There are moments in a city - perhaps you’ve experienced them too - when walking past an old building momentarily unsettles your sense of time. It feels almost like a brief dissociation from the present, where multiple temporalities begin to layer over one another, and you can’t quite tell where one ends and another begins. This sensation of temporal overlap forms the core of my essay. I trace the afterlives of two ice factories: one in Bombay, built in the 1800s during colon

In this piece publishes in the Times of India, Pune Edition, I explore our complex relationship with India’s rivers - how we worship them publicly yet neglect them quietly. Through personal memories and urban observations, I trace the gap between our performative reverence and the ecological reality beneath. This article is written through a lens of remembrance, urging us to look beyond rituals and reclaim our rivers as living systems that sustain us. Full text: The Mula–Muth

Reading Murakami often feels like stepping into a half-forgotten dream, where the boundaries of real and imagined dissolve without warning. In The City and Its Uncertain Walls, he leads us across such thresholds with quiet certainty—drawing us into spaces so vivid you can almost run your fingers along their texture, feel their pulse at a cellular level. One moment you are here, in the tangible world, and the next you are elsewhere, wandering through a city you never knew exis

At the heart of a Pune home crafted by Alkove-Design lies a materiality that evokes the spirit of the earth—a canvas brought to life with a soulful collection of gradients. Designed for Prakriti and Anirudh Chaturvedi, this 4-BHK apartment, spread across 4900 sq.ft, unfolds as a home that is layered, grounded, and deeply personal.

Absolutely thrilled to have recently conducted a Communication Skills Workshop for the dynamic team at Alkove-Design ! This specially...

Alkove-Design’s expanded studio space in Pune, reminiscent of a dwelling, combines old-world charm with contemporary elegance to create a...

This Contemporary Pune home designed by Alkove-Design, weaves a kaleidoscope of identities- Indian and global, through adaptive processes...

This Pune home designed by Alkove-Design, grows out of memories, fusing the old with the new with nostalgia as the binder. Text by Rama...

A Tropical- Modernist Pune home designed by Alkove-Design transforms into an urban sanctuary, offering respite with its fluid blend of...

Patterned Vignettes: Alkove-Design crafts a vocabulary of compelling patterns for an understated-luxury Pune home. Text by Rama Raghavan...

The Environmental, Psychological and Ethical Dimension This article probes into the whys of disasters through the prism of Deep Ecology...

“How do we draw urgent attention to Environmental Issues and spark immediate action?” This seems to be one of the biggest global...

“Monkey Business”: Painting by Rama (Medium: photo ink on paper) We often come across some key moments during our travels that tend to...

A review of the Advait Resorts, Mahabaleshwar Who doesn’t get bitten by the monotony bug every once in a while? My husband and I are no...

Luca, Disney Pixar’s animation movie, made in 2021, is a heartwarming narrative about battling inner conflicts, building courage,...

Certain memories that dwell in the deep recesses of our minds, surface when we traverse a certain space, hear specific sounds, or catch a...

Monsoon around the corner, impending rains and a decision to make- our vacation destination! This was tricky given the odd time this was...

The term ‘view’ has varying connotations with shifting contexts. In today’s day and age, it stirs up the obsession over the incessant...

Abstract translations of the subconscious Enter REM Cycle, the freak show begins A circus of flying objects, crawling beasts, dirty...

Krishna under the flaming Gulmohur (6″ x 6″) Acrylic on Canvas