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Mandala Art: The Circle Of Life symbolically and literally
represent and mean the
During this Universe, and depict the
Lockdown period, we symmetry and the wholeness of
often come across a body.
advertisements, Mandalas can be a synthesis of
offering to train us black and white, as well as of
online on how to draw Mandalas. other colours, which signify the
So, let us know what Mandalas different shades of life.
are. Being pieces of eye-catching
Mandalas are geometrical Atreyi Mukherjee, VII A (DS) artwork, Mandalas have found
designs, often concentric circles, a prominent position in living
inside which there is an Mandalas have a deep and rooms and drawing rooms of
extraordinary fusion of intricate significant spiritual meaning, houses, in hotels, and in lobbies
shapes and patterns. Not only both in Buddhism and in of restaurants.
circles, but also other geometric Hinduism, and are used for Debapriya Majumdar, VIII C
outlines can constitute a Mandala. meditation. Mandalas (DB)

Say Hey To The Madman! have soon turned serious if Natalie Portman
wouldn’t have been cast in Thor 4. But we were
contd. After page 7 wrong, Thor wanted Gal Gadot to play Jane
his fiancée into lamb chops. I don’t know why all Foster and we couldn’t free her from the DC
of this happens with me, but I strongly believe that people in time! He did not forgive us and it was a
my window was the obstruction between the hell of a night! Even though my house is on higher
talented young boy and his cricketing deeds. I felt ground, the rain washed up my hippie shoes,
drowsy and sat back on the couch. That’s when I which I was not too keen to give for dry-cleaning.
noticed the heap of wet clothes staring at me from The worst part is that I was too over-confident with
the armchair in front of me. I had completely how stealthy I am. I wasn’t prepared to put
forgotten about the wet clothes so I wanted them washing powder into my shoes when it would be
to be forgotten, forever! I switched on the drenched by the rain. It was really bad because I
television set and tuned in to my favourite channel used to smell something really bad near my
hoping that they would be airing something I may porch, but I couldn’t figure out what was it coming
like. Unfortunately, they were airing the most from. Then I noticed that my neighbor started to
depressing show ever created, which is “Thomas grow these weird and ugly looking lilies in his
and his friends”. Not only does it preach global backyard. I had to stop going to his house
warming, it also makes children believe that there because he had a weird habit of shaking
are actually trains which can “drive” themselves everyone’s hand and whenever I saw him he was
and “talk” while doing so! Just kidding! I love it…I playing with his obnoxious little flowers. These
just hate the fat person in a tuxedo who thinks he kinds of incidents occur every day, and it was on
can talk to a train. one fine morning that I decided to leave this
Well I thought things couldn't get any worse than troublesome life behind once and for all. This was
this, but then, my expectations deceived me... At an abrupt decision but I think it paid off because
first I didn't initially care much about the rain, now I am living a life beyond my worst
because I was more into thinking about fixing my imaginations. I think I need to see a psychiatrist
window. But unfortunately the rain didn't stop soon because I am turning insane or that’s what I
within an hour like it usually does. It went on and think. Insanity is doing the same thing over and
on mercilessly. Suddenly I saw a few human-like over again and expecting different results. Every
figures jumping outside my house. I knew for sure day in the morning after drinking a cup of tea, I
that it was Joker kicking batman around because always see the sun shining in the sky. The thing
he didn’t realise that this was San Marcos, not is that on weekends I expect the moon to shine at
Gotham. Sadly, they turned out to be regular daytime! These things really set me off, don’t
people after proper examination. The people they?
outside my house were hustling to shift all their
outdoor stuff inside to some higher land, because Prajna Halder, Shreya Samanta, Ritam Ghosh,
the rain was leading to a minor flood which might Rohit Bag, Uttiya Gupta, X IGCSE