SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 15:

Amba on Instagram and Facebook where you can connect with Hema

Don’t miss a beautiful look inside Hema’s Art Deco home in Bombay’s Malabar Hill in House & Garden magazine UK - spotted Seema Krish textiles on Hema’s chairs (Seema was my gracious guest on Ep. 9) and some lovely photos of Hema with Sally Holkar and the Amba team in Maheshwar.

Learn more about all the incredible art, textiles, and places we discussed below:

Rehwa Society

Women Weave

Ahilya Fort in Maheshwar, home of the Holkar family, part of which they now run as a hotel

The Agnes Martin exhibition at the Guggenheim New York that inspired Hema’s previous collection

Fiona Caulfield’s brilliant Love Travel Guides

Artist William Kentridge at Kochi and at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner museum

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao

Hema’s friend and artist Lisa Barsumian

The exhibition at the Prince of Wales / CSMVS Mumbai India and the World: a History in 9 stories a collaboration with the British Museum and the National Museum, Delhi. Exhibition catalogue is here.

Stylist Ekta Rajani who styled and modeled Amba’s Indus Valley Collection

Bombay picks:

Bungalow 8

Khadi & Village Industries Emporium

Kasab

Books!

The Little Prince By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Books by the illustrator Maira Kalman

The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St. Clair

Early Indians : The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph

Louise Nicholson’s India Companion

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Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 14:

Follow Ayesha on instagram @Fitgirl.india and the us @theindianeditpodcast

Ayesha’s fantastic TEDx talk The Power of The Mind

Ayesha’s YouTube channel

Cathy Freeman’s autobiography

Abhinav Bindra’s book A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold

Bob Richards’ The Heart of a Champion

Budapest’s beautiful hilltop park Normafa

Dhansak - a delicious meat and lentils Parsi classic - here’s a recipe

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 13:

Adventures in Art website where you can find details on upcoming trips

Tag along with AIA on their fabulous trips through Karen’s instagram

Learn more about all the incredible art, jewelry and other favorites we discussed below:

Art Fairs:

FIAC Paris

Art Basel

Frieze

India Art Fair Delhi

Artists:

Subodh Gupta

Bharti Kher

Tony Cragg

Jewelry:

JAR at the Met

British Crown Jewels at the Tower of London

Viren Bhagat at the V&A exhibit

Hemmerle

Neha Dani at the Macklowe Gallery

James Taffin de Givenchy - Taffin

Luz Camino

Lorenz Baumer

Museums & Exhibitions:

The Body Transformed at the Met until Feb 24, 2019

Jewels of the Maharajas at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco also until Feb 24, 2019

Detroit Institute of Arts

Crystal Bridges

Fay Jones’ Thorncrown Chapel

Balenciaga Exhibit

Jaipur Favorites:

Contemporary Sculpture park

Gem Palace

Royal Gem Arts - off the beaten track haveli

Gyan museum

Hot Pink

Kashmir Loom for shawls

Books:

Women Jewellery Designers

Hidden Gems: Stories from the Saleroom

Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice

Isabella Stewart Gardner

Alice Walton

Follow us on Instagram for news on Karen and the designers and artists we discussed in this episode!

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES FROM EPISODE 12:

Shuchi’s website where you can find links to her writing and beautiful instagram

The Brookline Booksmith Transnational Literature Series website which includes their past selections and the WGBH Forum link of recorded author events

The Wellspring House Writer’s retreat

BOOKS and films we discussed:

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Wajib the fantastic film by Annemarie Jacir (with an incredible real life father-son duo starring!)

Disoriental by Negar Djavadi

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

American Fictionary by Dubrakva Ugresic

Poso Wells by Gabriela Aleman

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso - 1st graphic novel longlisted for the Man Booker!

