My recent purchases

I am in Delhi currently.  I am more comfortable shopping in Delhi shops. I got the following from a stationery shop yesterday. 

Staedtler Mars Lumograph Drawing pencils.  Two normal Luxor black sketch pens. One Uniball 1mm black gel pen.

The Staedtler Mars Lumograph Drawing pencils contains 2 pencils each of 2B, 4B, 6B and 8B pencils.  And 1 pencil each of 2H, H, B and HB pencils. They will help me in monochrome portraits.  I will be using sharpeners with these pencils.  I made a mistake of using pencil sharpening knife with portraits drawing pencils earlier. Be it color or be it monochrome.  It is better to use sharpeners with portraits drawing pencils. Not pencils sharpening knife. For Staedtler Luna watercolor pencils pencils sharpening knife is okay as you need to apply and not make strokes.  Basically the question is whether you want the pencils sharp or blunt. Pencil sharpening knife is good for blunt pencils.

The black Luxor sketch pens will be handy in funny caricature of VIPs.

The Uniball 1mm gel pen will be great in funny cartoons drawing. 

Ponniyin Selvan based videos

I am watching a lot many videos in YouTube on Ponniyin Selvan movies review and decoding videos. 

The knowledge gained from these videos are tremendous. A lot of efforts have gone into the making of Ponniyin Selvan 1 and 2. Tremendous brains have coordinated among themselves to give the movies Ponniyin Selvan 1 and 2.

I shall be seeing the hindi dubbed Ponniyin Selvan 2 on 29th evening.  I was keen on music actually and was a little disappointed that songs are less and hymns are more. 

I am eagerly waiting for the release of the movie.

Wishes for a nice day. Namaste 🙏!!

Trailer of Ponniyin Selvan 2

The trailer of Ponniyin Selvan 2 was good.  It didn't reveal the crux of the story.  But revealed a little what interpretation the movie is likely to take.

I couldn't follow the book and relied on YouTube audio books.  Anyways I was reading the English translation of the book. 

It seemed unfair for Oomai Rani to be considered in such a fashion in the story book. I think it could be that Kalki was referring to some aspect of Rajaji life. Not sure what.  I think it is the fact that Shiva has children in hindu stories.

Why Rajaji? I can't understand how Gandhiji could be so hard.  Rationality was the need of the time and irrational education was probably the issue. If you recollect from history Congress guys were sycophants and were interested in higher education abroad and in India.  They avoided Muslim League and this was too costly for India. 

I can't understand the reason why the movie is being released in north India.  Seems to be a South Indian market for the story. And music is amazing.  Two notes subject. What thiruvarur guys made this music scale or something.  

I hope they write it is interpretation of the story or something. 

I shall remain. My own blog post writer.