Creating immersive, culturally rooted designs for films, games and publications..
As far as introduction go…Studio, Yes.
But, before I started working in concept art and the ‘visuals’ happened…I graduated in literature as a back bencher. And it was in those years that I caught the itch to write. And it still scratches at my consciousness. So I write.
My stories, like my illustrations, swim between magical realism and the mundane. They are speculations of the everyday and the unglamorous; a dreamlike medley of realities and illusions.
Satori is caught in a spiralling dance between the bottle, the haze, and the wreckage of people he’s pushed away. His days blur in a fog of guilt and half-memories, and even when he reaches for clarity, it slips through his fingers.
The question is, can he pull himself back — or will the bottle take what’s left of him?
Bandar Chhaap becomes Baanar
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Studio F-ARTs from September
Getting featured in the guardian; and well, there other updates 🙂
Further Notes on Build In Public
A much needed honest review of the future of this studio.
Bhanu is a Lightbulb
I gave him the plug for the television, and it turned on.
Love in the Time of Plastic Fields
She was made of marble, he of brittle bones.
The Fluid Dream
A story of courage and realisations in the face of a threat written in a stream of consciousness style.
Prohibition: A Hangover of Failures
India’s confused experiments with alcohol prohibition.
Worldbuilding with Speculative Policies
A blueprint for a more humane and integrated response to alcohol-related harms in the thousand arms.
Alcohol in India: A Bottle of Contradictions
In this episode I explore governance policies around alcohol and speculate on probable futures.
