About Kalpana & about sunil Deepak
Hello & welcome to Kalpana. Kalpana is a trlingual website in English, Hindi and Italian. Its motto is "Creativity with social consciousness".
About me: Sunil Deepak
My name is Sunil. I am originally from India
but I have been living in
Bologna (Italy) for a long time. I love living in
Bologna, it is a beautiful and culturally alive place to live in.
I am a doctor by profession and I work for an Italian voluntary organisation
based in Bologna (Italy) called
AIFO. I am also the
chief writer, planner and designer
of Kalpana.
I am quite passionate about environment. I am all for open-source. I am not enthusiastic about multinationals and what they represent. I am suspicious about genetically modified organisms. I love history, art, films, music, museums, photography, archeology, reading and writing. I also like clouds and rains. I love chatting with friends. I like cooking as well. I am passionate about reading all kinds of books. I love my bicycle.
I am married and I have a grown-up son and a daughter in law.
You can write to me at: sunil(at)kalpana.it [substitute (at) with an @ in the email]
Mixed Doubles: You, I and Our Gods
Mixed Doubles is a new sociological research by Sunil. This research looks at love and relationships between people of different religions. Read more about this research and join it for sharing your own ideas and experiences on this subject. I also need your help in spreading information about this research so that more persons know about it and can join it. Please write about it on your blogs and share links about it on facebook, twitter and G+. Thanks in advance for your help. Read more ...
About Kalpana
Kalpana is a trilingual webzine in English, Italian and Hindi. It is a completely non-commercial site. Its motto is Creativity with social consciousness. Kalpana presents my own works, as well as those of my extended family, my friends and of persons that I like.
The word Kalpana comes from Hindi and means imagination.
It started as a small personal webpage and has growing steadily especially in terms of my pictures ever since I started using a digital camera. It has thousands of images from my travels in Asia, Europe, Africa and Americas, especially from India and Italy.
Origins of Kalpana
Kalpana started around the end of 2001 as Srijan. The main reason for starting Srijan was my desire to present the writings of my father, who had died when I was quite young. He was a writer and journalist and this website became my way of discovering him through his writings. Slowly, I started adding to it other things and it grew.
In 2005, Srijan found its own server and became Kalpana.
For writers, artists, film-makers
Take a look around in Kalpana to see the kind of persons who present their works here. If you feel that you would like to have a portfolio page on Kalpana to introduce your work, write to me. Kalpana can be useful in reaching audience in Italy and in India.
If you write stories, articles, poetry, etc., you can present your works on a webzine or on a blog. Kalpana does not have frequent updates so it is more a portfolio site to present a global view of artists. Therefore, please do not send me any articles, stories or poetry for Kalpana.
Kalpana has no commercial aims of any kind. For presenting your works on Kalpana, I can not pay you anything. On the other hand, you will not have to pay me anything and I will do all the work for adding information about you on Kalpana. I also believe in creative Commons, you are welcome to use materials from Kalpana as long as you give a proper credit.
In case of any doubts, write to me at - sunil(at)kalpana.it (substitute "(at)" with "@" for sending the email)
New layout of Kalpana
(Updated in December 2010) I was never very good at technology. I had worked on building the "Srijan" website with a limited knowledge of HTML. When I shifted to Kalpana, I continued with the same HTML. However, in the mean time, the number of pages in Kalpana was increasing, especially after I bought my first digital camera in 2004.
Slowly, Kalpana became very hard to update and manage. To change any thing, I had to change all the pages manually. By the time, I finished with something, it took me months of patient, boring and repetitive work, so often I never completed doing something!
Thus finally in August 2008, I decided to change the layout of Kalpana. After almost 1 year of work, I realised that working in the old fashioned way with HTML was no longer possible and that it was time to learn something more about making web-pages. Some of the more technically advanced friends suggested that I should shift to some CMS like Joomla or Wordpress, but in the end I have decided to stick with my HTML coding but to make the pages with CSS.
From the decision to shift to CSS based website in September 2009, it took me almost four months to decide the design of this website, and to learn basics of CSS. After lots of trials, I have finally decided on a minimalist design.
I know it is not a perfect website, rather the opposite. There are many better looking and interesting personal websites. But I feel very proud of Kalpana and of all the work I have done, by patiently hand-coding each page of the new layout. I feel that I have been very fortunate to be able to satisfy my creativity by making it the way I wanted to. Slowly, page by page! Plodding for days, trying again and again, till I get some kind of look that I like.
If you find things that do not work on Kalpana, please do me a favour and write to me about it. Thank you in advance.
Write to me
As you can see from the last bit about changing the layout of "Kalpana", it has been hard and lonely task. Thus, to get occasional bits of appreciation from people who stumble here is greatly appreciated! So please do write in.
Kalpana does not have a page where you can leave comments. I don't know how to set it up. But you can add a comment to my English blog or you can write an email to me at - sunil(at)kalpana.it. Once in a while I do answer my emails!
