Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Pen sketch)

 "I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice."

“If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud.”

“Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.”

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose (Pen sketch)

"The greatest curse for a man is to remain a slave.
The grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong.
The highest virtue is to battle against inequity, no matter what the cost may be."

“We should have but one desire today- the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood. Friend's! My comrades in the War of Liberation! Today I demand of you one thing, above all. I demand of your blood. It is blood alone that can avenge the blood that the enemy has spilt. It is blood alone that can pay the price of freedom. 'Tum mujhe khoon do, mein tumhe azadi doonga' (You give me blood, and I promise you freedom).“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength......' “

- Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

My Best friend Dinesh R Shenoy (Pen Sketch)

Short note on him for my facebook friends......
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He is an artist who is active in the field of painting for last 28 years studied under famous portrait artist Late Shri. Joseph Newton. He is running my own Studio Gallery named “Chitrasala Art Gallery” and the gallery got privilege to receive auspicious guest Sir Roy Calne (Nobel Prize Winner), Shri. K.K.N. Kurup (Historian and former Director General, Centre for Heritage Studies, Hill Palace & Former Vice Chancellor, Calicut University), Cinestar Salim Kumar etc.

Some of his works are collected and permanently displayed in Arakkel Museum (Kannur), Hortus Malabaricus Museum (Hill Palace), Centre for Heritage Studies (Hill Palace), Cochin Refineries, BSNL (Ernakulam), Aspinwall , Malayala Manorama (Ernakulam, Kottayam & Delhi), Harbour View Residency (Ernakulam), Cochin Club, Lotus Club, YMCA (Ernakulam), Alappatt Arcades (Ernakulam), Brunton Boat Yard etc.

Monochromatic Landscape works are his speciality and he had done more than 400 landscape paintings of ancient Cochin. His Monumental landscape works are appreciated by many.A separate collection of paintings of old Dutch, British, Arab, Greek ships are highlight of his gallery.

Pls visit his page : https://www.facebook.com/dineshrshenoy and appreciate his great talent.

And also visit to  : http://artistshenoy.blogspot.com/

Thank you ... :)

Swami Vivekananda - Pen Sketch

उत्तिष्ठता जाग्रता प्राप्यवरान निबोधता
क्षुरस्यधारा निशिता दुरत्यया
दुर्गं पथस्तात कवयो वदन्ति - (कठोपनिषद)

uttiṣṭhata jᾱgrata prᾱpya varᾱn nibodhata:
kṣurasya dhᾱrᾱśitᾱ duratyayᾱ; durgam pathas tat kavayo vadanti (Kathopanishad)

Do not be under the notion that you can get this blissful experience in a trice. Awake! Arise! Stop not till the goal is reached! Seek refuge with men of wisdom. Know it, then, by surrender to them.

Mario Miranda - Pen sketch

Dev Anand - Pen sketch

Another Cartoon about 2012 i.e. End of the World.

Is the World is going to end by this year?  What can you say about the Mayan Calendar Prophecy? Is it true? 

“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country… Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived… Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.”

"It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions, of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land, which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country."

युनान-ओ-मिस्र-ओ-रोमा सब मिट गये जहाँ से
अब तक मगर है बांकी नामो-निशान हमारा ॥
कुछ बात है की हस्ती मिटती नही हमारी
सदियो रहा है दुश्मन दौर-ए-जमान हमारा ॥

My first cartoon

I have no knowledge about cartoons. Its' sketches are different from other drawings which I have used to. Though, from my childhood I was very much interested in drawing cartoons. But now only it emerged as a flash and materialized due to some socio-political happenings around the state where I am living.

In this cartoon PM asking CM of Kerala that when is the "urgency (or death ceremony) ?" It was asked in the context of the requirement of PM's urgent intervention in the Mullaperiyar Dam issue. In Malayalam "Adiyanthiram" has two meanings, one is urgency and the other one is ceremony (mostly, sometimes it refers only to death ceremony)

(എനിക്ക് കാര്‍ട്ടൂണ്‍ വരയ്ക്കാന്‍ അറിയില്ല. പക്ഷെ പല ആശയങ്ങളും ഇടയ്ക്കിടയ്ക്ക് മനസ്സില്‍ പൊന്തിവരാറുണ്ട്. എന്നാല്‍ സമകാലീന പ്രശ്നങ്ങളെ കുറിച്ച് ജനങ്ങളെ ബോധാവാന്മാരാക്കുന്ന കാര്‍ട്ടൂണുകള്‍ പത്രമാധ്യമങ്ങളില്‍ തീരെ കാണുവാന്‍ സാധിക്കുന്നില്ല. മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാര്‍ പ്രശ്നത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് പ്രധാനമന്ത്രിയെ ധരിപ്പിക്കുവാന്‍ നമ്മുടെ പ്രിയപ്പെട്ട മുഖ്യമന്ത്രി ഡല്‍ഹിയില്‍ പോയ വാര്‍ത്തയെപ്പറ്റി എനിക്ക് തോന്നിയ വിഷയമാണ് ഇതിനോട് ചേര്‍ത്തിരിക്കുന്ന കാര്ടൂണിനു ആധാരം. ഇത് എന്‍റെ കാര്‍ട്ടൂണ്‍ വരയ്ക്കാനുള്ള ആദ്യത്തെ ഉദ്യമമാണ് . (sketches curtsey : Cartoonist Kirtish Bhatt & Cartoonist Yesudasan))

My Konkani Poem "पाळांचे मोह"

Introduction

Hi, everybody... :)

Welcome to my blog.

My name is Balakrishna Mallya. I am an artist creating contemporary as well as realistic oil paintings on canvas. Written more than 1000 poems in my mother tongue "Konkani", about 50 poetries in Malayalam and also in Hindi. I am also writing (in the process) many stories that could be used in making for thriller/paranormal movies. Now I am also trying to sketch some cartoons from November 2011.

I have written a book on "Hortus Indicus Malabaricus" naming "Hortus Malabaricusum Konkanigalude Pangum" (ഹോര്‍ത്തൂസ് മലബാറിക്കൂസും കൊങ്കണികളുടെ പങ്കും) regarding Hortus Malabaricus and the contributions of Konkanis.

This blog includes every activities relating to me, mostly poems, cartoons, pencil & pen sketches of great personalities. Thanks!