This morning I was wandering around the site and stopped by the boulder under the ficus tree. I noticed what looked like unusual tiny...

Ive been an avid reader since childhood and have always loved books. For me books have not simply been about their form (earlier paper...

Hexagonal patterned columns, Giants Causeway In the spring of 2014, I had the opportunity to travel to the Giants Causeway, a natural...

As part of the sale agreement, our developer had put down a design guideline requiring that about seventy percent of the home be covered...

Every time I drive past Nandi Hills, I'm overwhelmed by the scale, solidity and seeming timelessness of these boulder strewn hills. Age...

This is the time of the year that Nandi Hills changes from its grey rocky colour to lush green with the monsoon rains. Last week we had...

Saluting the national flag Jawai is one of my favourite destinations to photograph leopards in the wild. After an exciting week there, I...

I have a question for you - What non essential item do you store in the trunk of your car ? I keep a few kites and string in my car -...

We had heavy rains at the site last night - the foundations work is still underway - the soaked soil at the edge of several excavated...

I usually check out the close circuit cameras at site a few times a day. Since I cant visit Nandi Hills everyday, this gives me a visual...

One of my aspirations for the design of our home, is to blend traditional motifs and themes from Karnataka, while still building a...

Having finalised our construction contractor, I was keen to get the project started. While the first wave of the pandemic was behind us,...

Dragonfly on garden trail When designing or laying the stones for garden pathways, I've commonly seen linear or geometric patterns. I'm...

Despite living in Bangalore for nearly 20 years, I learned about the unique South Indian tradition of memorial stones (colloquially...

Check with any experienced photographer, they will most likely have a folder of reference images - each frame has something that caught...

In 1961, incidentally, the year of my birth; Louis Kahn built the structures for the Indian Classroom, IIM Ahmedabad Institute of...

Aren't you wondering what this post is about ? I first came across these terms in a book by Vanessa Gardner Nagel - she uses them to...

The Lion King, arguably the most well known animated film in the world, centres around a pride of lions ruling over the animal kingdom...

Some brands become synonymous with a product category - like Google for search or Xerox for photocopying... The parallel in the...

That Wanaka Tree Have you heard about the Wanaka Tree ? It is a solitary crooked willow tree at the south end of Lake Wanaka in New...