Audiogyan
316 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAudiogyan is a collection of wide-ranging conversations with designers, artists, musicians, writers, thinkers, and luminaries of the Indian creative world. Started in 2016 by Kedar Nimkar, the podcast hopes to expand the definition of design, document, archive, and inspire fellow generation artists.
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Ep. 298 - Responsibilities of a Designer with Daniel Burka & Shreyas Satish
June 11, 2024 20:30 - 1 hour - 144 MBThis is the last episode of the #designersdigest series where we have Daniel Burka and co-host Shreyas Satish. We talk about blurring lines between product and design, the importance of being a generalist in design, and the role of product managers in the design process. This series is created by Audiogyan in partnership with @godrejdesignlab Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, its daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll nee...
Ep. 297 - Design in India with Chandrashekhar Wyawahare
June 04, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 190 MBTune into this 9th episode of a 10-part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Chandrashekhar Wyawahare. We talk all about Industrial Design, Make in India, and the skills required to become an Industrial Designer. This series is in partnership with @godrejdesignlab. Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, its daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating design world. When you look at Braun or any industria...
Ep. 296 - Automobile design as a career with Akanksha Sethi
May 29, 2024 06:09 - 55 minutes - 127 MBTune into this 8th episode of a 10-part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Akanksha Sethi. This series is in partnership with @godrejdesignlab. Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, its daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating design world. Starting with a few numbers collected from SIAM, (Society of Indian Automobile Manufactures) and the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations (FADA) Over...
Ep. 295 - Woman Graphic Designers with Ruchita Madhok
May 21, 2024 21:12 - 1 hour - 162 MBTune into this 7th episode of a 10-part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Ruchita Madhok. Audiogyan creates this series in partnership with @godrejdesignlab Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, its daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating design world. Ruchita has been a guest on episode 159, named “Designing a Visual Guide”. The poetry of everyday life inspires her. Through the mediums of cyano...
Ep. 294 - Role of the Creator in Games with Dhruv Jani
May 15, 2024 01:20 - 1 hour - 184 MBTune into this 6th episode of a 10-part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Dhruv Jani. This series is created by Audiogyan in partnership with @godrejdesignlab Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, its daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. Dhruv Jani joins us on Audiogyan as we talk about the role of the creator in the world of Game Design. Dhruv Jani is an artist at, and the ...
Ep. 293 - Pushing the boundaries of design with Saif Faisal
May 07, 2024 16:13 - 52 minutes - 120 MBTune into this 5th episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Saif Faisal, A new breed of bold Contemporary designer and founder of SFDW This series is created by Audiogyan in partnership with @godrejdesignlab Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. Massimo Vignelli’s once said, “If you can design one thing, you can design ...
Ep. 292 - Maximise to minimise with Chitra Vishwanath
May 01, 2024 02:59 - 56 minutes - 129 MBTune into this 4th episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with @chitrav89 (Chitra Vishwanath) - Principal Architect and Managing Director of BIOME Environment Solutions (@biomearchitecture) This series is created by Audiogyan in partnership with @godrejdesignlab Designer's Digest series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder, and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. Chitra Vishwanath is...
Ep. 291 - Designing beyond Earth with Susmita Mohanty
April 24, 2024 02:31 - 1 hour - 137 MBThis is the 3rd episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Dr. Susmita Mohanty, an Indian spaceship designer and a serial space entrepreneur. This series is created in partnership with Godrej Design Lab - a platform that encourages and advances design excellence and exploration. Godrej Design Lab believes in the power of design to make a meaningful change. I am so happy and proud that Godrej Design Lab is supporting the journey of Audiogyan. Designer's Digest is a series about D...
Ep. 290 - Design leadership in startups with Hardik Pandya
April 16, 2024 23:52 - 1 hour - 274 MBThis is the second episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Hardik Pandya, Sr. VP of Design at Unacademy Group. This series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. I have a co-host with me, Shreyas Satish. He is the founder of ownpath.com, ownpath is a platform for designers to upskill, find community, and unlock exciting opportunities, and also hel...
Ep. 289 - Measure of good designers with Ayaz Basrai
April 10, 2024 01:42 - 1 hour - 182 MBThis is the first episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest”. This series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. We start with Ayaz Basrai. Ayaz has been on Audiogyan’s 104th Episode where we spoke about “Designing interiors for your city.” He is the founder of The Busride Studio based in Goa and Mumbai along with his brother Zameer. Ayaz Graduated in In...
