Neha's Notebook

WHAT IS “RASA”? “Rasa” is a Sanskrit word which implies the meaning “nectar”, “juice”, “essence”, “taste”, “sap of grain”, “flavour”, “consciousness”, “bliss” and likewise.   The concept of “rasa” points to the ‘ emotional flavours’ crafted and encrusted in a poem or a piece of writing, by the writer, with a reader/recipient/aesthete “sensitive enough”, to feel/absorb the emotional flavour represented through the work of writing or poetry.   The evocation of rasa is a result of a skillful application of the infusion of emotions and moods into a brilliant piece of poetry, drama, visuals or any other art form.   A connoseiur in the field of understanding rasas is known as rasika.   10 POINTS ABOUT “RASA THEORY #1 Rasa theory is an ancient theory in the fields of Indian Poetics ( Kavya-shastra ), Indian Theatre ( Natya-Shastra ) & Indian Aesthetics ( Saundarya-shastra) .   #2  It was first brought up by Bharata Muni – An anc...

  7 CONFLICTS THAT WILL BOGGLE YOUR MIND! #1  “laugh” and  “laaf” Why do we spell & write the word “ laugh ” as “laugh” and not “laaf” ? (despite the fact that both the words sound exactly the same)   #2  “cat” and  “pasta” How do we instinctively (and so easily!) discriminate between the two different sounds as pronounced by the alphabet “t” in these two words? What causes our mind to grasp this difference?   #3  “books these read us let.” “Let us read these books.” Why does the first sentence make no sense to our mind whereas with just a simple regrouping of words, the second sentence immediately makes sense?   #4  “Let’s cook Bunty!” “Let’s cook, Bunty!” Why and how come a single comma makes the difference of heaven and hell in these two sentences?   #5 “The bear eats a leaf.” “The leaf eats a bear.” How does the meaning of the sentence alters drastically just by shifting the places of th...

  WRITING LETTERS – AN ANCIENT CRAFT Writing letters is a process that is as ancient as the human.   Unlike humans, bees or tigers don’t write letters. Neither do chimpanzees or dinosaurs. (I’m not sure about this!)   Writing letters is a brilliant way to express what you want to say.   Letters not only help us to transmit messages or communicate information, but also to record our day-to-day experiences and thoughts in the form of written narratives.   The first Mughal emperor wrote a series of letters in his diary Baburnama to document his life journey.   Persians used to transmit war-related messages via the pigeon posts, tying their letters to the necks of their homing pigeons and fluttering them away while the trained birds carefully delivered the letters to their respective destination.   Beethoven wrote love letters to an imaginary character he called as his immortal beloved.   Then arrived the era of postcar...

  OVERVIEW Sentence Switch is a super-interesting technique that you can employ to add the elements of fun and interest to your writing…   Let us see what this is all about!   WHAT IS SENTENCE SWITCH? Sentence switch is a writing technique which represents a switch in the  ​​ point of view when one sentence or clause is switched to a second sentence or clause which represents a contradictory point of view in relation to the first sentence or clause.   Sentence Switch technique is rooted in the life’s fundamental quality of conflict, contradiction, duality and polarity of life. It represents the betraying uncertainty of life; the twists and turns of life; like riding on a see-saw or playing dice where the outcome is uncertain among a set of possibilities. In creative copywriting, ‘sentence switch’ is sometimes also referred as ‘Sentence Twist’ or the ‘twists and turns’ writing style. ...

INTRODUCTION Are you a multipassionate writer with a love for all things related to words, colors, art & notebooks?   Well, so am I, too!   In this video show, I explore the intersection between writing and visual art by sharing some ideas about combining the two mediums through the creative process of art journaling.   WHAT IS AN ART JOURNAL? Also known by the terms ‘visual journal’ or ‘art diary’, an ‘art journal’ is a daily journal or notebook which often combines elements like words, sketches, drawings and other mixed media assortments such as collages, scraps, photographs, paintings and clippings!   From TikTok style asmr’s to throughly crafted chunky books, nowadays both the online as well as offline world is bubbling with a brobdingnagian amount of art journal ideas.   There are oodles of possibilities!   I’ll share twelve of these ideas with you from my knowledge and experience.   So, let’s breeze through! ...