• June 2, 2020

When I first heard about the virus back in Jan-Feb, like most people, I assumed the world economy and manufacturing, already suffering because of the US-China spat, will probably take a hit because China will be inaccessible but I...

• June 2, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread in the world, countries found complete shutdown is one of the solutions to control its speed. By this solution it created a very big impact on small and big businesses. The handloom...

• June 1, 2020

ज़हन में उठती चिंगारियों को हवा देती एक आवाज़ सोने नहीं दे रही आज। यूं सपनो में जाने कौन सी खोंच पड़ गयी है। हर बार नींद वही उसी मुकाम पे उचट जाती है। इस खामोशी में पंखे की...

• June 1, 2020

UID Students at the WDO-IBM-DFA COVID-19 Design Challenge As the world was reeling under the near relentless onslaught of COVID-19; rapidly shutting itself indoors and locking down entire countries, The World Design Organization (WDO), IBM Design and Design for...

• 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...