Ep. 288 - What is Plork? with Nitesh and Sonal (7th Anniversary)
December 27, 2023 03:02 - 1 hour - 231 MBEinstein once said “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” He also said, “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” Why I am talking about this? In today’s episode, we’ll documenting all about Play and Work. For this, we have Nitesh Mohanty and Sonal Choudhary with us on Audiogyan. Nitesh is a Educator, Photographer, Art Director, Writer, Curator. A JJ and Bombay bo...
Ep. 287 - Discussing typeface with Sarang Kulkarni (Marathi)
December 13, 2023 16:16 - 42 minutes - 78.4 MB“The characteristics of jazz help. Its sense of improvisation, individualism, sound, and rhythm are all present and important in graphic design, too.” - Niklaus Troxler, who have been improvising with letterforms like Jazz Musicians since 1960s. In my opinion, a Poster is a mix of typeface and graphics communicating something. In here, typeface matters a lot. To discuss this and more, today we have Sarang Kulkarni with us. Sarang is a type designer and co-founder of Ektype. He also has his...
Ep. 286 - Design for scale with Abhinit Tiwari
November 01, 2023 04:12 - 56 minutes - 130 MBAbhinit has been building digital products for past 15 years, he was head of Design at Gojek and scaled the design and research function from 6 designer to 200 plus including research. He is currently on a sabbatical. Questions You wear multiple hats - designer, programmer and Product. Your twitter bio says, App Maker. Pixel Hinter. Leak Checker. Who do you associate the most with? What does scale mean in the world of tech? What does “designing for scale” enable us to do? Why design for...
Ep. 285 - Censorship in films with Ajit Rai (Hindi)
October 25, 2023 01:17 - 54 minutes - 125 MBPotter Stewart an associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court once said, “Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.” Censoring artists, intellectuals is not a new thing. Today to discuss more about censorship we have Ajit Rai with us on Audiogyan. We’ll be talking about banning and censorship in films in the Indian context. This episode will be bi-lingual but mostly in Hindi. Listeners have to bare with my Hindi questions but Ajit sir will cover my shortcomings. 🙂 He wr...
Ep. 284 - Where is the place? with Ar. Sherman Stave
October 18, 2023 02:13 - 47 minutes - 110 MBIn late 1800s, A Spanish architect, Antonio Gaudi, said, “There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners”. But where does the nature stop and where does the building begin? Lets explore more about architecture and history in this 3 part series called, “An insert into the history”. This series is brought to you by, The Drawing Board, with whom I had partnered last year. The Drawing Board is an international architectu...
Ep. 283 - An insert into the history with Prof. Durganand Balsavar (TDB Series)
October 11, 2023 04:35 - 1 hour - 177 MBFrank Owen Gehry, a Canadian-born American architect and designer once said, “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness”. How can we long for timelessness in architecture if the place itself keeps changing? Lets explore more about architecture and history in this 3 part series called, “An insert into the history”. This series is brought to you by, The Drawing Board, with whom I had partnered last year. The Drawing Board is an international architecture plat...
Ep. 282 - Designing a museum with Ar. Prashant Pole (TDB Series)
October 04, 2023 02:58 - 1 hour - 166 MBBV. Doshi, once said, “A house is a grain, like a small sapling in the bio-diverse wild forest”. I wonder what a public space like a temple, a monument, museum, a park, an industrial zone, a 80 floor office tower or a man made landscape is? Lets explore more about architecture and history in this 3 part series called, “An insert into the history”. This series is brought to you by, The Drawing Board, with whom I had partnered last year. The Drawing Board is an international architecture plat...
Ep. 281 - Improvisation in dance with Avantika Bahl
September 20, 2023 03:45 - 51 minutes - 117 MBFriedrich Nietzsche’s famous line - “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about improvisation in dance with Avantika Bahl. Avantika is a dance practitioner and educator based in Mumbai. As an artist, she works towards creating inclusive performances that can be accessed by a larger community. Over the past few years, her choreographic choices have brought diverse voices and experiences to the m...
