I consider myself fortunate to have been provided the space in fashion education to explore myself as an educator. This, even though fashion education has always occupied a dubious space in the education ecosystem. We love the idea of creativity and if it’s associated with the promise of glamour even…

When people at a given place in a given time show more or less similar trends in the way they think, act and behave, we explain it as being the ‘fashion’ of the time. When someone dresses to be purposely noticeable in a sea of people, adopting styles that may…

Fashion is celebrated the world over as a form of creativity. However, its categorisation into ‘Art’ or ‘Design’ is problematic, considering it doesn’t neatly fit into either, falling short of the terms used to define both these concepts. This makes us question if fashion is not really art (in the…

Human society, culture and industry have always thrived on creativity. Creativity is our intrinsic and distinctive human ability to change and transform apparent reality through the power of abstract ideas. Our creativity allows us to make real the virtual. Fashion, at its heart, is about creative expression. Creative expression, it…

Design is planned, organized, systems and society-oriented creative work aimed at achieving technical finesse in products, innovation…

An idea is a suggestion; a possibility. Ideas have allowed us to escape irrelevance, stagnancy and oppression; and experience the fullness and diversity that is life. But ideas can also be stubborn, fixed and fixated on only one way as the right way…; or simply being fixated on the idea…

India became a republic 71 years ago. This means as a nation, we are 71 years young. But the history of India as a civilization and culture is around 5000 years old. Our culture is older than our national history and therefore, pervades it. Tolerance for different faiths is an…

The Truth alone existed before the names, forms and qualities of the world came into existence. Therefore, the Truth must be the cause of the world. But the Truth is changeless. It cannot become anything other than itself…But we see that the world exists, yet it is ever-changing, inert and…

Design, as a creative discipline is like no other. It has a history, but no rules. Its concept is amorphous and ever-changing. It stands on the shifting sands of time. In the past, design meant and was generally understood to be the appearance of a thing and how it looked…