What if we shifted toward giving experiences, time, and things made by hand? Gifts that cost our own energy, not the planet’s? We are coming to the end of the second hottest year on record, having just passed the consumerist ritual of Black Friday, and are now deep into a December littered with
What if landscapes were alive? Born, shaped, and aged through deep time—mountains rising like adolescents, rivers maturing into elders, glaciers carrying millennia in their ice. @priyanka.parihar16 reflects on a living Himalayan body: from the fierce youth of the Ganga to the quiet death of
Shapeshifter You can be lava or a tiny pebble Like, I can be turbulent or somewhat stable. Sometimes a tornado, sometimes a light breeze I too can go fast or move with ease. A feeble flame quietly eating at the wood or a gluttonous wildfire. I too can be restrained or a […]
In the heart of Mumbai’s congested streets, architect Tejas Sidnal asked a radical question: Can we design beauty out of pollution? Could it be possible to turn carbon-rich waste like tyres into a sustainable building material instead of an environmental hazard? I was nine years old when I first m
In the northern plains of India, fields and farms have united families for generations. However, changing climate conditions, along with social and economic challenges, have uprooted these communities from the soil and pushed them into cities where ways of living grow increasingly distant from what