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Dancing elephants celebrate the lord Ganesha in this riveting animated film that builds to a crescendo of musical bliss. This is an original work, which took seven months to create, with 4,500 frames, all hand-drawn and colored by the artist single-handedly. During the festival of Ganesh Chaturti, the last time devotees get to see their beloved lord Ganesha is before immersion. But no one knows what happens underwater. This film is a blend of fact, myth & fantasy, which talks about the journey of an immersed image underwater. All the immersed clay images, each one with innovative iconography, get animated (indicating the presence of prana). Their energy and merrymaking finally make the God himself appear, to collect prana from all the images. This leaves inanimate clay objects, which quickly dissolve into formlessness. This formless state of clay only lasts for a short time, though. In next year's festival the prana again regains its iconic form. In this respect it replicates t...

Once again whole intellectual media is fighiting over who was responsible for creating Pakistan and if Mohammad Ali Jinnah really wanted Pakistan. I will leave this for you readers. I came across this piece from indiatimes blog which you can read here There's at least one thing Jaswant Singh has said about Partition that is correct -- far from ensuring peace and communal harmony, it actually worsened the situation and left both India and Pakistan a legacy of hate and mistrust. It ensured that two poor nations would engage in an arms race neither could really afford, culminating in their acquiring nuclear weapons. And the unfinished agenda of Partition still festers, in the form of Kashmir.