Ep. 280 - Improvisation in Performing Arts with Trina Banerjee
September 13, 2023 04:36 - 1 hour - 145 MBSatyajit Ray once said, “There is always room for improvisation”. I think this needs a lot more investigation. Referring to Ray’s comment on the room of improvisation, today we have the honour to have Dr Trina Banerjee with us on Audiogyan. We’ll talk about improvisation in the context of Theatre, Plays, Playwriting, and performing arts at large. Trina is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her research interests include Gender...
Ep. 279 - Improvisations in music with Pushkar Lele & Kuldeep Barve
September 06, 2023 01:39 - 1 hour - 180 MBI quote John McLaughlin “I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.” Pushkar Lele and Kuldeep Barve joins us on Audiogyan and we will be talking about “Improvisation in music”. It’s going to be a bi-lingual conversation in English and Marathi. Pushkar is a renowned Hindustani classical vocali...
Ep. 278 - Rethinking waste as a resource with Rahul Nainani
August 16, 2023 03:19 - 1 hour - 143 MB“Waste not, want not.” can be explained as “if you are not wasteful with the resources you have now, then at a later date you will have those resources to use as you want and need. By not wasting, you will not be needy later.” And today to discuss all about waste ecosystem and the sector at large, we have Rahul Nainani with us on Audiogyan. Rahul has a passion for sustainable policies that create value. With one eye on the bottom line and the other on tangible social impact, Rahul, along wi...
Ep. 277 - Need for performing spaces with Atul Kumar
August 09, 2023 03:12 - 33 minutes - 77.6 MBPeter Brook the legendary English theatre and film director once said, ********“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.” Lets talk about the need for such a space with Atul Kumar. Atul Kumar is The Company Theatre’s founder member. An acclaimed actor and director with more than 30 years of performance experience, Atul has dabbled with dif...
Ep. 276 - “The Promise” documentary making with Jan Schmidt Garre (Part 2)
August 02, 2023 12:30 - 32 minutes - 74.8 MBWelcome back to Part 2. We were in conversation with Jan Schmidt Garre, film maker, producer and founder of PARS MEDIA. They make high-quality documentaries and feature films with a focus on classical music, dance, and the fine arts. In the previous episode, we spoke about “Making a documentary” and in this, we speak about his latest Documentary on Late Ar. B.V.Doshi called the “The Promise – Architect BV Doshi”. Questions You have made 2 documentaries in the East. What fascinates you ...
Ep. 275 - Documentary making with Jan Schmidt Garre (Part 1)
July 26, 2023 12:30 - 43 minutes - 98.8 MB“In feature films, the director is God; in documentary films, God is the director.” Alfred Hitchcock. Welcome to this 2 part series with Jan Schmidt Garre. First part is about “Making a documentary” and second part is his latest Documentary on Late Ar. B.V.Doshi called the “The Promise – Architect BV Doshi”. Jan Schmidt-Garre founded PARS MEDIA in 1988. It’s a production company for high-quality documentaries and feature films with a focus on classical music, dance, and the fine arts. His ...
Ep. 274 - Designing Trucks with Sathiya Seelan Gangaasalam
July 19, 2023 02:08 - 52 minutes - 120 MBMaa kaa aashirwaad, OK TATA Bye Bye, Hum Do Hamare Do, Mera Bharat Mahan - Sounds familiar? I am talking about the slogans written behind the truck. But we are not going to discuss those, rather the heavy vehicles on which these are written. Yes. Trucks. In 1911, truck designer Charles Martin built a gasoline-powered tractor to pull modified horse-drawn commercial wagons. His most significant innovation, however, was the fifth-wheel coupler. A round plate with a central hole, it attached to...
Ep. 273 - Snake-a-doo with Peeyush & Khyati
July 12, 2023 01:03 - 1 hour - 161 MB16th July is World snake day - 4 days from today when this episode is released and on this occasion, we are doing a case study of Snake-a-doo, a board game about Snakes and Snake-bites. More than a million people have died due to snakebites in India in the past 20 years. “Snake-a-doo” is an original take on the conventional snakes and ladders game, only this time without any ladders (it only has snakes). It is geared towards education on 9 snake species commonly found in India including the ...
