Languages – AZIMVTH Ashram

Kellogg Memorial, Mussoorie and its Haridwar Connection

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Education, Languages, Post Cards, Virtual residency, Writing creatively

Language Learning School at Kellogg Memorial in Mussoorie near Haridwar is in a way continuation of the ancient literary traditions of Haridwar.

A Shepherd & A Warrior: A Seeker & A Honcho

October 18, 2020October 20, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Languages, Online courses, Photography, Virtual residency, Writing creatively

A senior corporate executive participates with an online virtual residency on spiritual memoirs.

My Life, My Lila

October 16, 2020February 13, 2022 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Creative Writing, Gifts, Languages, Mantra, Meditation, Numismatics & Philately, Online courses, Photography, Post Cards, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

It is oriented around writing a spiritual memoir inspired with visuals of a set of 11 postage stamps on Ramayana released by India Post.

What’s my Spiritual Name?

June 21, 2019August 24, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Languages, Mantra, Meditation, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

Do you have a spiritual name? A Yoga name? Find more...

Apply for a residency

January 14, 2019July 11, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Artists, Calligraphy, Calls Residency, Children & Young Adults, Cinema art, Creative Writing, Drawing, Education, February, God, Haute Couture, January, July, Knitting, Languages, Local art, Looms - weaving, Mantra, Mantra Chanting, March, Meditation, Movies, Music, Obama, Performance Art, Photography, Pilgrimage, Sculpture, Studio, Uncategorized, Virtual residency, Wood cut, Writing creatively, Yoga

Application process and form for artist residency at 365 Haridwar / AZIMVTH Ashram explained.

The Longest Poem by An Immortal: (& Colourful Equinox) by An Immortal Man

February 17, 2018June 12, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Cinema art, Drawing, Languages, Local art, Performance Art, Sculpture, Writing creatively

Holi, the festival of colour, is opportune to forgive and forget past animosities and angers. And look ahead with gratitude.

Death Enables Birth : The Drama of Earth

June 8, 2017June 12, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Calls Residency, Drawing, God, Languages

Shraadh is the annual fortnight for remembering those who are no more with us.

Sanskrit & Babylon: Inspirations from languages, art, culture

June 8, 2017June 12, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Calls Residency, Drawing, God, Languages, Local art

The national days of South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have cultural connections to India and like for India, are observed in the month of August.

Australia, India and the World: Anatomy of a Song

January 15, 2017May 22, 2017 by azimvth, posted in Cinema art, Languages

2016 British / Australian feature film 'Lion' starring Dev Patel (Slum Dog Millionaire, Life of Pi, etc) and Nicole Kidman has a song sung by the on screen actors themselves.

In the play ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’ of Kalidasa (400 C.E.), King Dushyanta forgets the name and identity of Shakuntala. The name is the identity. However, Shakespeare (1564), the Kalidasa of the West, had a different view on names in his play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Goethe (1749) doesn’t agree with Shakespeare in his play ‘Faust’.

“Juliet:

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Romeo:

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”

Goethe doesn’t follow this argument of Shakespeare as seen his play ‘Faust’, the following epigram based on Kalidasa’s ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’.

“Wilt thou have charms and delights,
Wilt thou have strength and support,
Wilt thou with one short word encompass the
earth and the heaven,
All is said if I name only, Shakuntla, thee.”