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For our New Year page, we chose to showcase the art work of Dr Yamini Menon. A rheumatologist based in the US, she is also a runner and has contributed to this blog before.

The first image is a collage of some of her work done with acrylic paint and markers on wooden trays, boxes, plates, ceramic coasters and a piece of Christmas decoration made of plastic. The second image is a stand alone picture of a tray she painted on. About it, she wrote in: “ acrylic on wooden tray – generally I start off with a dark paint base like black or navy and add other elements as I go along; again nothing planned ahead but comes to fruition at some point. The handles and borders – made to look like woven (an attempt to) using markers.” Most of these works, she gives away as gifts.

What’s life and a New Year, without music? For some years now, we at this blog, have been fans of the Polish progressive rock band, Riverside. Click on the link below for a song, we think, is one of their finest:

(The authors, Latha Venkatraman and Shyam G Menon, are independent journalists based in Mumbai)