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A studied play of custom-designed artificial lighting flirts with an optimized use of natural available light in the remodelling of this courthouse. Check out the feature and leave us your views...

What is the key to good architecture? Is it spatial configuration? Materiality? What? Check out this accolade-gathering home and leave us your views… http://inditerrain.indiaartndesign.com/2015/02/play-of-volumes.html

Multi-disciplinary design firm, @cluster-one-creative-solutions designs a stand-out abode spanning 3250 sq. ft. in Chandrapur, where a tasteful play of design, patterns, colours and materials that stand out in a neutral envelope, following a theme of contrasts. Read on to know more….

The first Piada at Lyon designed by Valencia-based studio Masquespacio plays greatly with happy colours, plants and a neon signboard that infuses Italy in France, just like the client's mum would've wanted! Read on to know more here…

DCA Architects, New Delhi play with monochromes and mirrors to create a luxury salon in Hyderabad inspired from the branding concept. Read on to know more here...

Can the digital medium bring to life your every whim? Check out the digital geometries that German artist Tobias Gremmler plays with for the upcoming Kung Fu Exhibition in September 2016. Do tell us what you think…

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…

French design Stephanie Marin designs a modular kit that can make any kind of furniture - completely to your design and style! Check it out and leave us your views...

A contemporary home with traditional touches is cleverly designed to offer both privacy and a visual connect to nature. Read here and leave us your views...

Ar. Gaurav Roy Choudhury creates a three-dimensional volumetric play in this modern home in Bangalore. Check it out here and leave us your comments…

What role can the interior design of a residence play in a space-starved city grappling with rising temperatures and lack of greenery? Check out this inward-designed home that ingeniously maximises natural light and ventilation…

Building on the fact that our imagination has no bounds, its creators at Material Immaterial studio envisages concrete architectural miniatures will weave a new thought each time you view them. Read here and leave us your views…

Why do designers fall back on the tried and tested for timelessness? Read about this simple chic home in Mumbai and enlighten us with your views…

"During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months."

Editor's note: The Wall Street Journal lit up the blogosphere last weekend with an article titled, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior. This played right into the stereotypes about Asian parents being obsessed with their children's education and myths about Chinese and Indian education being superior to U.S. education. The Journal article was over the top-way over. In fact, TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa called it "bizarre" in a response that he wrote in his BusinessWeek column. Chinese and Indian parents really do care about their children, just as American parents do, as do others all over the world. Some Chinese and Indian parents are really strict and push their children extremely hard. But he doesn't know any who would call their children "garbage" either in private or in public as the Journal described. And he doesn't know any middle-class Indian or Chinese children, in this day and age, who allow themselves to be subjected to the type of abuse the article details. You can read his views. But here is the perspective of one of his Twitter followers, Dr. AnnMaria De Mars, President of The Julia Group.  She said that she felt compelled to write this after reading his piece.

I'm genuinely excited today to announce the release of my new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. As of this morning, it is available in bookstores as well as for shipping online. The book focuses on what I began realizing several years ago is the crucial theme tying together most of the topics I write about: America's two-tiered justice system - specifically, the way political and financial elites are now vested with virtually absolute immunity from the rule of law even when they are caught committing egregious crimes, while ordinary Americans are subjected to the world's largest and one of its harshest and most merciless penal states even for trivial offenses. As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be - the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities - into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality. This is how I described that development in the book: