Sketchnotes: TEDxGateway 2014
A continuing source of inspiration, TEDxGateway is an invaluable forum that highlights important issues and relevant solutions to the problems facing the world today. Held on November 2nd, 2014 at the NCPA in Mumbai, the theme for the day was #BetterIndia. Here’s a roundup of some of the ideas to take home from this edition....
Sketchnotes: TEDxGateway 2012
December 2nd saw the third edition of TEDxGateway hosted in Mumbai. An independently organised version of the now famous TED talks, the day brought together 21 speakers from 17 different countries for the largest event of its kind in the city. While the TEDxGateway met its organisers’ objective of sharing “unique ideas from India and...
Pink Is The Navy Blue of India
These days one doesn’t think twice when looking at a magazine spread of a fashionable femme fatale striking a pose in an exotic locale, or a candid shot of a model in the streets, but the genre of fashion photography owes a great deal to one of its original pioneers in the form of...
Building Books
In a virtual galaxy of book publishers hawking their wares in bookstores these days, Tara Books editions illuminate India’s rich and vibrant visual culture. An impressive catalogue that straddles fantasy, fiction, poetry, folklore, visual arts and design, each publication is created through the effort of academics, anthropologists, writers, artists and designers working together. Founded by...
The Ant and The Grasshoper
A Parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper by Arjun Jassal ‘I don’t do HTML. If you want, I can give you a few images.’ ‘Sorry. I can draw the images. Content isn’t my thing.’ ‘CS5? Naah. I never liked it, I can only give you stuff from CS3.’ And it goes on. The...
Doshi: Architecture without Adjectives
At one point in the documentary Doshi, Balkrishna Doshi explains his influences saying, “ it’s like I’m eating the food by the best chefs, but I am digesting it. How you digest your food and make it part of your blood and body is up to you.” As one of the few Indian architects known...
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