ANUSHA PINTO http://anushapinto.com Being everything I can be. posterous.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:56:56 -0800 Just like everyone else http://anushapinto.com/just-like-everyone-else http://anushapinto.com/just-like-everyone-else Many people tell me that they have a friend who is exactly is like me.
And there are others who tell me that they have spotted someone who
looks just like me.
Well, so much for being unique.

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Some memories hit me like flashes when I least expect. I am just thinking of something and boom! The most pleasant experiences can become the most painful memories. But then again, it is about keeping the balance and carpe diem. It was indeed good while it lasted. 

(This happened when at office we were thinking about holidays and Janmashtami was a topic of discussion. I almost instantly thought of what I was doing last Janmashtami and then Ouch!) 

 

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Don’t sweat it. If you are not happy, it’s okay. 

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Such a brilliant start to my day! Gave a career talk at a girl's convent school. Before me, talks were by a nurse, an engineer and a doctor. When each of them asked who among the kids want to be like them, so many kids raised their hands. Then it was my turn, and I simply asked, how many of you have at least HEARD of copywriting? Not a single soul! I instantly knew this was going to be fun! And I had a ball! 

In the middle I asked the kids - what does it mean to be creative? They said Imaginative, innovative, blah blah and then one girl in the corner stretching her hand like there's no tomorrow gave me the best answer - being ABSURD! 

I absolutely loved it! 

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Right now, emotionally I am going through what I felt when I was 19. In retrospect, even amidst all the confusion, I was quite level headed and made sensible decisions for self preservation. It's funny that I have to seek inspiration from my 19 year old self, but I also feel proud that I was a sorted teenager. Back then, I didn't care much and that made all the difference.

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Can't believe it has been a year since I went on a journey across India.

From thousands of applicants I got selected and the generosity of sponsors made it possible for me to embark upon this sought-after journey.

I have seen, grown and learnt many things from youth on that train and the role models we met. I enjoyed myself, made friends for life, I was entralled, upset, dissapointed, excited. But through it all, I was INSPIRED.   

A year later, I feel honoured to be a part of this video. Watch it to get a teeny tiny feel of what I felt :)

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I have been losing myself only to find myself again.
I have been going off track to realize what is on track.
I have been to the depths of pits and heights of clouds.
I have learnt and unlearned.
I have been everywhere and no where.
And I am here. Now. 


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We always talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. But what about the darkness in the middle of the tunnel?

The darkness that makes you stronger.
The darkness that teaches you to trust your instincts when you can't see anything.
The darkness that shows you who your true friends are.
The darkness that pushes you to conquer your fears and swing a stick if you have to protect yourself. 
The darkness that reveals yourself to you. Where you witness your mettle. 
The darkness where you realise that what you want and what makes you happy could be different. 

The darkness that we never want again is the one whom we owe who we are to. 

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So a lot of folks say they don't want to commit to something because they want to enjoy the freedom. I won't deny that I was of a similar opinion. But off late I have come to realise that freedom is not the absence of commitment but rather the decision to commit something of your choice. 

My freedom lies in the act of signing up for a two year part-time applied art course, knowing that my weekends and travel plans for two years get affected by it. It is a deliberate choice. I had the freedom to decide. I was not forced into it. I was not asked to commit. I did it completely understanding what it takes. So no weekend treks, no weekend goa trips, no saturday night late partying. But I do what I love doing every weekend and I really look forward to weekends. So I have the week to myself, to learn, practice, work, travel, meet people and I do that over weekends too. Just that I don't go out of town. That's it. Fair trade off. No pain, no gain. And it is way better than feeling like a bum when the weekends done :P 

My freedom lies in the leap of faith to start a company. Knowing well that life decisions and personal interests will get affected by it. I can't be erratic and run away, out of town for three months at a stretch. (May be I can later, once I set up a good base and hire some kickass folks).

My freedom lies in the responsibility I feel towards my parents. They never ask me to take care of them or pay their bills. I do so willingly and because I really want to!

And I think eventually, my freedom will lie in committing to one person; to honour, love and respect him for the rest of my life; in sickness, health, pain, sorrow (you know the jazz). I’m aware, I then can't lust after other men or fancy a one night stand. Or consider a romantic escapade during one of my travels. And in there lies my freedom to stand by the commitment I make.

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So here we are again. We think we have moved on. But things like these happen and we are back to square one. Lives lost. families hurt. Cell phone networks jammed. Hate messages. Help messages. Sure as a city we bounce back. But does that mean that this should happen again and again?

When we were younger, no one frisked us at malls. Railway stations didn't have those detectors. We could trust that we were safe, wherever we went. Now be it trains, buses or the just road, we are suspicious. 

I know I will have to get my bike checked at every parking lot hence forth. And may be in the future the most mundane, taken for granted things will also get checked. 

