Hope you have all seen the posts on the amazing pillars of Srirangam.

Recently two new friends of mine, not related in any manner, from different corners of the globe – have amazingly sketched the same pillars.

That’s the universal appeal of sculpture, that it touches similar chords among disconnected individuals, hits a soft spot, a past memory, a vestigial umbilical chord that revitalizes a sleeping nerve and suddenly opens your eyes,fills a deeply vacant spot inside you, a longing is fulfilled, leaving you with a sense of pure joy. That my friends, is the essence of art.

Check out these sketches.

Mr Raghavendra Prasad’s
http://raga-artblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/srirangam.html
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Mr. Shriram Rajaram’s
http://album-photo.geo.fr/ap/album/6945/?pos=1&order=InsertDate
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I wish both my young friends a great future in art, and hope they come up with many more such masterpieces.