“Most of the time, I have precedents in mind: a beautifully designed interior from a magazine, or animal drawings in an old science book,” says Banerjee, an illustrator-cum-architect who captures the colourful chaos of India in jigsaw puzzles.
Soft cells can determine something as small as a zebra's stripes, to the formation of river islands, all due to a lack of sharp corners. Might it inspire new decor or puzzle ideas?
Lewis Carroll's absurd universe may hold traces of his beliefs as a mathematics professor at Oxford. Marrying logic with imagination, he was also a prolific creator of puzzles.
Wordplay gurus Harshul Sagar and Arush Utkarsh continue to dominate at the National Inter-College Crossword Expedition (NICE), whose 2024 Grand Finale was held this Wednesday.
Animikha Dutta Dhar, Shrilakshmi Venkatraman and Faraz Siddiqui relied on Sherlockian levels of deduction to bag one silver and two bronze medals at the International Linguistics Olympiad.
A deposed king who found refuge in art, Wadiyar III’s passions once created India’s mightiest collection of traditional board games — a treasury he hoped to one day “broadcast” around the world.
[Codebreaking Game Inside] In the Navajo language, fighter planes flew as “hummingbirds”, tortoises became tanks, and submarines swam as “iron fish” — and their most important job was to stay lost in translation.
Radhika Merchant on feminism, marriage, matriarchy: ‘Some places Anant leads…’
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Radhika Merchant Ambani, in an interaction with I.I.M.U.N., discussed her upbringing in a matriarchal family and the importance of educating both men and women about respecting each other's expectations. Psychotherapist Delnna Rrajesh stressed the significance of mutual respect in relationships and suggests intentional conversations to understand each other's emotional needs.