I am glad that someone I know has not been directly affected in any of the instances. But how long till someone I know actually gets affected? Someone I know dies? or I die myself? Because someone out there is dying.

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I suffer because I observe.
I squirm because I think.
Oh how blessed are the ignorant,
Bliss is truly theirs. 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1021263/The_Art_Umbrella_me_02.jpg http://posterous.com/users/5AqsfyOlVqmt Anusha Pinto anushapinto Anusha Pinto Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:09:47 -0700 Embracing the daring adventure my life is meant to be http://anushapinto.com/embracing-the-daring-adventure-my-life-is-mea http://anushapinto.com/embracing-the-daring-adventure-my-life-is-mea So here I am in Goa. Sitting on a pink stool, by a pink table, next to a tall window, overlooking the greenery outside, in a huge goan house, where I am sitting by myself, on a net book with internet, none of which belongs to me. With a glass of local port wine.

When I reached Goa on Tuesday morning, the train schedules were erased. So I assumed I would take the 7pm train back to Mumbai (like the way I had done the last time I was here. Oh the flexibility of traveling by cheap general compartment!)
But turns out, when I reach the train station at 7pm on Thursday, the train left at 5:30 and the schedule was updated.
Unlike most people, I laugh at the situation and get out of the station only to find a friend from Bombay waiting outside for some other folks. We get talking and now I am invited to his resort at Baga. To may be design the place. I call my local Goan designer friend and ask if he is interested in meeting a potential client. And walla, we have a meeting arranged today, Friday.

Turns out some other friends from bombay are here too. and I may meet them as well. I don't know. For now I am just embracing this daring adventure my life has thrown at me. 

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Actually I have never been nostalgic and reminiscing is not something I do often. I am always enjoying my present and eagerly looking forward to the future. Sure I get bored on certain days. But it never makes me feel like going back to the past.

I always feel that my best days are yet to come. Even when it comes to romance I think my greatest love awaits me. 

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Cute_cat_longing
This one seems like she is longing for something. (Not food. This picture is after dinner :P)

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No one meaning that will change the face of the earth.

As far as I can see, no path breaking invention, discovery or feat awaits me.

Yet, I live each day. Sometimes I go out and see a side of my surroundings, city or country that I never noticed and sometimes I am within the confines of my house enjoying three home-cooked meals of the day.

I have many pictures in my mind. Multiple dreams - some little and some big. Really big. But they're all in my head. And I am not sure if I will be able to live them all. But I want to. I really do.

I want to live multiple lives in a single lifetime.

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Compassion is beyond religion, culture, education.
It it beyond age and gender. It exists in us all.

If an 8 year old, who has never studied moral science
or been taught value education,
can forget her hunger and walk for miles
to do whatever is in her power
to help children younger than her survive.
She cannot afford to bring food, but she can bathe them.
So she'll carry water for miles
and she'll pluck some greens on the way.
just wonder what greatness lies within the meekest.

There is hope, there was and always will be.


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Quiet02
This was a very challenging brief. While I could have settled for the easier adjectives like wet/dry, hot/cold I went in for quiet/loud because I never really visualised the words quiet and loud before. 

The first thing I did was add some graphic elements to represent the opposite. Like making the the Q of quite into a crying baby's open mouth, which was rejected at first glance by my teacher. NO GRAPHICS AT ALL! use the letters to depict what you want, she said. So after scribbling mercilessly, trying to make rough edges and the letters irregular, like a noisy loud thing, I realised that sound at high decibels can breaks glass; irrespective of being pleasant or unpleasant. Like the Opera singers do. Loudness breaks glass! So Walla! make a font that represents a glass breaking effect!

If only it were simple. I ended up making 6 versions of it on different papers, used poster colours, outlines n what not! Finally this one was close to what I wanted. Hand painted, with water colour on Indian TK paper to give it a transparent glassy effect. phew!

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I created this logo seeking inspiration from the place itself. Our country is gifted with beaches, plains, mountains - you name the topograhy and we have it and McLeodGanj is called the switzerland of India. I have never been to Switzerland, but McLeodGanj is nothing short of paradise. The beautiful Bhagsu waterfall, the lanes, the greenery, the treks, the mountains, valleys and the people. Stay there for two days and you'll start recognizing and greeting people on the streets :)

McLeodGanj hosts the Tibetan government in exile and hence the heavy Tibetan influence on the place. The skies are coloured with prayer flags and stones are engraved with Tibetan script. You will feel like rotating every prayer wheel you see and the sound of aum mane padme aum fills the atmosphere as the street vendors work at their CD stands.

For this logo I used the prayer wheels and the dominant colour combination of red and yellow. I created the logo type by studying the anatomy of whatever Tibetan pali script I could find online. I am wondering if I should also put up the sketches and the process. For now I just have an image of the final hand drawn Logo.

Mcleodganj

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