Edward Said’s Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

SHUCHI’S BOOKSTORE PICKS:

Titcomb’s Bookshop if you’re ever in East Sandwich on Cape Cod

Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem

Skylight Books in LA

City Lights in San Francisco

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES FROM EPISODE 11:

MoveUp’s Facebook page

Short video by MoveUp: Moving Towards the American Dream with Heena and others talking about their struggles and successes as immigrants

Besharam, Heena Patel’s restaurant in SF

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

Instant Pot - a pressure cooker / slow cooker hybrid

Jagriti Yatra - a formative college experience for Nikita, in which 500 young Indians take a train journey across the country meeting social entrepreneurs

Secret Superstar, the inspiring film that is one of Nikita’s recent faves

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES from Episode 10:

Hidden Life of Trees the surprise bestseller by Peter Wohlleben

Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery by Alys Fowler who has a Gardening column at the Guardian

Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field by Howard Hughes

Sea and Shore Cornwall by Lisa Woollett

Sea Journal by Lisa Woollett

Scotland’s Treescapes by Stuart Low

Cultivating Place - one of my favorite podcasts, I think the description “On Being for gardeners and nature lovers” is so apt!

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

Follow us both on instagram @theindianeditpodcast and @seemakrishtextiles to read more about Seema’s work. For more on one of Seema’s sustainability initiatives, check out the zero-waste project.

Books and other cool stuff we discussed on Episode 9:

Japanese art textiles at NUNO

Satya Paul who was an innovative sari designer who launched contemporary, printed saris in the 1980s

Tharangini Studios in Bangalore, who print Seema’s fabrics

The iconic Nalanda bookstore in the Taj, now open as part of the CMYK group, and this wonderful tribute to the sad closing after 70 years, of another iconic Bombay The Strand Bookstore earlier this year. BOOK LOVERS - it’s a must watch and a powerful reminder of the serendipitous discoveries we miss out on when we search for specific titles on amazon.

Brigitte Singh: Printress of the Mughal Garden

Peter Korn’s Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman

A related book by Alexander Langlands: Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya & Rajat Upadhyay / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering.

SHOW NOTES Episode 8: Check out the Maisha Concept website for all the gorgeous clothes and accessories - and the Maisha blog and instagram for the behind the scenes process, and Rakhee’s travels on instagram here!

Here are links to some of my faves - people always stop me and ask where I got them! The Amber brown skirt, Masaai cape which is so soft and stunning in person, and the fun Freedom Shirt dress - I hope you find something you like - don’t forget to use the code Rakhee offered to get 20% OFF, and to share on instagram using #maishatribe !

Books and other favorites we discussed on the episode:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Crazy Rich Asians (of course!) by Kevin Kwan

#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri

Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Sen

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering

SHOW NOTES Episode 7:

Read more about the radio station set-up and listen live here (the music is so soothing, I can see why that Brazilian listener enjoyed it :)

Follow us on instagram @theindianeditpodcast for some incredible pictures of Arti and the team (including her kids) setting the radio station up from scratch!

Children’s fiction and non-fiction lovers, check out Pitara here

Books and authors we discussed on Episode 7:

Amitav Ghosh’s work, which Arti describes as being “painted with tiny, tiny brush strokes”: The Ibis Trilogy, The Hungry Tide, Glass Palace, Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma and other essays

Rohinton Mistry’s work

Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1984

Special thanks to Mohit Shandilya / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering

SHOW NOTES Episode 6:

Gitika's website at Wydler Brothers

Follow Gitika on instagram

More on her Kids Talk Race story

Recommendations from the show:

The Book that inspired Gitika to re-frame her work goals The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by Brian Moran

The book she wants to read The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod

And the episode of the Podcast By The Book which I suggested she listen to instead :)

Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy - I was skeptical, but I trust my lovely friend Annalyn who recommended it and am now SOLD - a satirical look at the private jet set, a must read for fashion, jewelry and

Another article Gitika recommends by Jay Dixit: The Art of Now

Apple AirPods - Gitika is a convert!

Trunk Club by Nordstrom - to which she gives two thumbs up

Special thanks once again to Mohit Shandilya / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering