This is for Thoughtshop Foundation. The colours are coded for six faces of eight cubes. Participants roll the cubes like dice and get to tell a story with the top faces of all eight cubes. I had a ton of fun working on this, working for them is always a pleasure.

In More Detail:

These illustrations are for “Storybox”, a skill-building game that encourages positive thinking. It is part of a set of participatory tools for youth Change Makers – volunteers with the WE CAN CAMPAIGN.

The game stimulates the ability to envision positive outcomes for girls and women in adverse circumstances. It has been designed in response to the need to empower young people, to enable them to act with inspiration and hope when dealing with situations of gender based discriminations and violence they see around them.

The tool is being piloted in English and Hindi through a few organizations associated with We Can Campaign.

There should be links to download USER MANUALS and DIY kits on the Thoughtshop Foundation website soon. I shall update this space as soon as the links are up! 

Why sit indoors and watch the rain, when you can step out and enjoy it while it lasts? An absolutely brilliant beginning to a new day. Wish you all some rain from this side. 

This one's for Misa. :D Happy Birthday Shubee, I wish you eons of happiness and the faithful company of dogs. You and I, would both agree that to be surrounded by them would be the ultimate dream.

Misa loves you. 

To Pallu and Maddy, this is our glamavatar :D . Together we can beat any weather! Lots and lots of hugs and kisses coming your way!.

I know I've already mentioned how wonderful she is :). It's finally your birthday, and I want to wish you infinite amounts of love and good luck! Get that scooty and come to me! :D Happy Birthday Spandeshwari, may you always be blessed and crazy. Oodles of love.

(psst.. I didn't miss the little spot on your chin).

She's a wonderful person and an even better friend. Almost Happy Birthday Nondi aka d'Lisa, This is your early greeting :). I love you and for you, I shall always be there. You've never made me feel like I did too much :D (infact I feel like I can't do enough) and you always go out of your way. 

This is a late birthday greeting to my best friend in the whole wide world Maddy, she's the hippest immunologist I know! I know you've been wanting this for a while :). I love you so SO MUCH Maddy :D. Happy Birthday love.
(Though unintentional, the drawing reminds me of Kathy Keene from Archie comics!)

So recently, I started this diary of little quotes I thought I should pen down. These things come to me in flashes and I keep thinking I should write them down but never do so. NOW I have :). I hope that I can look back at these to sometimes make me feel better, sometimes to think and sometimes make me learn from my mistakes. I thought I'd illustrate one of them:
 "Sometimes, somethings hurt so much, that we're left looking over our shoulders, instead of looking at the road ahead of us'"
I'm sure there are plenty of us who feel that way every once in a while, but do not be defeated, this too shall pass. :) .

Guys only 5 more days to vote!! Please score and give feedback! the link is here too : http://www.threadless.com/submission/407155/family_weekend

Practicing faces in front of a mirror, an age old habit that has now finally translated to something useful! Loads of fun and great for practice!

Seven frames of long, thick, lovely, waving hair. If only.

SO this was an experiment of new things, a list of things I haven't animated before, like water, swimming, waving hair, fish and cartwheels! You see I can't really swim (I will learn someday), but at least here I can save myself the embarrassment of arm floaties! :D Hope you enjoy it as much as I did doing this!.

a leetal detail.

By request! :D For all those believers.

So I want to try a few different things I haven't tried, there will be more in a few days!
p.s. the blur is hand drawn.

So it was four days with a laptop not working, took out the sketchbook watched some good dvds! This one's my version of a poster for Mona Lisa Smile. A 'Stepfordian' 1950's wife, let's just dust it all under the rug and smile! 

SEASON'S GREETINGS EVERYBODY!! I wish everyone a wonderful and absolutely splendid and crazy year ahead!.

This is for PANDU! There can never be a dull moment with her in the room, and keep your promises to sleep on time aside when it comes to her, in her company you won't know how the hours fly by! Cheers to an absolutely insane time! I hope you have a great day! Happy Birthday! Lots of love and birdseed, from me and Floyd!

My favorite dog on campus, Doggie, gave birth to her litter of seven, sometime ago. All of them have bindis on their heads (save one, I think) and all thoroughly adorable.
Dogs are therapeutic, it is indeed, fact. 

This is for a friend of mine Jitterbug, she makes these fancy snacks for us whenever we're in dire need of food! Happy Birthday Nilo!! Lots of love!

 To Harsha, Shubee and Veeru, and to all of those happy dogs who keep spreading the joy!