Co-lab looks at living & working in the Indian Asia, as an opportunity to work through the many layers of a palimpsest. Traveling across the subcontinent documenting precious cultures, vanishing tribes, encountering little known lives, finds us making incredible journeys into the heart of the matter. At its core are people, their beliefs, customs, language systems, songs, rituals, art & craft. There are  here a million broken tones between the pitch black containing all hues and the pure white empty of all. Collaborating with people across regions we explore the double binds of tradition-modernity, reality-imagination, perception-illusion, truth-beauty et al.

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With an eye to nurturing an inter-dependent existence, through every project undertaken here, we work towards a deliberate slowing down, fostering a climate for reflection & consideration in a world of speed highways and disrupted dialogues, to slowly begin to rebuild, sometimes even from scratch. Learning here is lifelong- nomad-ic in nature, inter-dependent in spirit. Focus is on gleaning the essence of be-ing human, through studies in Indian Asia ; the philosophy, aesthetics, oral culture, tangible, intangible heritage thereof form the core of the study.