https://georgesupreeth.com/web/tags/culture/Recent content in Culture on George SupreethHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 15 Apr 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_drawing_at_sabha/Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_drawing_at_sabha/On Sunday, we drew at Bengaluru’s newsest Heritage Space, Sabha. Sabha, the recently renovated heritage space in Ulsoor, Bengaluru, conducted an open house on Sunday. Penciljam was invited to be a part of the event, so about 60 of us arrived there with our sketchbooks. There were different types of musical performances, and I sat in one Baithak of Hindustani Classical Music performed by the sitartist Siddharth Garud accompanied on tabla by Kaushik Bhat.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_an_escheresque_orientalism/Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_an_escheresque_orientalism/How should I feel about an Indian five-star hotel that adopts an Orientalist aesthetic? The pragmatic side of me says that as a service-designer, I should understand the expectations of the foreign tourist demographic, especially the older, retired Europeans and Americans visiting the India they’ve read about by authors like Rudyard Kipling. That the hotel industry is a part of India’s service driven economy, and that the hotel’s decor, and its staff uniforms affect an orientalist aesthetic to meet the idealised expectations of a particular tourist demographic.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_logos_and_vaastu/Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_logos_and_vaastu/I came across this bonkers article on Linkedin written by a Vaastu Shastra expert on why Wipro’s new logo is basically causing the company to sink. The author claims that they design logos using a combination of: “Astrology, Tantra, Vastu, Feng Shui, Graphology, Symbology, Colour Science, and many more streams.“ Here is an excerpt: “In 2020, an employee embezzled about $4 million through the immoral act of password stealing and money transfer from one of Wipro’s bank accounts.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_notes_on_fixing_work_culture/Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_notes_on_fixing_work_culture/Imagine for a moment that Earth was visited by beings from a distant galaxy, one that had it’s own laws of physics. This group of intergalactic tourists may very well view Earth and it’s inhabitants as one homogeneous culture. In the beginning, at least. In time, as more alien visitors arrived, one could imagine that these earthropologists begin to realize what they assumed was a homogeneous culture, is in fact composed of many thousands of smaller sub-cultures, which in turn breakdown to even smaller units until what was left were a few atomic blocks like behavior and environment – elements that are in constant flux.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_of_band-aids_fashion_and_linux/Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_of_band-aids_fashion_and_linux/I can’t correctly recall if this occurred in high school or at art school, but one morning I found myself putting on a pair of canvas shoes with a hole in them. Keds, I think they were called. Anyway, the social inadequacy that had arisen from my inadvertent (podiaquacy?) made me want to do something about it. So I stuck a band-aid over the hole, and drew a voice balloon next to it, with OUCH printed in nice, bold letters.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_the_messenger_medium_and_message/Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_the_messenger_medium_and_message/An odd thing occurred in 2020 among a great many other odd things when a jewellery company called Tanishq released an ad celebrating an Indian festival. The video tells the story of a family of Muslim faith, celebrating a Hindu festival for their daughter-in-law. The unexpected social-media outcry that followed the release of the ad, caused Tanishq to pull it off the air. The ad seems to have crossed an unspoken (until-then) societal boundary.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_bullet_time/Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:25:01 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_bullet_time/“Twenty years ago, near Honey Grove, in Texas, James Ziegland, a wealthy young farmer won the hand of Metilda Tichnor, but jilted her a few days before the day fixed for the marriage. The girl, a celebrated beauty, became despondent and killed herself. Her brother, Phil, went to James Ziegland’s home and after denouncing him, fired at him. The bullet grazed the cheek of the faithless lover and buried itself in a tree.https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_red_to_green/Mon, 10 Mar 2014 12:25:02 +0530https://georgesupreeth.com/web/blog/blog_geo_250818_red_to_green/When Arivarasu returned from the fields that night, his wife told him about the arrival of the Koravas. A large group of them had settled on a nearby hillock that connects to the neighbouring Avalooru, and had brought with them about six hundred heads of pack buffalo, which would yield valuable dung for the fields and the hearth. Arivarasu climbed the hillock the next morning, a little anxious about the Koravas – people always said that they were a wild and dangerous lot – but the headman and his friendly tribe soon put him at ease.