We often tend to associate the color black with darkness, and hence with evil.
People who have black skin, naturally find this association offensive. Some years ago an artist with the TIME magazine used the black color to design a cover page on evil, and it lead to widespread protests by the African-American community.
In the following exhibit, I've tried to depict the color black (and the meaning of it) in some new perspectives: as the color of Lord Krishna, as the color of the Monsoons, as the color of the mighty Goddess, and as the color of the elephants.
The first in the series of Blue, Green, Red, and Black:
 Illuminated Entrance to Mysore Palace |  |
See Also:
• Colors of India
• Lord Krishna in Indian Art
• The Indian Elephants
Play with Kamat Community Typewriter
If you are wondering how much time I spent making the blog entry above -- you know, stubbing the pictures, linking the captions, formatting, etc., the answer is less than a minute. Yes, less than a minute, because the Kamat Blogging Engine supports SQL, and I wrote a macro as follows:
[[PicTOC SQL=Select * from ScannedPictures where Instr(Destination, '/black/') >0 ]]
That's it! You can try it yourself in the Community Typewriter!
Play with the SQL, instead of /black/ type /elephants/ or /women/, sort it differently, do whatever!
