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Buddha and the Lame Kid by Nandalal Bose

While paintings of spiritual leaders are ubiquitous, Bose's touching rendition shows Buddha's true compassion and love.

Image: Footfalls of Indian History

Any guesses who's painting this is? Find out in our Christmas special newsletter tomorrow. :)

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Today's Google Doodle is a rare delight! It features Marathi writer and humorist, Purushottam Laxman Deshpande, popularly known by his initials (Pu. La) or as P. L. Deshpande.

Do check out more on @googleindia's feature on 'Maharashtra's Most Beloved Personality'!

A virtual tour of old #Bangalore through the charming cartoons of Paul Fernandes depicting life in the 1960s and 70s.

Source: BBC

Worldwide, and in South Asia, Shias mourn these deaths even today through elaborate processions and gatherings.

Photo: Sewak Ram, "A Muharram Scene", Patna, India c1807. —Victoria and Albert Museum

Muharram is the first month of the Muslim calendar, but not one to celebrate — rather, it is a month of mourning, observed in particular by Shias worldwide.
"The Muharram Festival". Late 1700s.—British Library

And the final word is the heart's want and desire. You shared your words of love with us -- deep rooted, warm, smoldering -- and here is the language of love we created with it. Thank you and much love~

From Fahmida Riaz’s poem ‘Abd’: This ebony body, these arms, the wide breasts/ The essence of my blood has flowed to a single dot/ My veins are stretched with the awareness of the coming moment/ Enough now, slide off the sheets/ Blow out the candles.

Anxiety getting the better of you? Look at these calming, meditative paintings by Biren De who developed the 'Neo-Tantric Style'. The brilliant colours and central luminosity are perhaps attempts to capture the first few moment of creation or his imagination of the divine.

Later, our logo featured Kaamdev, the God of love from Hindu mythology. His bow is supposedly made of sugarcane with a string of honeybees, and his arrows are decorated with five kinds of fragrant flowers.