Ep. 272 - Generative Art with Ujjwal Agarwal
July 05, 2023 02:50 - 42 minutes - 98.4 MBAs Scott Adams, an American author and cartoonist says, “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” In our today’s episode, we’ll try and understand who is making mistakes and who keeps the art. I am personally super interested in knowing how things unfold in this episode with Ujjwal Agarwal also known as Kala. Ujjwal is a generative artist whose works explore the intersection of art and technology through the use of algorithms and code. His art is...
Audiogyan trailer
June 02, 2023 09:47 - 52 seconds - 1.59 MBWelcome to Audiogyan and I'm your host Kedar Nimkar. Audiogyan brings you conversations with the most influential figures in the Indian creative world - Artists, filmmakers, musicians, architects, writers, curators and designers. I had the honor of hosting remarkable guests like the late Ar. B.V Doshi, Sujata Keshavan, Varun Grover, Taufiwu Quereshi and many more… We deep dive into their philosophies to understand their worldview. I hope these enriching conversation fuel us with inspiration...
Ep. 271 - Whats looping? with Vasuda Sharma
May 31, 2023 03:29 - 58 minutes - 134 MBDavid M. Torn, an American guitarist, composer, and producer once said, “The original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.” Well to unpack this and know more about looping, we have Vasuda Sharma with us on Audiogyan. Vasuda is a Singer, Songwriter, Producer, and Performer. In fact, being a performer, I have seen her live, playing multiple instruments and live looping at Blue Frog a long time ago. She is trained in Indian classical music. After composing many...
Ep. 270 - Designing spaces with Kamini Rao
May 23, 2023 18:01 - 44 minutes - 102 MBKamini Rao has built giant cakes, designed cozy mountain homes and boozy retro diners, created fake airplanes, and architected a house for a doll. Although her work is deeply rooted in architecture and interior design, we will be talking about space, exhibition, and set design. She is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on collective experiences using art and architecture. She founded Studio Slip in 2018 with the aim to bring an experimental approach to interior design. At SLIP, she he...
Ep. 269 - What are aesthetics? with Saugata Bhaduri
April 12, 2023 02:08 - 1 hour - 164 MBI am not sure where do I start today’s episode since it’s about aesthetics. This concept can be seen in mathematics, arts, poetry, literature, music, sculpture, photography, cooking. In fact anything that you see, smell, taste, touch or hear. So lets leave it to our today’s guest, Saugata Bhaduri. He is an Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi, India. A scholar in the field of aesthetics, which is the philosophical study of beauty and taste. As a professor at JNU, Saugata i...
Ep. 268 - Design of Peace with Rajni Bakshi
April 05, 2023 09:23 - 1 hour - 215 MBRajni Bakshi joins us on Audiogyan. She is an Indian author, researcher, and activist. Her work primarily focuses on issues related to non-violence, economics, ecology, and peace. Rajni is the founder and curator of Ahimsa Conversations, an online platform for exploring the possibilities of nonviolence. More about her in the show notes. I have been to Vipassana a couple of times and found that peace is an outcome of a war. This made me curious to have a conversation with Rajni on understandi...
Ep. 267 - Rock Paper Scissors with Sagarika Suri (Case Study)
March 08, 2023 03:07 - 57 minutes - 105 MBIn episode 220 with Hrush Bhatt, he said, a sculptor knows his / her medium, marble, mud, or stone, and an architect knows what kind of material he/she wants, similarly, a digital product designer should know how to code, design and write copy. Today we have a guest who is a perfect blend of understanding materials and implementing them in her practice. Sagarika Suri - a practicing architect and urban designer in Mumbai. She practices small and large-scale projects through Studio Tessera bas...
Ep. 266 - Parampara and Paddhati with Dr. Keshavchaitanya Kunte
February 22, 2023 02:22 - 1 hour - 173 MBToday we have Dr. Keshavchaitanya Kunte with us on Audiogyan. He is a Harmonium player, composer, and musicologist. Keshavchaitanya Sir received extensive training in Hindustani Art music, for Harmonium under the able guidance of Dr. Arawind Thatte. For vocal music from Pt. Mohanrao Karve and Dr. Ashok Da. Ranade for musicology. We’ll try to document Keshavchaitanya Sir’s thoughts on parampara (tradition) and paddhati (methodology) in the context of Hindustani Music. Just as a disclaimer, t...
