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Kanchan Fagwani of Kinteriors eclectically picks on Indian Classical as the thematic to endorse this new Bharatnatyam Academy in Mumbai.

The 3rd edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale that follows the thematic 'Forming in the pupil of an eye' seems to weave several threads of sensitivity by the 97 participating artists. IAnD picks three such intense musings to discover the creative processes behind their works…

The NAACP has just passed a historic resolution demanding an end to the War on Drugs.  The resolution comes as young Black male unemployment hovers near 50 percent and the wealth gap's become a veritable gulf. So why is the forty-year-old "War on Drugs" public enemy number one for the nation's oldest civil rights organization? Well here's why:  it's not extraneous - it's central: the war on drugs is the engine of 21st century discrimination - an engine that has brought Jim Crow into the age of Barack Obama.     Author Michelle Alexander lays out the statistics -- and the stories --  of 21st Century Jim Crow in her ought-to-blow-your-socks off book: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness." I had a chance to sit down with Alexander earlier this summer. We'll be posting the full interview in two parts.     "We have managed decades after the civil rights movement to create something like a caste system in the United States," says Alexander in part one here  "In major urban areas, the majority of African American men are either behind bars, under correctional control or saddled with criminal record and once branded as criminal or a felon, they're trapped for life in 2nd class status."     It's not just about people having a hard time getting ahead and climbing the ladder of success. It's about a rigged system. Sound familiar?  Like the Pew Research Center report on household wealth and the Great Recession -- the NAACP resolution story was a one-day news-blip - despite the fact that it pierces the by-your-bootstraps myth that is at the heart of - you pick it - the deficit, the stimulus, the tax code - every contemporary US economic debate.     White America just maybe ought to pay attention. With more and more Americans falling out of jobs and into debt, criminal records are a whole lot easier to come by than life-sustaining employment.  Contrary to the conventional media version, the "Drug War" story is not a people with problems

What happens when an architect picks up the essence of Moroccan ways of life and exhibits it in Amsterdam? Find out how applying simple design ideas and contextual settings can result in a lasting experience.

IndiaArtnDesign picks out five perky variants of the 'prints-and-patterns' trend in home décor to equip you add an oomph factor to your home this festive season… check them out here…

Team IAnD looks back at our featured luxury residential interiors in the year 2020 and picks out #20 inspirational snapshots that can influence and guide your next design and décor exercise…

From the 200+ features that India Art n Design has published in 2020, we hand-pick the three outstanding stories that resonate the most with our editor.