Welcome To Kalpana
Kalpana is a trilingual website, in English, Hindi and Italian. It is a mix between personal web-pages and a webzine, mainly about India and Italy. You can read more about Kalpana and about me (Sunil) by clicking here.
Recent Additions on Kalpana
New Images
of Animals: The images are organised in different albums -
Animals from Delhi zoo in India -
More images of animals from Delhi zoo in India -
Images of animals from Verona Zoo-Safari park (Italy) - (last images added on 6 January 2012)
New Images
of Birds: The images are organised in different albums -
Painted storks and other migratory birds in Delhi zoo in India -
Some
Common Birds of India
- Birds from Zoo Safari park of Verona,
Italy
(last images added on 5 January 2012)
Images
from International Youth Festival of Delhi, India held in December 2011: The images are organised in different albums -
Dance drama by students of S.K.V. Annie Besant school and others -
Colourful puppet dancers from Brazil -
Odissi dancers, students of Guru Harekrishna Behera -
Street children of Butterflies -
Abhimanyu, a dance drama by Mahindra Rawat and group -
A pot pourri
of contemporary, folk and classical dances by students of Sadhu Vaswani International school of Delhi
(last images added on 28 Dec. 2011)
Mindscapes of Love and Longing:
A new film by Arun Chadha on the issue of disability and sexuality. (added on 26 December 2011)
Water,
Silk and a Ghost - a forgotten story (10 September 2011) - tracing the history of old Ghisigliera canal of Bologna (Italy)
by S. Deepak
Amita Deepak,
playwright and theater director (22 August 2011) - an interview about her new play "A tryst with destiny" dealing with independence of
India and its division into India and Pakistan.
Images from
Brazil: new picture albums from journeys to Brazilia, Goias and Parà states of Brazil in 2011 -
Brazilia, capital of Brazil -
Macaw parrots and natural life from
Amazon rainforests in Belem (Parà) -
More colourful birds from Amazon rain forest -
Goias Velho Villa Esperança -
Goias Velho album 2 -
Goias Velho album 3 -
Amazon river front in Belem (Parà) -
Belem, capital of Parà -
Children project in Abaetetuba Parà -
River journeys around Abaetetuba -
City of Abaetetuba (Last album added on 02 August 2011)
Aparna Sen - an interview with well known actor and director
from India (20 March 2011) -
Rahul Bose - An
interview with well known actor and director from India (21 March 2011) -
Onir -
an interview with well known film director (27 March 2011) - All these interviews were taken at the River to River film festival of
Florence (Italy) in December 2010.
Most Popular pages on Kalpana
The most clicked pages in the English part of Kalpana include: articles about documentary film makers such as Arun Chadha, pages about Indians and Indian associations in Bologna (Italy), introductions to Indian writers who write in Hindi and other Indian languages and are often not known outside India such as Shivani, and some of Sunil's articles such as the Sonali Dasgupta Rossellini story and his selection of best desi blogs from Indian blogosphere.
Kalpana's Blogs
English blog: Arre Kya Baat Hai!
Arre kya baat hai is Sunil's English blog on books, authors,
travels, personal reflections, sexuality, India, Italy, art, history and many such themes. The title Arre kya baat hai comes
from Hindi, an Indian language and depending upon the tone of the voice, it can mean "What's the matter?" or "Wow, how wonderful". This blog
was started in 2005. Some of the more popular posts on this blog include the following:
Women changing rural India - Sarpanch sahib,
Films at
human rights night film festival of Bologna,
a photo-essay on a journey in Mongolia,
Right to orgasm,
Roberto and Sonali Rossolini story,
Dams, development & poor - Medha Patkar,
Arundhati Roy's speech,
Coffee art,
Only sex wins,
Off the beaten track in Delhi,
and
Spirit of Dilli in Bollywood films.
Read Arre kya baat hai (it will open in a new window)
Photoblog: Chayachitrakar
The word Chayachitrakar comes from hindi and literally means, Painter of Shadows. The text accompanying the images is in three languages English, Hindi and Italian. It is Sunil's picture blog.
Digital cameras have given me an opportunity to document my frequent travels to different countries. Each professional passion had its own hazards. Persons writing a lot could end up with writers' elbows and people tapping away on type-writer or computer keys could end up with carpal-tunnel syndrome. Similarly, all of us crazy about digital cameras, could end with a disease called clickitis with stiff and painful index fingers. The images on Chayachitrakar cover different geographical areas in Asia, Africa and Americas and a wide variety of subjects from people, daily life, arts, monuments, dances, animals, flowers, etc.
Take a look at Chayachitrakar (it will open in a new window)
Best Indian/Desi Blogs Kalpana Recommends
Looking for the
best in Indian blogosphere - blogs by Indians, by persons of Indian origins, by adopted Indians and by
persons who love India? Check Kalpana's list of best in the Desi Blog world
including recipe blogs, general blogs and photoblogs. If
your favourite bloggers are missing from this list, suggest it by writing to sunil(at)kalpana(dot)it
Kalpana Image Archives
Kalpana image-archives have thousand of images from different parts of the world. You are welcome to use these images for your blogs and other non-commercial websites, but remember to give proper credit and a link to Kalpana. If you would like some images in higher resolution, contact me.
The images are organised in different categories. You can get a preview of kind of images on Kalpana by checking Akashganga - my Image Wall. You can also explore the images by clicking below on the specific category:
Africa
Under this group, there are images from Congo Brazzaville, Egypt, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa.
South
America
There are images from Brazil, Ecuador and Guyana in this section.
Animals
There are images of different animals from different parts of the world in this section.
Asia 1
Under this group, you will find images from China, Mongolia and Nepal.
Asia 2
There are images from Thailand here.
Birds
There are images different birds from different parts of the world in this section.
Dances
This group presents images of modern and traditional dances from different parts of the world.
Europe
In this section, there are images from Austria, Britain, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia and Switzerland.
Plants and Flowers
There are images of trees, plants and flowers from different parts of the world in these pages.
India
Images from India are grouped according to states - from Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Karnataka, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh states.
Italy 1
In this group you will find images from Emilia Romagna, Lazio, and Lombardia regions of Italy. There are also images from two countries that are located in Italy - San Marino and Vatican city.
Italy
In this group you will find images from Piedmont, Tuscany, Umbria and Veneto regions of Italy.
Italy - Bologna
Since I live in Bologna, there are many images from Bologna. In this group you will also find images of different local cultural events like Par Tot parade, gay and lesbian pride parade, etc.
Italy - Venice Carnival
Images of the beautiful masks and medieval dresses from the carnival of Venice in February 2011.
Download Kalpana Wallpapers
Are you looking for a different look to your desktop or Laptop?
Check the colourful Kalpana wall
papers - there are hundreds of them to choose from and they are all
free. They are organised in different categories such as roses, yellow flowers, monkeys, gods, dances, etc. Come
and take a look. Wallpapers 1 and Wallpapers 2 .
