PPS' Scrapbook

Chandausi ke chole!  Why I am writing about it? because of my liking to it and my school time association with this guy called "Braham Bazar ke cholewale pandit ji". I have seen him from my school days when I used to get a very small amount of pocket money for midday break, but I usually ended up spending that money on my way to school while crossing Braham Bazar and having hot and delicious dal-chole at panditji cholewale. I like the eating stalls at my home town Chandausi. The taste is similar to  old delhi stalls food. and got a little more small townish feel to it. This time when I was at my home, I was on my way to grocery buying schedule. I was in Braham Bazar and I could not resist my self having 2 pattas of chole. just then, idea clicked to me to take his photo and ended up making a short cell phone video of him. it was a spontaneous thought no planning done. that's what I like about my "LG cookie PEP" It allow to capture my sudden observed moment...

last weekend I was at my hometown chandausi. in the month of August and September there is a mela which is held during this period in worship of lord Ganesh ji. I visited the mela with my friend Anni. He took a camera with him so we kind of made a visual documentation of a small town mela. what is exciting that this is a night mela so the lighting and brightness mela colours is really joyous. I will be soon giving the url of the entire lot of pics here. for the time being you can see the video which I uploaded on youtube of the "Maut Ka Kuan" stunt show.

sabrang is a very common name in Hindi and it means all the colours. the name in itself is quite literary and there was a very famous Hindi literature magazine in old good days of Hindi. Now its a name of an NGO. but what I am going to write about has nothing to do with anything maintained above. here I am talking about a very small art studio in Chandausi, Uttar Pradesh. It is run by Avlesh Kumar varshney aka 'Anni Sabrang'. He is a home grown portraitist who paints photo realistic portraits for the common people. सबरंग चित्रालय भारत के कला परिद्रश्य का उपेक्षित नाम है , लेकिन चंदौसी का उभरता सितारा क्यूंकि वो गरीबो का चित्रकार है । लगभग चंदौसी के सभी घरो में उसके बनाये पोर्ट्रेट लगे हुए है । वह पुराने फोटो और ग्रुप फोटो से पोर्ट्रेट बना देता है । वो भी सामान्य से दामो में । उसके खुबाव ऊँचे हैं क्या वो अपने सपने पूरे कर पायेगा ? He wants to put up an exhibition of his work and is very much interested in animation. yeah, you can say he got to know about the intricacie...