VarnikaDesigns has started ‘Jugnu’ - A monthly book club to read, reflect, and share knowledge. Books, books and more books for finding the Jugnu - the glow - in you 🙂
JUGNU: the book club by VarnikaDesigns – let’s find the glow in our lives
Museum Memory #108 – Jane Borges
Museum Memory #108 by Jane Borges Novelist, Journalist and Oral Historian Appreciating, absorbing and engaging with art requires time, a whole lot of it. In Mumbai, where I reside, time, for some reason, has always been elusive. Most part of the day is carved out for work, and then the odd, small and big errands,... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year ♥️
2025 was an exciting year for us 🙂 VarnikaDesigns turned 15! VarnikaDesigns Blog turned 10! The Museum Memories Project turned 5! Immense gratitude to each of you for supporting, motivating and inspiring us.
Designing Narratives: How ‘The Museum Memories Project’ Inspired Kareena Vaswani
Kareena Vaswani shares her insights on how ‘The Museum Memories Project’ has profoundly influenced her belief in the power of design as a tool for cultural preservation and storytelling.
Celebrating 10 Years of VarnikaDesigns: A Blogging Journey
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 ❤ ….. When I started, I didn’t realise... Continue Reading →
Why MuMe Matters: Embracing Cultural Heritage
Why MuMe Matters: Embracing Cultural Heritage Usha Varia, Founder, Samoolam, shares with Poulomi, her strategies of empowering the youth of Gaya, Bihar, through cultural heritage by engaging them in what they like to do, from digital marketing to making reels.
Insights from LLDC’s Vibrant Winter Festival 2025
VarnikaDesigns collaborated with LLDC to present to the world their amazing Festival. The blog has videos of interviews with individual artisans. We conceptualised, planned and moderated an interactive discussion between upholders of generations old craft communities from Orissa and Kutch and their custodians - long video link in blog.
Reflecting on Museums: Do They Still Matter in Today’s World?
Wishing everyone a happy, safe, peaceful and healthy 2025. VarnikaDesigns will be 15 this year! We will be reflecting, introspecting, discussing, debating - keeping following us. Thank you 🙂
Adieu 2024 – Welcome 2025 :)
VarnikaDesigns wishes you a very Happy, Healthy, Safe and Peaceful New Year. May 2025 be kind to you ♥️ We are grateful to all the people and institutions for supporting our new ideas in 2024 ♥️ details in link
Asif Shaikh: Championing Indian Craftsmanship and Heritage
Asif Shaikh, acclaimed for his intricate embroidery, is arduously trying to bring textile artisans into the limelight, training their new generation and setting new paradigms for India's centuries old textile heritage. We bring you the story of CDS and 'Walking Hand-in-Hand'.
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