creativity

Sanal Kumar Sasidharan: The Original

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The Malayalam filmmaker has shattered received wisdom and established himself as the new auteur to watch

The Crayon Revolution

Nandini Nair

What is the lure of the adult colouring book? Is it a sign of boredom and loneliness? Does it alleviate stress? Is it a return to childhood? Or is it a symptom of ‘rage against the machine’?

Space Girl

Chinki Sinha

Kohelika Kohli, architect and interior designer, is inspired by India’s cultural heritage but is not trapped in it

Wacom Cintiq

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

A tablet for creative professionals that delivers top pen-on-screen performance

An Underdog Wins

Kallol Datta

What emotion does to creativity

Synaptic Sizzle

Aresh Shirali

A book that puts the brain under a scanner to make scientific sense of creativity

Confessions of an Advertising Professional

arindam

“One of the main problems is people stealing credit. Most creative directors happily accept awards for ads they didn’t conceive”

Sholay, the Beginning

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Hindi cinema’s biggest blockbuster officially completes 35 years this 15 August, but it was actually born in 1973 in a small room. Screenplay writer Salim Khan remembers how Sholay was conceived.

In Defence of the Uncreative

Madhavankutty Pillai

He will be more prosperous and happier than the creative Indian. And he has a far greater influence over you than you imagine

50 Most Creative Indians

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Some are famous, some are not. You may agree with the list, you may not. But these are in our view the most imaginative men and women in the country. In no particular order.