Himanshu Desai

The Scope for Comparative Musicology

Unfinished/ Ongoing Research In 2022, I was invited to participate in a symposium on storytelling. I decided to envision what elements of classical music exist as structural elements in modern arts and culture, I started conducting interviews of random people as a part of the research. However due to unforeseen and extenuating circumstances I could […]

The Cosmic Dance of Fireflies

Ximena Labra, Mexico City, Mexico My interview with Ximena Labra did not go quite as I had planned. It quickly turned into more of a conversation. I feel that people like her are the hardest to interview. I say that because her strong personality is one that is full of humour and playfulness. In my […]

Boxes of Things

Ivan Smith, Belper, United Kingdom Fragment 1: The Repurposing of Developmental Dysfunction Do you hoard stuff? If yes, what do you hoard? Are they things you buy, or stuff you find strewn about? Are they found objects, or things that your future projects are made of? Artists commonly hoard stuff in their studios, even if […]

Indian Heritage Mission Manifesto

In focus: Mr. Debashish Nayak The Indian Heritage mission is a direct result of the life’s work of Mr. Debashish Nayak, who is an architect with more than two decades of experience in managing urban conservation issues of historic cities in India and abroad.

हिरण्य तत्त्व | Golden Element

हिरण्य तत्त्व | Golden Element. With textual excerpts from The Bhagawat Gita, The Vedas, The Upanishads, and Sunyatasaptati, Seventy Verses on Sunyata by Nagarjuna (pseudepigraph). Shot on location in Varanasi, India, 21- 24 June 2017.It is a collaboration between myself and my artist friends – delhi based artist Aarti Zaveri, art historian and Ajanta Scholar […]

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