
Material: Cartridge Sheet
Frame: Present ×

Psychedelic Dancer Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Large
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Large Canvas
Frame: Present ×

Abstract Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Canvas
Frame: Present ×

Girl with an ear-ring Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Small
Medium: Water color
Material: Water color sheet
Frame: Present ×

Village Scene Composition Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Large
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Cartridge SheetFrame: Present ×

Abstract Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Cartridge Sheet
Frame: Present ×

Flower Vase Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Standard
Medium: Acrylic
Material: Canvas
Frame: Present ×

Rose Painting by Ishika Size of painting: Small
Medium: Water color Material: Water color sheet
Frame: Present ×

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Fly together, but don’t tie my wings with yours 
Don’t forget to take your own flight, whenever there is an inner call
Be together, but with strings of infinite lengths
Share as many as you wish, but no obligations to breaths
Walk together, but choose your way when on a fork
Of course, this would test us, but choose your own walk
Trust me, as I do too

And be there whenever you wish to share moments, a few
Be there for me, if you wish to
Motivate me to take my own struggles
Never feel obligated to solve all my puzzles
Though we won’t leave our hands on the hurdles 
Don’t expect me to be there for you all the time
As we may take different paths sometime
Consider the list of Love, trust, and respect
If you ask me to reorder the queue, It would go like
Respect first, build Trust, and then would the love display its hues

~ Ishika Aggarwal

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January 1, celebrated as New Year’s Day, is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, perhaps the first day of the calendars hung at most of our homes.
Celebrations for this day start a day before, New Year’s Eve, and then last for around the entire month of January.

Resolutions, Checklists, and More

Resolutions

• Healthy Diet ( Becoming a Vegan )
• Exercise & Fitness Routine
• Developing a Reading Habit
• Frequent Walks ( Morning, Evening, etc )
• Developing a Habit To Finish ( Giving oneself the gift of done ~ Jon Acuff )
• Practicing Creative Hobbies
• Economically Balanced Life
• Avoiding Guilty Pleasures ( Drinking Alcohol, Smoking Cigarettes, Binge Eating, Binge Walking, etc )

List of To-Be-Travelled Destinations

In India :

• Valley of Flowers Trek
• Ranthambore
• Kuari Pass Trek
• Jaipur
• Nainital
• Shimla
• Mussoorie
• Lonavala
• Kolad
• Kamshet
• Alibaug
• Panchgani
• Rajmachi
• Sunderbans
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Gokarna
• Chikmagalur
• Wayanad
• Alleppey
• Munnar
• Hampi
• Ooty
• Yercaud
• Lakshadweep

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Why is this day called so?

We celebrate 22 December as the National Mathematics Day in India as declared on 26 February 2012 by the then Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. This declaration was made at Madras University to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (22 Dec 1887- 26 Apr 1920).

Since then, this day is celebrated every 22 December with a great many events held at educational institutions and universities throughout the world to keep alive the memory of the self-taught Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Excerpts from the PM’s speech at the 125th Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Ramanujan at Chennai

This is a section from the archive of the PM’s Speech delivered on December 26, 2011, in Chennai.

Dedicating more to him…

The foundation of the Ramanujan Math Park in Kuppam, in Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh, in 2017 augmented the day’s momentousness.
Furthermore, a Mathematics teacher Sanjiv Kumar conceptualized this park.

Excerpts from the Newspaper

This piece is from The Hindu and is dated December 27, 2011.

Correspondingly, this reminds me of the Hardy–Ramanujan number 1729

The number 1729 is called the Hardy–Ramanujan number after a popular visit by Hardy to see Ramanujan at a hospital.

I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. “No”, he replied, “it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

~ Hardy

Before this anecdote, Hardy quoted Littlewood as saying, “Every positive integer was one of Ramanujan’s personal friends.”

The two different ways are:

Altogether, generalizations of this idea have created the notion of “taxicab numbers”.

And, A statement of Ramanujan from the movie: 
The man who knew Infinity
An equation means nothing to me unless it 
expresses a thought of God.

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Dosti Mubarak,
Bin garzo ka rishta aur sath humesha jaise koi farishta
Ek meethi si tasalli, ki koi janta h me hu jhalli
Vo Rango ki potli ya muskurahaton ka chittha
Jb bat ho unki aa jaaye zuban pr koi khatta meethe kissa
Baat ho vo kalam ki ya ho koi fasana, zaruri sa lage unko btana
Vahi rakhwale khwahisho k jo dil me hi to rehte hai
Vo kaise log hote h jinhe hm dost kehte h

Sadiyo baad b baat kre, to bhi kl ki baat sunate h
Salo baat na krne se bhi jo rishte na murjhate hai
Baat ho jb jinki khil jaaye har hissa hissa
Jin se mohabbat ka hota hai sabse pehla rishta
Jeena bhul jaaye to aksar vo sikhate hai
Vo kaise log hote hai, jinhe hm dost kehte hai

