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All of us here in India are used to colourful calendars hanging on the walls in our houses and places of work. There is wide variety of themes, shapes and sizes. There are calendars which show the entire year in one page, a month or two per page and of course, the daily calendars. Most of the calendars are freebies given away by various businesses, like textile shops, jewellers, insurance companies and of course, big pharma.
Here is a typical example of the ubiquitous Daily Sheet Calendar that one will find in every house in Tamil Nadu.
Every page is cluttered with all the astrological information that the practising Hindu requires. Most of these calendars, like the one pictured above display three dates, corresponding to the Tamil (which differs from the standard Sanskritic Hindu calendar), Islamic and Gregorian calendars.
I did not intend to do an in depth analysis of calendars when I started out this post. What prompted this post was the calendar that we have hanging in our bedroom. It is a tastefully done monthly calendar (from LIC) which has paintings by Indian artists in each sheet. I particularly liked the painting for March…
‘Three Pujarinis’ by Jamini Roy.
You can see more examples of Jamini Roy’s paintings in this online gallery.
I also found another great example which is very apt for today.
‘Mother and Child’ by Jamini Roy.
If you are not the kind who enjoys these kind of boring paintings, here is a different and more hip kind of calendar (wait for the Flash file to load & click on the panels).
Happy Women’s Day
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Vijay! It looks like I have a lot of catching up to do!
Thank you for the Women’s Day greeting. I hate to admit it, but I had no idea that such a day even existed. Count on my first hearing about from you, my very learned friend!
by Moof on 2008-03-08 at 10:08 pm
Jamini Roy is a very fine painter, better than many others.
by Cuckoo on 2008-03-08 at 11:06 pm
Those are wonderful paintings Vijay, but the latter is probably better for Mother’s Day than IWD. Not all women are married and mothers you know, so trot it out again for Mother’s Day.
You’ve come back with a vengeance here.
by jmb on 2008-03-09 at 9:24 am
Thanks Moof.
Your new site looks great Cuckoo.
I got misled by Wikipedia JMB. It said on the main page yesterday that it was IWD and Mother’s Day in some countries. But I’ll take your advice and trot it out again on Mother’s Day. I’m not too sure about the come back with a vengeance bit. My blogging usually occurs in bursts and spurts with long intervening periods of silence.
by Vijay on 2008-03-09 at 10:56 am
“Mother and Child” is frame-worthy. Tasteful calender.
by Lakshmi on 2008-03-13 at 9:46 pm
Was searching for some source for buying Jamini Roy’s Three Pujarinis and landed up in your site. The sight of tamil calendar caught my attention as such little things are of interest to me too. Good blog. Will visit often.
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Krishna
by Krishna G S on 2008-05-05 at 8:35 pm
“All of us here in India are used to colourful calendars hanging on the walls in our houses and places of work. There is wide variety of themes, shapes and sizes. There are calendars which show the entire year in one page, a month or two per page and of course, the daily calendars. Most of the calendars are freebies given away by various businesses, like textile shops, jewellers, insurance companies and of course, big pharma.
Here is a typical example of the ubiquitous Daily Sheet Calendar that one will find in every house in Tamil Nadu.”
Hello Vijay,
I am searching for some daily calendars from the year 2008. Do you have any idea where I can find that. Can image that there still are a lot, but didn’t find one in a shop when I was in India. Probably because we are closer to 2009 then we are to 2008.
For example a company that makes them is already a lot of help.
Kind regards
Tom
by Tom on 2008-11-13 at 4:59 pm
Hello Vijay,
I am searching for some daily calendars from the year 2008. Do you have any idea where I can find that. Can image that there still are a lot, but didn’t find one in a shop when I was in India. Probably because we are closer to 2009 then we are to 2008.
For example a company that makes them is already a lot of help.
Kind regards
Tom
by Tom on 2008-11-13 at 5:00 pm