Ep. 265 - Artist, art and more with Mohammad Muneem Nazir (Alif)
February 14, 2023 18:39 - 1 hour - 119 MBIf you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth: Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. -Kabir. Today we have such a person with us on Audiogyan who has not only heard his inner voice but also share himself as a work of art. He happens to be born n raised in Kashmir. Would his work of art be any different if he was born raised anywhere else in the world ? I am pleased to have Mohammad Muneem Nazir with us on Audiogyan. He is a poet, singer-songwriter. His artis...
Ep. 264 - Mud as a material with Vinu Daniel
February 01, 2023 02:41 - 42 minutes - 98.2 MBVinu Daniel joins us on Audiogyan. He is an Architect and did his B. Arch in 2005 from The College of Engineering, Trivandrum. After that, he worked with Auroville Earth Institute for the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) Post-Tsunami construction. On returning from Pondicherry in 2007 he started 'Wallmakers', an architectural practice that deals with sustainable and cost-effective architecture. Mud bricks, recycled materials, eco-friendly methods of construction, and apt utilizati...
Ep. 263- Being interdisciplinary with Ruchika Nambiar
January 25, 2023 04:20 - 1 hour - 178 MBSwami Vivekananda once said that “Get extensity with intensity, but not at its expense.” I guess our today’s guest has been trying to achieve both very elegantly in her practice, breadth, and depth at the same time. Happy to have Ruchika Nambiar with us on Audiogyan. Ruchika is an artist, designer, and writer. Her work ranges across media, from publishing books, graphic memoirs, interactive social media stories, design consulting practice for brands and businesses as well as a mentorship pro...
Ep. 262 - Production design with Meenal Agarwal
January 18, 2023 02:36 - 1 hour - 138 MBAnton Chekov’s famous lines in his book are… “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” Well, I guess our today’s guest has an innate and instinctive quality to decide what’s in the frame and what's not. Be her earlier stint as a photojournalist or her avatar as a production designer for numerous films since 2006. I am pleased to have Meena...
Ep. 261 - What can design do with Pepijn Zurburg
January 10, 2023 16:36 - 1 hour - 138 MBAudiogyan is proud to partner with UnBox Cultural Futures Society and What Design Can do. What Design Can Do, is an international organization that seeks to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair, and just society using the power of design. WhatDesignCanDo is launching the “Make it Circular Challenge” - a global design competition building a circular future in partnership with IKEA. This Challenge invites designers and creative entrepreneurs everywhere to submit design-driven clim...
Ep. 260 - What can design do in India with Ayush Chauhan
January 03, 2023 17:02 - 58 minutes - 134 MBAudiogyan is proud to partner with UnBox Cultural Futures Society and What Design Can do. What Design Can Do, is an international organization that seeks to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, fair, and just society using the power of design. WhatDesignCanDo is launching the “Make it Circular Challenge” - a global design competition building a circular future in partnership with IKEA. This Challenge invites designers and creative entrepreneurs everywhere to submit design-driven clim...
EP:259 - Rhythm by Taufiq Qureshi (6th Anniversary Episode)
December 28, 2022 00:35 - 52 minutes - 120 MBToday Audiogyan turns 6. Yes, It’s been amazing 6 years of documenting designers, poets, musicians, writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and more… We have reached the 259th episode. Well and to celebrate this special anniversary episode, we have Taufiq Qureshi with us, who can unarguably be called the King of rhythms. One of the most sought-after percussionists and the greatest thinkers in the world of music and world music. Apart from introducing us to Djembe and many other instruments, Taufiq si...
How mini can miniature art be with Srijan Jha
December 21, 2022 08:44 - 58 minutes - 133 MB“One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.” ~ Albert Pike. Even in Indian spirituality, these words are commonly used and understood that the macrocosm is the reflection of our body which is the microcosm. Today we have a guest who deals with really intricate artwork which need a lot of focus, attention and precision. We are talking about miniature art. Srijan Jha joins us on Audiogyan. Srijan is a miniature artist, traveller, writers, storyteller and also engag...
