Colors: Stimulating the Renaissance Mind

I’m publishing a new series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about Art and Culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of Art – a painting, a poem, a piece of music, so forth – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – White Snow, Brown Canyon.

Snow in Bryce Canyon, Utah | Sramana Mitra, 2017 | Watercolor and Pastel | 18 x 24, On Paper

Rabindranath Tagore’s Shesher Kobita: Video Of Our Recent Performance

For my Bengali readers, here is a rendition of Tagore’s Shesher Kobita. I was in Calcutta recently, and we performed it as a voice play at our house, with friends and family. This is a tradition we’ve had in our family for a long time. However, because of my schedule, it has not been possible to do much in the last 17 years. Nonetheless, this time, with very little rehearsal, we managed to stage this Tagore classic on April 1. Hope you enjoy it!

The Famine

When famine ravaged the city,

Lord Buddha asked his disciples,

one by one,

“who amongst you would take on the task of feeding the hungry?”

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Banani Dey Music Festival: Amar Praner Pare Chole Galo Ke (Rabindrasangeet)

Web 3.0 and Social Dance: Jive

Here’s jive …

Banani Dey Music Festival: Ami Je Aar Shoite Pari Ne (Rabindrasangeet)

Web 3.0 and Social Dance: Flamenco

If you liked the paso doble, you should also take a look at flamenco, its cousin. Here’s La Tania, one of my favorite flamenco dancers, performing in San Francisco:

And here’s social dancing at a flamenco club in Seville, Spain:

Web 3.0 and Social Dance: Paso Doble

Paso doble, of Spanish origin, is not an easy dance. Here are two wonderful scenes from Strictly Ballroom to give you a sense of what it looks like …