Hi All, This is a coffee portrait painting. This based on Ravi Varma painting. I worked with Artist Uma during my holidays to hone my coffee painting skills. From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous Painting: Aha Moment 59 – There is more to life than increasing its speed! – Gandhi From The Aha [...]

Hi All, My latest painting using coffee on canvas. Aha Moment 59 – There is more to life than increasing its speed! – Gandhi From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous Painting: Anguli Chaap – In search of my identity From The Aha Moment of the Week All my paintings can be found here.

Hi All, Here is my latest art work using Coffee. Idea Source: Craft work by Rashmi Sulakhe. From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous Art work: Aum Skandagrajaya Namah From The Aha Moment of the Week All my art works can be seen here:

Dear all, Coffee With Sundar successfully completes 4 years today! Along the way, it has met many people who personified passion and purpose.. Today is no different. Please join me to welcome Mr. Srinivas, founder of Chroma Academy. The Chroma Academy began its activities in the year 2000 with the aim of being a nodal [...]

Dear readers, Coffee With Sundar completes 4 years today and is continuing to search for Indian role models into the 5 th year! Thanks for all the support! Happy birthday Coffee With Sundar! Image Source: http://www.zazzle.com

Many men dream in the night! A good number dream in the bright sunlight.. A few dream for the society! Today we have Mr. Bhaskar from easyblood, with an initiative to build a network of voluntary blood donors. As per WHO reports, India faces an acute shortage of blood donors (62 lac units) which results [...]

Hi All, This is my first attempt at using coffee powder as paint. Aum Ganeshvaraya Namah Salutation to the lord of categories From The Aha Moment of the Week Previous painting can be seen below. Aum Gauriputraya Namah Salutation to the son of Gauri From The Aha Moment of the Week All my art works [...]

Aum Gauriputraya Namah Salutation to the son of Gauri From The Aha Moment of the Week Medium: Canvas Paint: Acrylic Idea: UK design studio Previous Art work – Aum Vighnarajaya Namah – Salutation to the ruler of obstacles From The Aha Moment of the Week All my arts work can be found here.

Hi All, Welcome to the show on Coffee With Experts! Today we have a young Indian entrepreneur who decided to take the road less travelled in chasing her dreams in the music industry. Aishwarya, started India Nuance – an artist management firm with a focus on Indian classical music. Her start up in the field [...]

Hi All, The first part of the interview with Mr. Mehmood Khan can be found here. Me: How do you ask a young kid to go school when they dont have food to eat.. I know education adds value.. but the returns are so long dated.. The current problem should be resolved first right? I [...]

Hi All, My latest art work is here.  The concept is based on the song Tum Ho Tho from the movie rock on. The lady (here) is playing that song in this contemporary indian painting as a dedication to her lover. Concept: Tum ho tho.. Medium: Poster colour on acrylic. From The Aha Moment of the [...]

Wish you all a very happy 2012! Check out the new year message from CWS – Be a Seeker! Happy 2011! In the new year, CWS continues the search of role models for Indian youth! Today, we have a very very special guest – Mr. Mehmood Khan, Former head of global innovation at Unilever, who [...]

Hi All, Time just flies.. 31.5 million seconds have silently ticked away from the start of the year. I vividly remember this day last year.. I had taken a day off from work to clean up the website and write the message – “Be Awesome – Happy 2011“.. Between that day and today, CWS has [...]

Hi All, I am very happy to inform you that I sold my first piece of art today. My colleague at work purchased the art work as a Christmas gift for her husband. From The Aha Moment of the Week Ofcourse, still a long way to go.. The journey has just began.. And the rest as they [...]

Hi all, Continuing my focus on Contemporary Indian art, here is my own idea… The woman is playing violin all day long and losing herself into the violin.. Losing myself to you.. Oh you violin! All my earlier art works can be seen below.

Hi All, My tryst with art started out as fun activity with random attempts at Cartooning! Today, It has come a long way from that.. Well, this is my 50th art piece! Thanks a lot for all the support. This contemporary Indian art piece is based on the concept – Just play it! The subject [...]