Who is the pot? with Sangeeta Jawla
November 29, 2022 23:56 - 57 minutes - 131 MBIn episode # 244, Sumana Chandrashekar spoke about History of Ghatam. Immediately after the episode was released, Sangeeta Jawla connected and suggested that we could have done a pre-cursor to the Ghatam episode and document the “pot”. Well, better late then never. Today we have Sangeeta with us on Audiogyan to talk about the clay as a material and it’s history through stories and folklores. Sangeeta is a research scholar, a practicing potter and a storyteller. She engraves the potters’ fol...
Conflictorium with Avni Sethi
November 09, 2022 03:20 - 49 minutes - 113 MBToday’s guest has been dealing with conflicts for some time now. Pleasure to have Avni Sethi with us on Audiogyan. Avni is a interdisciplinary practitioner with her primary concern lying between culture, memory, space and the body. She conceptualized and designed the Conflictorium about which we’ll be diving deep as a case study. Her interests lies in exploring the relationship between intimate audiences and the performing body. Questions What does conflict mean to you? Where do conflicts ...
Re-designing cities with V. Ravichandar
November 02, 2022 01:33 - 2 days - 130 MBV. Ravichandar joins us on Audiogyan. Ravi is an Honorary Director at the Bangalore International Centre. He is also the Honorary Consul for Republic of Slovenia in Bengaluru. His entrepreneurial stint was around strategy and marketing consulting through his firm Feedback Consulting. He has worked voluntarily with State and Local governments as well as civil society to improve cities. This was through the Bangalore Agenda Task Force, JN-NURM, and the City Connect platforms. Apart from BIC, ...
Research in music with Srijan Deshpande
October 25, 2022 19:11 - 1 hour - 85 MBKumar Gandharva once said…कला सारखी बदलत असणार, जी जन्माला आली की मृत्यु आहे त्याला, अशाला तुम्ही सारखे बांधून ठेवता, म्हैस बांधल्यासारखे? संगीतासारखी कला सारखी बदलत असते, म्हणजे त्याचं शास्त्र बदलत नाही, त्याचं सौंदर्य बदलतं. Today we have Srijan Deshpande with us on Audiogyan. He is a dedicated student, performer, researcher, teacher, and archivist of Hindustani Raga Sangeet. Srijan is currently pursuing a doctoral research project at the Manipal Centre for Humanities, in which he is atte...
Green Humour with Rohan Chakravarty
October 19, 2022 02:00 - 44 minutes - 42.9 MBI am quoting our today’s guest’s from one of his article… “I have this presentation that starts with me asking my viewers to identify three sets of entities that are put forth visually: The first set of people is Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas, the second set is Narendra Modi and Donald Trump and the third is a species of Dragonfly which is very common in India called Ground Skimmer. And most people, unless you are scientists, can identify the first two sets of entities but not the third on...
Designing Green events with Indraja Khare and Aishwarya Lonial
October 12, 2022 01:58 - 51 minutes - 49 MBThere are some 16 events / rituals which are performed in a life of an individual. From birth to death. If we calculate with 140Cr people, I am sure, it’s of a number. Well, worry not, we have Nose to Tail - Designing celebrations which are beautiful inside and out. Founded by Indraja Khare and Aishwarya Lonial. They design Green events and a strong believer and proponent of up-cycling and sustainability. What started as a College project at MIT has now become a successful venture going str...
Generalists vs Specialists with Itu & Lisa
September 28, 2022 02:05 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBWe have Itu Chaudhuri and Lisa Rath with us on Audiogyan. They don’t need any formal introduction to the world of design. Just for our record, Itu and Lisa a Principals at Itu Chaudhuri Design, a full-stack design agency bringing powerful design and original thinking to business problems and opportunities. They have engaged in branding, packaging, communication, and editorial design for clients all around. To name a few, Indian Express, Outlook Traveller, Nestle, Haldiram, Dr. Reddy, and mor...
Language of Kabir with Mandar Karanjkar (Marathi)
September 21, 2022 04:14 - 52 minutes - 50.4 MBOne of the sakhi of Kabir goes like this "Boli hamari purab ki, hami likhai nahi koyi. hama ko to so lakhai, dhura purab hoy." "My language is of the east, none understands me, he only understands me who is from the farthest east." We’ll try and document Kabir’s language or should we say languages. Today we have Mandar Karanjkar, once again on Audiogyan. I had him in Episode, 238 with Dakshayani Athalye where we spoke about their Baithak Foundation where he is a co-founder. Mandar is a ...