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Varna- Expression on fabric

Date: 2025 July 12Time: 5:00 pm-7:00 pmPlace: CLD, Akarmaa, SecunderabadVarna is a series of workshops in the exploration of fabric painting. Travelling with them to learn and understand the nature and language of the art.Celebrate the cultural values of “Bonalu” by hand-painting on the fabric. Learn to outline and paint on the fabric through the […]

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Experiential Walk of the Stepwell at Bapughat

In commemoration of the World Heritage Day 2025 ‘Psychic Visualisation’ of the past ‘as-is’ by Kaushik Kumar across centuries of the stepwell, led the participants to imagine the narratives of kings, queens, children, sepoys, fakirs, travellers, camels and the river – weaving a unique experience of the space for oneself. The experiential walk commenced with

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Mending

“Can you guys restore this?,”  she asked, placing an idol of Ganesha made in stone in front of us. A sandstone Ganesha visited our workspace. Our client, deeply sensitive towards our collective attitude towards idols that break; “Do we discard ourselves when we lose our limbs?” we have so much technology to repair and fix

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20250117 Making with Children_Sri Aurobindo Montessori House of Children, Center for Learning by Doing (CLD)

Date: 2025 January 17,24Place: Sri Aurobindo Montessori House of Children, HyderabadWorkshop as a part of Book Launch and Exhibition: Talking to Chhaya, Ahmedabad With the magic of imagination, colours, fun, and stories, plain cloth cuttings were painted. Brushes, palms and fingers became tools. Playfully, otherwise, wasted cloth and wool transformed into beautiful unique bookmarks. The

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Architecture of Liminality

~ Neelkanth Chhaya Transcription of Prof.Chhays’s talk in SNS 16.0: Exploring Gandhi’s Places, hosted by Ethos Foundation The essay is about what I call the architecture of liminality. Now that’s a difficult word. So I’ll just go into it a little bit. Liminality is the state of in-between neither inside nor outside, neither belonging to

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Ne Neo Nakru

Could there have been someone who lived like her ? Everagain ? Probably not. A human of such resilience, radiating happiness, imbibing all beings for what they are with her divine smile. Amongst the multiple personality that she literally was, she was a prolific writer. ‘Diary of Little Woman’ was published in The Hindu and

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A process of conserving

Rajagopuram of Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swamy Temple, Ammapalli Dedicated to the hands which lay the invisible foundation stones of the Gopurams. “Ikkada shooting cheste, cinema super hit-aee..!!” A Telugu dialogue loosely translates to “If we film here, our cinema will definitely be a great success”.  A locally known, desolate place with minimal to no visitors; served

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Sree Nivasam

“Wow! Is this how I designed it?” said the photographer without blinking his widely open eyes. It was him who had conceptualised the long window during his architectural internship.A large-small home. ‘I wore a yellow dress to match the floor colour !” said the client, as she walked out of the bedroom; we found her

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