A brush with grief, loss and hope

And while Bombay, the city of my childhood, suffers through the horrors of a terror attack (and its aftermath), the entertainment value of art and music seems so inconsequential and immaterial. And yet, it is through these "renovating virtues" that..

..whence–depressed
By false opinion and contentious thought,
Or aught of heavier or more deadly weight,
In trivial occupations, and the round
Of ordinary intercourse – our minds
Are nourished and invisibly repaired...

Art... the renovating virtue; through which our minds are nourished and invisibly repaired. Catharsis through art, if you will.. though neither words nor paintings will heal easily.

Also: 1, 2, 3.

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