| seeing the unseen

THE GARDEN STORIES
Vaidehi Bhagwat
LA 71
The Indian Garden?

Ancient literature – the Ramayana, for example – represents the garden as a ‘van’ or a woodland. And then, of course, there are gardens that are attached to temples and palaces, wadis, the public gardens, zoological and botanical gardens, and private gardens. Rajput patrons expressed the form with rectilinear and curving flower beds, or floating pavilions, water features, and incorporated with spaces resembling sacred groves. And then, as time passed, the idea of the ‘garden’ in India – for the longest time – came to be associated with Islamic and Persian traditions, where the Garden was akin to Paradise. The conversation was later extended to the formal English gardens introduced to India by the British.

All this to say that the idea of the Indian garden is infinite!


 


| nature in the city

RECLAIMING DEGRADED PUBLIC SPACE
In conversation with Latika Thukral


WEAVING GREEN CONNECTIONS
ACROSS SOCIO-ECONOMIC
AND TOPOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES |
BADSHAHPUR FOREST CORRIDOR | GURUGRAM
Tvara Sharma


DESIGN, EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENT
NOIDA BIODIVERSITY PARK | NOIDA
Sachin Jain

| about sustainability

BRIDGING THE GAP
Akshay Kaul


RETHINKING THE LANDSCAPE OF LAWNS
Uma Sekar


| heritage and conservation

ADDRESSING PARADOXES
HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN POSTCOLONIAL INDIA | APPROACHES AND CHALLENGES
Review by A.G.K. Menon


VALUES, AUTHENTICITY AND MEANING
CONSERVING THE SPIRIT OF A HISTORIC GARDEN
Review by Nikhil Dhar


| rural discourse

PARABLES OF AN UNADDRESSED AGENDA
EVERYBODY LOVES A GOOD DROUGHT |
STORIES FROM INDIA’S POOREST DISTRICTS
Review by Sriganesh Rajendran


| seeing the unseen

THE GARDEN STORIES
Vaidehi Bhagwat


DECIPHERING THE HIDDEN LINKS
BETWEEN LANDSCAPE & WELL-BEING

FLASH FICTION COMPETITION
ISOLA Mumbai Chapter


| with nature

TO BELONG TALIESIN WEST, ARIZONA
Ajit Nagpurkar



























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