In the Bazaar of Love

There is something about this title that compelled
me take up the cover.In the Bazaar of Love is a very strong,
evocative title.Somehow it holds equal weight as
"The Kite Runner" for me.
I enjoyed painting the type form here.

Amir Khusrau was a Sufi mystic, a poet and
is regarded as the father of "qawalli"

Kama Sutra

I love Minimalism. It so very well relates to the phrase "Less is More"
To make the cover look minimalistic and powerful is a challenge on it's own.
It was difficult to get the accurate ground color but the colors in the final book
have come out beautifully.

Becoming Buddha

Buddhism is something that never fails to draw my attention.
The monks, their culture, their music is very fascinating.
This is the approved cover. It has been produced beautifully and has a nice textural feel to it.

The cover below is the one that got disapproved.

Blue Blood

This book belongs to that period when India had almost achieved Independence but some of the royals were still in India. There are interesting stories about Indian maharajas married to royal princesses. Blue Blood denotes those royals who always stayed inside palaces and never toiled under the sun so their blood became Blue.

The cover photograph is by Pritom Ghosh, an amateur but quite an enthusiast, based in Kolkata.

This was one of my quick designs.

Khali Kitaab ka Jadoo

Calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting. I remember when we were kids, our calligraphy teacher used to come with his suitcase loaded with different varieties of pens. His favourite student used to make the suitcase a pillow and practice on it.

He once told us how he got frisked at the airport where security thought that the pen was actually a bomb! He landed up doing calligraphy at the airport and describing how he made those pens. I am sure the security personnel were impressed.

I had lost touch with calligraphy but with Hindi books i feel that there is a potential to take my writing further to the next level. Here, i enjoyed writing more than designing the cover.