~Ishika Aggarwal

^{Dosti Mubarak is inspired by the following poetry by Irfan Ahmad Mir
(dedicated to a decade-old friendship…)}

vo kaise log hote haiñ jinheñ ham dost kahte haiñ

na koī ḳhuun kā rishta na koī saath sadiyoñ kā

magar ehsās apnoñ sā vo anjāne dilāte haiñ

vo kaise log hote haiñ jinheñ ham dost kahte haiñ

ḳhafā jab zindagī ho to vo aa ke thaam lete haiñ

rulā detī hai jab duniyā to aa kar muskurāte haiñ

vo kaise log hote haiñ jinheñ ham dost kahte haiñ

akele rāste pe jab maiñ kho jā.ūñ to milte haiñ

safar mushkil ho kitnā bhī magar vo saath jaate haiñ

vo kaise log hote haiñ jinheñ ham dost kahte haiñ

nazar ke paas hoñ na hoñ magar phir bhī tasallī hai

vahī mehmān ḳhvāboñ ke jo dil ke paas rahte haiñ

vo kaise log hote haiñ jinheñ ham dost kahte haiñ

~ Irfan Ahmad Mir

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And ya. Don’t get me wrong. I am not at all asking you to be selfish. Not in the least am I asking you to hurt others, or do wrong things. But trust me, as you dig deep into yourself you will be able to make out the magic that was long hidden behind the thick layers of webs and specks of dirt. Lying somewhere deep within you is the real you, beautiful, loving, lovely, and magical.
Certainly, most of the time the reason for our distressed relationship with others is in effect our distressed relationship with ourselves. Most of us complain that they don’t respect us. Don’t think as nicely of us as they should. Don’t respect our personal columns, etc. Whereas perhaps if you ever take out some time to notice, you will find they simply treat you the way you treat yourselves. They think about you merely the way you think of yourselves. And unquestionably, in some way or the other you inspire others to deal with you the way you deal with yourself!
Allow me to ask you a question. Have you ever met a person whom you greatly honor? If yes then, sit down. Roll back the reel of your memory and see how the person treated themselves when you first saw them. Uhmm.. hmm. I hope you remember how nicely the person thought of herself, how beautifully she carried herself, and how you could feel the charm and the warmth even from a distance.
Therefore, I am bound to repeat that indeed ‘All relationships sprout somewhere from our relationship with ourselves. ‘So the next time you find someone inappropriate towards you, take it as a message. The divine is guiding you that you need to sort out things with yourself. 
Life is beautiful. It is finite. Life is impermanent. Life lasts for some finite chapters in a book, even if they number in thousands, which is rarely the case. The number of chapters however may vary. But as important is the entry of the protagonist in a book, as necessary is her exit to be, in some chapters to come no matter how distant or close. 
Jo aya hai, use jaana bhi padega is Duniya se. So boss, don’t waste much time before you begin this task of finding yourself and then falling for yourself and loving yourself. You just have to do the former, and the love affair automatically follows.
Presently, you may think differently. And I totally respect that. But, before you accept not to take this suggestion, at least give it a try. 

Previously, I was watching the movie Shakuntla Devi, when I verily felt like writing this blog. The plot of the movie revolves around the strained relationship between a mother and a daughter bringing out a beautiful message, close to what we were talking about from the very first line.

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सुना है हमने फ़सानों में
मुहब्बत तो दम लेकर रहे

अपनी मर्ज़ी से कोई भला
ये दर्द की राह क्यों चुने

लगा है दिल तो हमारा भी कहीं
पर गलती से भी न उसे कोई मुहब्बत कहे

मुहब्बत तो मुहब्बत ही है
इस दिल्लगी को कोई मोहब्बत क्यों कहे

सोचती हूँ आजकल मैं की ये तेरा मेरा जो फ़साना है
ये मुहब्बत है या फिर बस जीने का बहाना है

तो यूँ हुआ की बात हुई
इक दिन जब दो मुसाफिर थे मिले

मिलकर बिछड़े बिछड़े फिर मिले
चले फिर लंबे यूँ ही सिलसिले

है या नहीं मुहब्बत ये
अब तक हम तय कर न सके

बातें तो बहुत हो जाती है उनसे
पर मतलब उनमें ढूँढे से न मिले

इन बातों में सलाम नमस्ते भी
अक्सर घंटे दो घंटे तक चले

अलविदा भी फिर कहता है
हम भी भला क्यों पीछे रहें

बस फिर करते करते अलविदा
बातों में ही हर रात कटे

शुरुआत में तो हर बात उनकी
दौड़कर जा गले से लगे

पर धीरे धीरे बाद में
हर बात का हम मोल भाव करने लगे

कुछ बातें दिल की राह करते
कुछ बातों पर लड़ते झगड़ते

होता यूँ की कभी कभी तो बात पहुँच जाती थी ठिकाने पे
कभी कभी मुड़ जाती थी कही किसी बहाने से

ज़्यादातर बातें आजकल राह भटक जाती हैं
बातें तो बहुत होती हैं पर उनके आने पर, न जाने किस सफर निकल जाती हैं

पंजाबी भी कुछ सीखी है , उर्दू भी हैं कुछ सीख रहे
अब बातों में वो बात नहीं, इसलिए नई बोली से सोचा थोड़ी मदद ले लें

आज फिर चलते चलते , कुछ लिखने का ख्याल आया
लिखने लगे कुछ उर्दू में पंजाबी में सवाल आया
” आ इश्क़ ही है या बिना गल तो किसी नाल वफ़ा दा चढ़ेया तैनूं बुखार है .. “

सवाल जिसकी दी गयी मिसाल है
सवाल ये ला-जवाब है

कहते भी हैं कि, मिल गए जवाब जिस मुहब्बत में
वो मुहब्बत बेबुनियाद , वो प्रेम नहीं छलवाद है

पूरी हो जाए जो वो मुहब्बत कहाँ
अधूरी हो वो ही मुहब्बत, वही लगन, वही प्यार है

अब ये सुनकर कोई भला करे भी तो क्या करे
रब्ब से फरियाद कोई करे भी तो क्या करे

की रब्ब तू मुहब्बत पूरी करदे
या फिर की तू प्रीति अधूरी करदे

चाहे प्रेम चाहे इबादत चाहे जो तू करदे
रब्ब मरने से पहले एक बार तो ज़रूर करदे

चाहे प्रेम चाहे इबादत चाहे जो तू करदे
रब्ब मरने से पहले एक बार तो ज़रूर पूरी करदे

~ इशिका अग्गरवाल

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