Well, here were are, at the end of a year or somewhere in an era of a pandemic. Time seemed to stand still as we tried to protect ourselves and our loved ones in what was perhaps one of the most difficult years some of us has seen in our lifetime. And amidst all the struggles, I think it is important to look back at our lives this year and cherish the things that made us happy and pushed us to go on even on the gloomiest of days.

As I prepare to wrap up 2020, I look back…

Every October, artists all over the world take on the Inktober drawing challenge by doing one ink drawing a day the entire month.

Stuck at home, amidst a pandemic, I did find myself some time in between projects and decided to give Inktober2020 a shot.

I think the last time I did this was in 2017.

Even though one is expected to make ink drawings by hand, it is more about challenging yourself to create something based on a prompt and do it every day for the entire month. I decided to make patterns — and my primary tool of…

“Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one that has rendered us the most important service in civic life…”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The origins of cooking began with primitive humans roughly two million years ago. There are various theories as to how early humans used fire to cook meat. According to anthropologist Richard Wrangham, author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, primitive humans simply tossed a raw hunk of meat into the flames and watched it sizzle. …

The concept of ‘time travel’ has always been an intriguing one for anyone, indeed. What if we could travel back or forth in time and space? How would we attempt to understand and define the context in that time and space? Whom would we propose, conceive, design and make the ‘artefacts’ for?

The conventional understanding of the term dramaturgy is coming from the practice and theory of dramatic composition of a performance language which is often textually written by a dramaturge for a devised performance process. The term scenography has been used to articulate the overall visual language of a performative event that includes all the aspects of visual inputs. Historically theatre has always been considered as a hybrid art form as an amalgamation of many art disciplines. But in conventional dramatic theatre, visual design has not been given the equal prominence as other components, for example written text although the experience…

Remember the last time when you had to place a screenshot of a map in your presentation or brochure or embed one in your website and you simply couldn’t get it to match your visual styles (read colours and fonts)?

Let me guess, it looked something like this —

Well, it is not a child’s play to edit this map… it has got so many elements — the land, water, roads, buildings and so on.

Except for that it is now, with Cartogram, the awesome new tool from Mapbox.

This article is not about design or code. It is about understanding the loop that runs the world of software products — which depends on a harmonious implementation of both. Read on to find out why is it important to understand it at all!

Facebook knows what’s on your mind. Twitter wants to know what’s happening. Probably, Google has already made you feel lucky by telling you that your flight is delayed by an hour — letting you tuck under your warm blanket for an extra hour or spend some extra time in your shower☺.

Information — the currency of the modern age.

Well, there have been more of such “apps”, I am sure, that have had their seeds sown, but were not lucky enough to see the sunshine, probably because of some bug infestation. Wow! how literal that was. What do you think…

Every great thing begins with a dream. Be it a technological breakthrough or nation-building, it has always been a cumulative effort of visionaries who could see forth into the future and dream about it. A very good example of this is the account of how Rome was built by two brothers — though not in a day — but, that too was a vision someone had strived towards realising. However, a nation is not built in a day. …