So it’s 10 years – a decade of writing a blog – this is the 160th post, 3 in the draft and a few more in my mind!!! Thank you for being a part of the VarnikaDesigns blog’s journey, for being a reader, motivator and inspiration ❤
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When I started, I didn’t realise I would be able to sustain it, was more like an experiment to see if I could write something and put it out there, in the public, an extremely task for an introvert and private person like but it’s been quite good, I enjoy hunting for stories that would interest the readers, researching for facts and then crafting the words 😊
As one of my favourite poem states:
“… I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
(‘The Road Not Taken’, Robert Frost)
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Why is the blog called VarnikaDesigns? It’s named after my company that I found in 2010. ‘Varnika Bhangam’ means similitude of colours and my work aspires to be accessible and inclusive where all colours of humanity converge 😊 it is one of the 6 limbs of Indian painting as explained by Abanindranath Tagore.
Here’s the explanation:
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Have compiled some posts that are intended as a series:
Indian Designers, then and now:
Riten Mozumdar: https://varnikadesigns.blog/2021/06/04/riten-mozumdar-free-indias-first-textile-designer/
Vikas Satwalekar: https://varnikadesigns.blog/2021/02/05/vikas-satwalekar-colour-personified/
Asif Shaikh: Asif Shaikh: Championing Indian Craftsmanship and Heritage
Priyanka Tolia: https://varnikadesigns.blog/2019/06/25/meet-the-family-chitkus-story/
Anuj Sharma: https://varnikadesigns.blog/2018/10/02/1666/
The Amar, Anthony and Ashdeen of Design
Usha Prajapati: https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/craft-crochet-and-social-change-come-together-at-samoolam/article22242445.ece
Sandeep Sangaru: https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/homes-and-gardens/lost-and-found/article22999520.ece?homepage=true
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Santiniketan, then and now:
The young boy who didn’t like going to school
The world’s nest at Santiniketan
The Santiniketan Express: to melody and peace
Palash: the Flame of the Forest flower
Nobel Prize for Economics & the Santiniketan connection
Tribute to Santiniketan: UNESCO World Heritage Site
Amar Kutir: revolutionaries, Batik & local culinary delight!:
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A 5 part tribute to Rajmata Gayatri Devi and her school MGD, my alma mater:
Part 1: From Ayesha to Gayatri and how
Part 2: The Gayatri Devi ‘Aandhi’
Part 3: A passionate affair begins
Part 4: Rajmata’s other love: the City Palace Museum, Jaipur
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