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DEDICATED TO MY GURU: ARTIST SILPI
Silpi brought the temple Garbagrahas (sanctum sanctorum) to the homes of the devotees – this is the thought in many viewers’ mind when they look at the paintings of deities by Silpi, born Srinivasan. One might say that there is not a temple in the length and breadth of India that he had not visited or drawn/painted the images of the gods and goddesses enshrined in them. With the blessings of the Paramacharya Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam and as per his advice, Silpi undertook to painting the images of the deities as they were with all the minor details, without adding or deleting or interpolating his own imagination. The process of painting the deities in the temples was like a meditation for him, and from the first moment he began it was as though the divine hand guided him at every step.

P.M. Srinivasan was born in Namakkal near Salem , though his ancestors were originally from Nagappattinam. He was more interested in drawing than going to school for formal education. It was his good fortune that he met the well known patriotic poet Namakkal Ramalingam Pillai, who was also a good artist; he encouraged Silpi and sent him to Madras (Chennai) to join the School of Arts & Crafts. He mastered the technique of pen and ink drawing so well that the principal of the School D.B. Roy Choudhury considered him better than many of the western artists known for their pen and ink drawings.

When he was still a student at the School, Silpi got to know artist Mali , who was a cartoonist and in charge of the art department at the popular Tamil weekly ‘Anandavikatan’. Silpi was very attracted to Mali ’s work, while the senior was quite impressed by Silpi’s talent and encouraged him to contribute to the magazine. Mali used to insist that the young aspirant should draw a certain number of pictures everyday. After completing his course in the School, Mali invited him to join ‘Anandavikatan’. Silpi had done numerous studies of people traveling in the tram in which he used to commute and his relatives and friends. He used to cover political and social events for the magazine; instead of photographs the magazine used to publish his drawings when reporting the events. Thus so many political leaders, foreign visitors, philanthropists etc have been portrayed by him and most of the time he also got them to autograph his drawings.
Srinivasan was rechristened ‘Silpi’ by Mali , as he used to draw with every little detail ancient stone and metal sculptures in the temples as also the temples themselves. Soon he started to specialize in that genre of work. Being very pious, he was also a devotee of the Paramacharya Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi of Kanchi Kamkoti Peetam. The sage advised him to concentrate on covering as many temples as possible in the country and depict the sculptures. He had visited numerous temples in the nooks and corners of the country, with minimum transport facilities available in those days; in many small villages there were no proper places to stay even. But all those problems never seemed to bother him.

In the main shrines of temples there is no other light except that from the oil lamps and perhaps a little from the entrance. Silpi never used any artificial lighting to do his work. Ordinary devotees are not allowed to enter the sanctum sanctorum or Garbagriha. But Silpi had the special privilege of entering that consecrated chamber and allowed to draw the images from close quarters. He would go there after a bath when there are not many visitors. Before starting to draw, Silpi would spend a few minutes in meditation praying to the god to guide him to do a proper depiction in all the forty days, five hours a day that took him to complete the work; and the result would appear as if the gods themselves had drawn the pictures through the artist. While the stone carvings, be it sculptures in the full or reliefs, or the architectural details, were drawn meticulously in pen and ink, the deities in the shrines were painted with the exact tone of colours, every fine details of the jewellery, the floral decorations, the softly burning oil lamps, the smoke from the incense and the smears of kumkum (vermillion) or the sandal paste. He would first draw the details of the jewellery separately looking at them from close quarters. The priests were willing to listen to his suggestions and would adorn the flower garlands without disturbing the dieties’ images; sometimes Silpi himself was allowed to decorate the images, such was his devotion and reputation.

When sketching the external parts of the temples he used to perch himself at odd places, sometimes at the edge of cornices hardly ever minding the physical discomfort. Even the widest angle camera cannot capture the totality of the temple premises as he could in his depictions. Even the smallest sculpture on the top of a tower would appear in his drawings, which often would escape a less keen eye. From 1

Here, Narayana and his consort Lakshmi adorned with fresh flowers and precious jewelry
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To day is the First Day of Month Margzhi, our dawn visit to temple is a regular one for the next 30 days. To morrow is The auspicious Day of Vaikunta Ekadasi,. It is believed , in this day our Dear God come down to earth and visit us.

On behalf of all flickr friends, we place few requests and prayers , so we can keep him busy in the year ahead. I am confident Our Good Lord will heed to our request.


1. Obliterate the existing barrier between religions
2. Remove the border between countries
3. Banish poverty, illiteracy and disease among your subjects.
4. Copenhagen ended unsuccessfully, so do not change the climate
5. Send abundant Hydro power, Sun Power and wind power, so can avoid carbon FP.
6. Let not the so called scientist probe your universal secrets, so can save resources
7. Remove Weapons of Mass Destruction , real and imaginary from face of this earth
8. Erase the words, Terrorism, Maoism, Religious extremism, Naxalism, Drug lordism, War lordism and all it's synonyms from Encyclopedia
9. Finally, let not the scientists invent new machinery to treat disease thus creating more diseases so the gadgets can be put to money making business.
10. Banish the greediness in the minds of Politicians, Apothecaries, Attorneys.
AND Educationists, so can common man live happily ever after.

SO HELP THE PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD GOD. WE ARE YOUR CHILDREN. THANK YOU.

(This image is from the Sanctum Sanctorium of a Hindu Temple in Chennai, where normally photography is not allowed. I had the opportunity to shoot, since I had the divine opportunity to renovate and refurbish the temple few years ago) With great pleasure I am sharing this divine image with Flickr friends,)