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 🙂
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.
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
Astad Deboo: Dance of Textiles Panel Discussion
This post wraps up the panel discussion held on Sep 3, at the NGMA, Mumbai, as a tribute to Padma Shri Astad Deboo. He experimented, broke boundaries and created new paradigms that has an everlasting impact… he belonged to not one city, school, genre or creative form but seamlessly moved in all. Video link to the entire discussion is in the post.
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.
Award of Honorary D. Litt. degree to Dr Asok Kumar Das
The Courtauld Institute of Art, an independent college of the University of London has announced the conferment of an Honorary Doctorate degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) to the distinguished art historian Dr Asok K. Das.
‘Jadughar Experts’ panel of ‘The Museum Memories Project’
For our 3rd year, we are honoured to announce our panel of 'Jadughar Experts' who will advise us with their valuable wisdom. Museums in most parts of India were called a ‘Jadughar’ or ‘Ajaibghar’ meaning a physical space of magic, our project attempts to transform the Museum into an accessible and inclusive digital, intellectual, emotional,... Continue Reading →
