"The ability to feel, to see, to discover, to think, to build and model, communicate and to evaluate form the core of design learning..." M P Ranjan, NID, 2004 In July 2002, Suranjana Satwalekar initiated me into the blitzkrieg of Design. Bewildered and gawky, I started with thinking that when NIDians went for a... Continue Reading →
The Conflictorium is a museum very different from what we are used to in India: it addresses personal and large scale conflicts, issues we pretend that don’t exist in India in this sector. I was struck by the positive, stark reality of the relevance of the museum, conveyed in the most effective and emotional manner.... Continue Reading →
This is a post I never thought I would have to write, and have been avoiding writing for two weeks. But it is important to share with everyone as it is about a topic we love to pretend does not exist and live in denial. On 24th July, I woke up with Baba's message, "distressing... Continue Reading →
The International Museum Day is annually held on May 18th but the Jaya He GVK New Museum authorities planned to celebrate the entire week from May 15th to 19th as the International Museum Week at their beautiful space at the Mumbai International Airport popular as the T2 Terminal. There were workshops, musicial performances and on... Continue Reading →
Cambridge dictionary describes Access as the right or opportunity to use or look at something and Inclusion as the idea that everyone should be able to use the same facilities, take part in the same activities, and enjoy the same experiences, including people who have a disability or other disadvantage. To me, art, design, crafts, music, dance,... Continue Reading →
I was a Nehru Trust Fellow in the summer of 2015 to research, understand and evaluate the Access Features at the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. I also worked on a project for the Learning, Volunteers and Audiences Department (LVA) project of the British Museum. This project required me to evaluate the Eye... Continue Reading →
As part of a research and documentation field visit, the 4th semester students of Interior Design, ISDI Parsons, Mumbai, visited the Museum at the T2 Terminal of Mumbai International Airport with me and some faculty members of the Design School. This Museum is known as the Jaya He GVK New Museum, and most of us... Continue Reading →
I took the train Santiniketan Express from Howrah at 10.10 am to go to Santiniketan, my parents' present home. It is a place where my parents shifted to nearly 20 years back from their earlier home of nearly 25 years, Jaipur. They decided to spend the rest of their life at this idyllic hamlet called... Continue Reading →
Happy Birthday Trisha 🙂 Wishing you a wonderful day and year ahead. Now you might be wondering how are you linked to the Dung Beetle? It's not a messy and smelly but quite an eco - friendly beetle. And, you are linked to it through the little special story I'll tell you about it. You... Continue Reading →
Sananda Mukhopadhyay who runs the initiative Extension Arts asked me a week back if I would like to go to Ganjad village in Dahanu. Slightly surprised I asked her why a beach town and she replied to see the walls of a school. School, which school? What walls? Why? Then she mentioned there was a... Continue Reading →
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