Archive for August, 2011
Ducks
Posted in art, tagged Benny Thomas, postcard, watercolor on August 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Gathering of Gulls -pen drawing
Posted in art, tagged 2003, Benny Thomas, birds, black and white, pen, sea gulls on August 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
News on the March- climate control
Posted in current news, tagged American politics, humor, M. Bachman, Presidential candidates on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a piece of news that every American ought to read with care: Hurricane Irene and the recent East coast earthquake were directed at America’s politicians, according to a statement from Michele Bachmann The Minnesota congresswoman and presidential candidate told an audience gathered at a Shriner’s temple in Sarasota, Fla., Sunday that God was [...]
Grand Gazelle-sketch
Posted in animals, tagged Benny Thomas, black and white, drawing, pen and ink on August 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
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How Did Deserts Come About?
Posted in short story, tagged Benny Thomas, camels, deserts, humor, sunday story, The pleasantres of Mulla Nasruddin on August 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When the merchant prince al- Marauf thought he would cross the Arabian desert he asked his friends if they felt inclined to accompany him. None wanted to make the journey. Disheartened at the polite refusal the merchant asked Mulla Nasruddin who out of the blue had dropped in. He asked if he felt up to [...]
landscape art- delicate arch, Arizona
Posted in art, tagged 1988, Benny Thomas, colored cardboard, pastel, pen on August 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mulla Nasruddin-comic strip-#7
Posted in cartoons, tagged Benny Thomas, black and white, comic strips, Mulla Nasruddin, Sultan What's- his- name- again on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Pen Portraits- the Bard of Avon
Posted in personalities, tagged Globe Theater, Hamlet, literature, quotable quotes, sonnets, The Tragedies on August 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) British Dramatist and poet The colossous who bestrode English literary scene with his immortal plays so diverse in subject, unrivalled in brilliance and depth, ironically remains still an enigma. Even its authorship has been doubted by scholars and critics who have analysed his plays – confronted with works of such [...]
Pen Portraits- Baruch Spinoza
Posted in personalities, tagged atheism, Bruno, Descartes, dualism, Dutch, eternal order, ethics, excommunication, Goethe, inquisition, modes, Philosopher, Uriel a Costa on August 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677) Dutch Philosopher The greatest of the modern philosophers brought rational approach to the enquiry of great questions like God and human destiny. He laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment. His masterpiece Ethics never found light of the day in his lifetime. The reason was simple. He was excommunicated* for his [...]
Notice
Posted in notice on August 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I shall not be able to blog as I was used to at least for some time. Here is wishing all my readers everything that I can wish for myself and lastly but not the least my thanks go to the movers and shakers of WordPress without whose help I would have been speechless. benny [...]
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