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Find out how the intelligent use of colour has created an atmosphere conducive for work at the TUV India office designed by Spacetech Designs, where drama and passion are palpable! Do leave us your comments

Drew Westen is a professor of psychology at Emory University and the author of "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation."

Designing for the contemporary Indian, Sahil & Sarthak play with interesting nuances of yore that are easily attractive and find passionate use in new homes and surroundings. Check out their offerings and leave us your feedback…

"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."- John F. KennedyThere's one thing for sure: 2008 isn't anything like politics as usual.The corporate media (with their unerring eye for the obvious point) is fixated on the narrative that, for the first time ever, Americans will likely end this year with either a woman or a black man headed for the White House. Bloggers are telling stories from the front lines of primaries and caucuses that look like something from the early 60s - people lining up before dawn to vote in Manoa, Hawaii yesterday; a thousand black college students in Prairie View, Texas marching 10 miles to cast their early votes in the face of a county that tried to disenfranchise them. In recent months, we've also been gobstopped by the sheer passion of the insurgent campaigns of both Barack Obama and Ron Paul, both of whom brought millions of new voters into the conversation - and with them, a sharp critique of the status quo and a new energy that's agitating toward deep structural change.There's something implacable, earnest, and righteously angry in the air. And it raises all kinds of questions for burned-out Boomers and jaded Gen Xers who've been ground down to the stump by the mostly losing battles of the past 30 years. Can it be - at long last - that Americans have, simply, had enough? Are we, finally, stepping out to take back our government - and with it, control of our own future? Is this simply a shifting political season - the kind we get every 20 to 30 years - or is there something deeper going on here? Do we dare to raise our hopes that this time, we're going to finally win a few? Just how ready is this country for big, serious, forward-looking change?Recently, I came across a pocket of sociological research that suggested a tantalizing answer to these questions - and also that America may be far more ready for far more change than anyone really believes is possible at this moment. In fac

Moulding traditional design into contemporary lifestyle with a discerning play of design elements, The Purple Ink Studio's Bengaluru residence works on their passionate tripartite principle - architecture-landscape-sustainability! Check it out here…

With a passion for creating distinctive spaces through experimentation, modern construction and an analytical approach, Studio Ardete's latest, Boston Bites, is a café in Mohali that takes you on a journey to Boston and celebrates its cultural ethos. Find out more here…

Ar. Hassan Arji takes us on a tour of his Paris home that is dotted by his passion for all things design and flaunts his signature style that is the hallmark of ARJITEC.

Ar. Anika Mittal Dhawan from mold design studio stresses on the importance of feel-good activities to alienate periods of creative drought. Check out what she has to say about his "go-to therapists…

"I believe that design is fuelled by inspiration and motivation, but the journey is incomplete without discipline," says Ar. Rupande Shah as she tells us how she overcomes her creative roadblocks in IAnD's special feature #MyGotoTherapist

The mind works in different ways; and both, construction, and deconstruction contribute significant take-aways from moments of creative sterility… Check out what rejuvenates Ar. Nandini Somaya Sampat, Director, Somaya & Kalappa Consultants, Mumbai