The Indian Edit

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 18:

Take a virtual trip to the MFA through Google Arts & Culture

Laura’s favorite museum in India: Jawahar Kala Kendra, the cultural institution designed by Charles Correa in Jaipur

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, some of whose works are included in the Google Art Project

A NYT review of “The Sultans of Deccan India: Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age”, the 2015 exhibition and the related 2008 Symposium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Check out their beautiful catalogues and the lecture videos I loved for a deep dive into this world.

More on Ragamala paintings

A History of God The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam By Karen Armstrong

A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts By Joseph M. Bagley

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Special thanks to Aman Moroney @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 17:

Gayatri’s website Culinary Nirvana and instagram

The Japanese foodie film I watched on a plane - if you liked Eat, Drink, Man, Woman you’ll love the food porn in this! The Last Recipe

Trattoria La Pacchia Hokkaido

India Cookbook by Pushpesh Pant

Rick Stein's Long Weekends: Over 100 New Recipes from My Travels Around Europe

Marcus Wareing’s New Classics Inspiring and Delicious Recipes to Transform Your Home Cooking

The Culinary Institute of America

The Peninsula, Tokyo

Red Lipstick!

Lisa Eldridge Velvet Jazz

Nars Shanghai Express

Pat McGrath Vendetta

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Special thanks to Aman Moroney and Mohit Shandilya @ Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 16:

Jaipur Literature Festival website

The JLF programme - Click on Watch Session under each and you can see complete video - Colson Whitehead, Mary Beard and so many more incredible speakers, enough to keep you occupied until next year’s festival!

Jaipur Bytes podcast where you can hear most sessions from the festival

Sohaila Abdulali’s Session “What we talk about when we talk about rape” video and audio

Full Circle Bookstore & Cafe in New Delhi

Oxford Bookstore in Calcutta and Maina Bhagat

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

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

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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.