Disha Bijolia

Disha is a Culture & Identity Writer at Homegrown. Her areas of interest cover films, music, art, photography, gender, and counterculture.

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The documentary highlights the stories of typewriter repair expert Rajesh Palta and third-generation luthier Ajay Sharma of Rikhi Ram, using their lived histories to reflect on what is lost when skilled, relationship-based handcraft is pushed aside by digitisation and automation.

'The Disappearing Hand': A Documentary Mapping India’s Eroding Craft Ecosystems

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Factory 5.0 by Studio Aditya Mandlik (SAM), is an installation at Dutch Design Week 2025 that challenges anthropocentric design by imagining architecture with worms.

10,000 Worms Have Helped Build Studio Aditya Mandlik's Factory 5.0.

27 Nov 2025

4 min read

"According to me, authentic South Asian representation simply means that we are telling stories from someone’s lived experience from that particular place."

Nick Sharma Is Bringing Heaps Of South Asian Flair To Disney Animation

26 Nov 2025

4 min read

The festival has travelled through eight Indian cities, carrying with it a commitment to presenting oral traditions, spiritual lineages, and community-led art forms that rarely find a stage at this scale.

Ruhaniyat 2025: Attend A Concert Series Celebrating India’s Living Folk Traditions

26 Nov 2025

3 min read

'Neither This Nor That', interprets themes of identity, hybridity, and myth through garments inspired by Indian folkloric creatures like the yali, makara, and naga.

Day & Age Unveils A Kantha-Driven Capsule Inspired By India’s Mythical Hybridity

25 Nov 2025

3 min read

Atin Bajaj's work draws from Soviet montage theory, experimental form, and sensory editing to build meaning through the collision of image and sound.

Atin Bajaj's Films Build Meaning Through Non-Linear Collisions Of Image & Sound

25 Nov 2025

4 min read

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