Author Archives: Aiyana Gunjan

Stay at home and online schooling is the call of the hour. How will the Digital Native generation react to being taught through the vacuum of the screen? Pre pandemic, being glued to the screen meant having fun, hanging out, playing games, surfing scanning everything n anything. It was about freedom and ‘my’ will. AndContinue reading “stay@home kids”

Covivid it is! It was fascinating working with sacred geometry- the geometry occurring in the universe/nature. So vividly, so organically, it demonstrated the interconnectedness, the repetitive precision of tessallation occurring in the Universe. Today, this painting from my Indiglo Series 2018, stares in my face …isn’t the corona virus riding on the sacred pattern ofContinue reading “Interconnected”

Covid Sound Byte: When shutterbugs go shut in a lockdown, the sound of music goes LIVE . It’s calming to wake up to live music streaming on a lockdown morning. Thank you Subrataji. So Covivid is the sound of silence and the power of music. We can now listen to the birds chirping, thanks toContinue reading “Sound Bytes”

Covid 19 Reality Bite: work-FROM-home And work-FOR-home. So Covivid is the ‘Maid-in-India’ crisis today. It takes a corona virus to show the double-responsibility-double- stress the Indian working woman has borne, in the double income households. The maid has been her COO at home, making sure all gets done well at home and office. Her right handContinue reading “W-From/For-H”

Black Swan – a random event, highly improbable, nearly impossible to predict, unknown but having a huge impact on our lives. This Pandemic is surely a Black Swan event, changing the world by 180 degrees. Travel n Trade – the lifeline of globalisation became the vehicle of this rapid spread, across boundaries. It attacked theContinue reading “Black Swan”

It was a typical day at work, brainstorming on a hair-care brand. A young colleague, with a puzzled look, asked me – ‘ Please tell me, why did you get your hair cut so short?” It felt like someone asking me – Why do you have such a long nose? She just couldn’t fathom whyContinue reading “The long and short of femininity”