Paper and Paperless

Hi All...

It has been a long time since my blog being updated indeed :)

Being an Origami Enthusiast, every now and then people start to brainwash me saying I waste paper, and All we Origmians, Kirigamian, Paper Quillers or any other Paper Craft enthusiasts are indirectly helping Deforestation...!!!

Well it is indeed a debatable question :)

But I happen to stumble upon some interesting facts in favor of us all Paper Craft Enthusiasts...!!!

Here are they:

Myths & Facts

First and foremost, Pixels are not greener than paper; factually speaking, "20% less CO2 is used per year by a person reading a daily printed newspaper versus a person reading web-based news for 30 minutes a day."
Paper is truly sustainable, bio-degradable and recyclable.

image source: visual.ly

Paper is not only made of wood / bamboo fibre but also, recyclable waste paper as well as agro-residues like bagasse, wheat straw and rice husk.

Wood is not sourced from the native forest but from farmers who are helped to grow a few pulpable varieties of tree like Eucalyptus, Subabul, Acacia, Casurina and Poplar on their de-graded land.

Clonal saplings and silvicultural practices through extention services are provided by the industry players to the marginal farmers for tree plantation.
Green cover is maintained while harvesting after 4-5 years cycle.

image source: British Columbia (gov.bc.ca)

Farmers enjoy an assured market for their produce and get market price in return.
In the process their non-productive land is converted into an economic entity besides greening of arid tracks.
The entire gamut of activity is termed and known as Agro-forestry.

image source: planetfunder.org

It is an unique concept followed predominantly by Indian paper industry for, the Govt. has no production forestry policy alike Canada, Scandanavia, Brazil, China and Indonesia - the global majors.

Unfortunately, India doesn't have any policy in place either for collection, sorting, grading and supply of re-cyclable waste paper like the advanced countries...!!!!



One more interesting read:





Data source:
Indian Paper Manufactures Association
International Paper

Origami Tessallated boxes

Tessallated lids

Swan in flight

Origami swan in flight

Some Abstract Models Folded By Me

An Elephant

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Somaari katte! - A chatters paradise

What we indians usually used to do... Children play around these... Elders sit and talk about themselves and the world... A greeting place which every village and townships in India does have! The barren tree has taken this shape...

What is World Hunger Day?

World Hunger is being commemorated on May 28th

Well you might have read it on Forbes, or heard it on BBC, “May 28th is World Hunger Day” echoing all around media. First of all, why does HUNGER need a day to celebrate? Isn’t everyone in the planet striving to eradicate hunger? Then, why should hunger be given a day to commemorate? For this, let us first understand the stance of hunger in the world.

The population of our beloved world is 7.009 billion in the year 2012 according to sources from United States Census Bureau. This count is drastically growing out of boundaries, creating new issues to curb. Approximately 15% of the world’s total population i.e. 1 billion people lead their life in severe poverty and hunger. Shockingly about 20,000 people die in hunger EVERY DAY!

Why hunger? This is indeed a very deplorable situation which does need an “immediate” attention, even though it is not an illustrious crisis.  Notably, most of the deaths from hunger which are happening all over the world are not because of any natural calamities! Although deaths caused by hunger at the time of natural calamities do exist; it takes only a 10% of total death by hunger’s share. The rest 90% of death is a grand courtesy of chronic hunger! It is drastically spreading to all corners of the world and also rooting strongly in the parts like Africa, Latin America and South Asia.

This entrenched hunger problem is not only due to food scarcity, but also due to deficiency in many aspects. Many people fail to earn income for their daily share of bread because of reasons like: lack of skills and education. Again, the underprivileged sadly have to surrender to chronic hunger to health due to the absence of hospitals, medicines, funds and knowledge about it. These aspects strengthen chronic hunger, therefore, the underprivileged are always in search for a helping hand to raise their voice. Thus “World Hunger Day” was coined to create an awareness of these kinds of situations.

In India, hunger plays a major role in the downfall of the economy, ranking shamefully in 67th place in Global Hunger Index! More than 231 million people in India are undernourished which is the highest than every other country in the world and 42% of India’s children are underweight clearing indication India’s “Chronic Hunger” situation.

Children, once hit by chronic hunger, their education become the primary target! They tend to withdraw their rights to education and health. 12.6 million Children in India seek to work to gratify their self’s and family’s needs of hunger.

As every year, World Hunger Day needs to motivate and inspire people suffering from chronic hunger in under-developed, developing and developed parts of the world. This enables to create a common goal amongst many to realize their strength to curb hunger based upon their own self reliability.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation has been and always will be thriving to wipe out “hunger”, a vision inspired by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. By feeding underprivileged children in schools The Akshaya Patra Foundation is also motivating education. This noble cause to eliminate hunger is also creating new avenues to inspire education at student level.

Let us join hands with The Akshaya Patra Foundation to eradicate hunger. Let us support us on this noble cause to eventuate a “Hunger Free World”.

Bulldog's face in Origami

Folded in sticky notes...

Sunset from my office...

A view of nature's spectacular show from office window...

The Devil's Alibi

Golden Heart with devils horns suggesting that even devils have Heart... Thus the title "The Devil's Alibi"...

Abstract Origami turtle

Turtle or tortoise? Please enlighten me :)

Rare paper diamond

This is happens when you fiddle with paper and light in the dark...

Origami vaccum cleaner

Looks more like a swan, doesn't it? Its a vaccum cleaner... Origami vaccum cleaner...

My dad's origami!

This where i got my Origami skills from... Dad folded this for me in the morning :)

The Rubik Puzzle...

Solved the Rubik cube fair and "square"... ;)

Barren tree

Took half a sunday to make this... Trying to mimic nature closest possible way... :)

Indian rareities

A pomegranate flower

Some of Nature's best

I wonder, can this be mimiced in origami ?

Office sunset

A sunset view from my workplace

Origami tangrammial quadraped

Poodle in geometry... :)

Origami Rakhi

Happy Rakshabandan... :)

Flying birdie horsie thingie

Dunno what i've folded... :)

Friereye

Lotus eye on flames...

Origami padlock

From silly little me Heart...
Trying to be open...
Then again why the lock?

Vatapatrashaayi in Origami

Young Srikrishna on Banyan leaf

Colour in black and white 2

This is what happens when you tease the paper with pencil...

Colour in black & white

This is what happens when you tease the paper with pencil...

Pinky singh

Just playing around with puppetery... :)

Origami carrot and eggplant

Straight from the Origami farm...

I used to fold these for the navaratri festival with great joy :)

Yes, there are more vegetables where these came from... Sadly i have forgotten how i used to fold them, i will recall and fold them once again very soon...

Kusudama 2

Kusudama

Haven't folded this in a long time...

Origami horse cart 5

Origami horse cart 4

Origami horse cart 3

Origami horse cart 2

Origami horse cart 1

And no its not a single paper model...

Kawasaki roses

How is it thee...?

After effects of rain

Near mandya on the way to melkote

Me n my cat

Named it "Manku"