• May 31, 2020

In 2006 Philips Design developed a series of dynamic garments as part of their ongoing SKIN exploration research into the area known as emotional sensing. The garment demonstrated how electronics can be incorporated into fabrics in order to show emotions and...

• May 31, 2020

My students asked me to write about ‘Spirituality and Design’. At first, I thought why have they chosen me? I am not Indian. I don’t have any of their spiritual practices or beliefs. But I took on this challenge...

• May 30, 2020

Since ages humanity held the masculine group above the feminine group, providing them with all the joy of war and dominance and the positive space of society, whereas the negative space remained with the feminine sector bearing the responsibility...

• May 30, 2020

Its 5am and I see the faint light of a pinkish dawn streaking across the sky. Under normal circumstances that is when most cities come alive, the newspaper vendors, milkmen, households that wake up to the clatter of pots...

• May 29, 2020

Excited, happy, crazy, mad – that was me on being gifted my first scooter by my parents on my 15th birthday. It was more a necessity than a reward for doing well in my exams. My family had moved...

• May 29, 2020

As the global economy comes to terms with the corona virus outbreak, ‘social distancing’ has become a buzzword of these crazy times. Everywhere whether in the media, neighbors, friends, strangers everyone is quick to prescribe social distancing – deliberately...

• May 29, 2020

To the best of my memory and knowledge about the Salt March (also known as Dandi March, Salt Satyagraha) is limited only to what I had from my formative school days that Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) led the...

• May 28, 2020

Photographer – Salik Ahmad – Captioned: 90-year-old Kajodi trudges home 400 km away amid coronavirus lockdown. Published in – https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-90-year-old-kajodi-trudges-home-400-km-away-amid-coronavirus-lockdown/349525 Many years ago, the Wanted Series initiated the dialogue on ethics in photography. A seminar was organised at Max...

• May 28, 2020

The humanities and social sciences constitute one of the earliest domains of knowledge. While disciplinary formations are a much modern phenomenon, the concerns which form the disciplinary bodies of the humanities and social sciences, such as history, political science,...