Hi All, Here is my latest art work – Beat the drums! It is painted using acrylic on canvas. From The Aha Moment of the Week All my art works can be seen below. Thoughts and feedback welcome!

“Creativity comes from constraint” ~ Biz Stone, Co-Founder, Twitter In today’s show in search of role models, CWS introduces you to a person who created Honey Bee Network to support grassroots innovators who are rich in knowledge, but not in resources. Please join me in welcoming Padmashri Anil Gupta. Mr. Gupta found ways of capturing [...]

Hi All, This is my latest work.. Inspired by a combination of a recent violin concert which I attended.. and art works of Deepa vedpathak.. which I have attempted here The concept of the art is – “Oh you.. violin”.. there is a pun here.. the girl has fallen in love with this violin which [...]

Hi All, I am very pleased to inform you all.. that Aha Moments has clocked 1,25,000+ views since I started working on Arts in March 2010. One of my recent favourite work is the one which I painted for celebrating 100 interviews on CWS! From The Aha Moment of the Week Thank you very much [...]

Hi All, Continuing the part 1 & part 2 of the interview with Padmashree Ananda Shankar Jayant, today we have the part 3 of the interview with Mrs. Ananda Shankar Jayant Please find the TED Video of Mrs. Jayant here. Me: Sundar Rajan G S ASJ: Ananda Shankar Jayant – Padmashree Awardee – Contribution to [...]

Hi All, Please find my latest art work below. The concept is “Unmask! Unleash the potential within!” and the subject is an African tigress mask. It is made in Canvass using poster colours. From The Aha Moment of the Week My entire collection of art works can be seen here.

Bliss – The state of extreme happiness is a journey, not a destination. It is something to be experience, not something to be obtained! This is the message of this spiritual poem. Paramaanandham – My 52nd poem. பரமானந்தம் ஆனந்தம்.. ஒரு பனி துளி படையை வைத்து.. அடைய துணிந்தால்.. பனி துளி வெறும் விழி துளி.. ஆனந்தம்.. ஒரு குயில் கூவல்.. [...]

“To dance is to live….to live is to dance.” ~ Heidi Groskreutz Today we have a special guest.. someone for whom dance is an integral part of life… someone who lives and breathes dance.. A strong woman who danced her way out of cancer! Please join me to welcome the renowned classical dancer and a [...]

Hi All, Here is my latest art work. Acrylic paint on Canvas. “Namaste – The divine bow” From The Aha Moment of the Week Bow to the divine within.. Bow to the divine around.. From The Aha Moment of the Week All my art works can be found here: Aha Moments Album

Lover of art (Kalai kaadhalan) and the artist beauty (Kalai Azhagi) are speaking the language of silence! This is my 51st poem.. and easily one of my best works! மௌனம் இதழ்கள் அசையா வார்த்தைகளை.. உன் விழிகள் பேசுதடி.. உன் இதையத் துடிப்பின் ஓசைகளை.. என் செவிகள் கேட்குதடி.. கலை அழகி, எதிரொலிக்குதடி உன் மௌனம்.. Previous poem is Vilagaadha Viragam – http://coffeewithsundar.com/50th-poem-vilagaadha-viragam/ [...]

Hi All, Here are some “different” types of art which I have tried over the last few weeks.. The first one is to celebrate 100 interviews on CWS If you notice deeply, the male and female in the image is just made of triangles.. From The Aha Moment of the Week I saw many such [...]

“And somewhere there are engineers Helping others fly faster than sound. But, where are the engineers Helping those who must live on the ground?” – Young Oxfam Poster Todays special guest is a true engineer, who helps people living on ground.. Please join me to welcome Mr. Arvind Gupta. Arvind Gupta is a toy inventor [...]

Vilagaadha Viragam This is my 50th poem and it is inspired by the book – I too had a love story. The hero falls in love with a girl, proper arranged marriage.. but the girl dies before he could marry her. This poem brings out the frustrations of the hero, who lost his love and [...]

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Chinese Coffee With Sundar (CWS) hosted its 100th Interview show last week with the interview of Mr. Narayanan Krishnan – CNN Hero of the Year 2010.  CWS made its humble beginnings three and half years ago. It stood the test of time, met many [...]