This time he called me ‘Ashok’. Still, he still remembers the names of his long gone brothers and sisters. And when I started this blog, I thought I maybe able to discuss some my discoveries with him. I may not be able to have any intelligible conversations with my Grandfather anymore but there are minor consolations.
This time in his room I found an interesting locally published ‘Hindu’ calender.
Most of the images were ‘tantric’ art in line of G.R. Santosh. And an odd image out in the calender I found was that of ‘The Shepherd’:
A painting by Miss G. Hadenfeldt from ‘The Charm of Kashmir’ (1920) by V.C. Scott O’connor (Vincent Clarence Scott, 1869-1945). More paintings by the artist here, posted to this blog back in 2010.
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This is creation of Sh Vijay Handoo of [ Rainawari ] who prints these calendars every year . There is an interesting story about the name he chose for his company " Geoffery & Bell " , many years back he told me that it originally was " Jaffer Posh & Byeli Pattar" and he just created a more fashionable name resembling that :
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