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.
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 🙂
Jadughar Journey: Creating Universally Accessible and Inclusive Spaces in Ahmedabad
Have you visited a museum, heritage site and enjoyed your experience? Have you wanted to share your joy with those left behind? This links shares the 2nd adventure of 'Jadughar Journeys' bringing Ahmedabad's famous 'jalis' into our homes. One more attempt at access
Water! We will always need you but we treat you bad :(
One morning in March, 2024, India woke up to a headline that shocked us beyond belief * India's pride, Bengaluru, had no water!!! Born and brought up in Rajasthan and having spent most of my life there and in Gujarat, both desert states of India, water scarcity was something we were aware of being integral to our lives.
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Textile Book Review: The Shoemaker’s Stitch – Mochi Embroidery in TAPI Collection, India
This post is a review of the book 'The Shoemaker's Stitch: Mochi Embroideries of Gujarat in the TAPI Collection', published last year by Niyogi Books. It is as delicately narrated as the embroidery itself by Shilpa Shah and Rosemary Crill. Each page is like another stitch into the past of the embroidery and the lavish photos do justice to the exquisite embroidery. The festive season of India is upon us, and women are digging into their treasure chests for old textiles that are still wearable or can be upscaled.
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