Design & Culture
Since 2009, the New Generations – Independent Indian Film Festival Frankfurt brings cinematic highlights from Indian Independent Cinema to Germany. The program features exciting feature films every year, as well as documentaries and short films, including several German premieres. As an official extension of the festival, I’m…
I’ve come up with two project ideas for more diversity in German media and economy. Both got selected at the Open Innovation Challenge initiated by startup incubator Media Lab Bayern. With great support from Vimal Kandoth and Sepiedeh Fazlali I was able to create beta…
Happy Independence Day! I couldn’t resist to do this month’s Masala Movement podcast myself. One good thing caused by the pandemic is that I’ve been listening to a lot of music again .. favourite tunes from the past as well as recent beats, rhymes and…
Me and my partners at Masala Movement Sepiedeh Fazlali and Pravini Baboeram are currently carving out the brand principles and vision for our growing platform. Meanwhile I couldn’t resist to put a representative visual together based on a mix-and-match illustration set I came across some…
The Internet can connect and divide, emancipate and polarise causing both good and irreversible bad. It is contradictory, exponentially growing, cross-cultural and an inexhaustible source of inspiration. In the form of an annual art event INDERNET is about exploring the parallels and interaction between digital…
I always wanted to record a vinyl only mix and since I’m kind of stuck at home it seemed like the perfect time to do so. It was late in the night or rather early morning of April 1st, so please don’t take it too…
My talented friends Vathsalan Rajan and Reena Pathrose came up with an Indian dance theatre including 31 dancers. I was more than happy to help them organising and promoting this great project. We had two fully booked. „Desolate darkness has spread all over the kingdom…
Finally Masala Movement is starting its monthly podcast featuring global artists, expressing musical diversity and breaking barriers between genres. I was very happy to do the kick-off 🙂 Tracklist: 01 Lorbeerblatt (Instrumental) – T9 02 Gosh – Jamie xx 03 Candy (featuring Hashback Hashish) –…
Since 2009, the New Generations – Independent Indian Film Festival Frankfurt brings cinematic highlights from Indian Independent Cinema to Germany. The program features exciting feature films every year, as well as documentaries and short films, including several German premieres. As an official extension of the festival, I’m…
I’m happy that we got a bit more media attention than last year …
In the form of a multi-day exhibition, we (me and the Masala Movement team) presented artworks and designs by Indian and India-inspired creatives, who use the Internet as both an instrument and a stage. The second edition of INDERNET took place as part of the…
I guess my baby ain’t a baby anymore. The new Masala Movement platform is finally live! During the past year I’ve been working on rebranding and relaunching my heart project dedicated to intercultural creativity and lifestyle since 2004. In order to strengthen its structure and vision…
Since 2009, the New Generations – Independent Indian Film Festival Frankfurt brings cinematic highlights from Indian Independent Cinema to Germany. The program features exciting feature films every year, as well as documentaries and short films, including several German premieres. As an official extension of the…
Me and Vineetha organised a photo exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum. In the 1960s, the first nurses from the southern Indian state of Kerala came to Germany. They could barely speak the language and had never seen a country other than their homeland. Sister Kerala…
The project INDERNET wants to explore the parallels and above all the interaction between digital and Indian culture. Here, it is important to balance on the increasingly narrow level between inflation and innovation, commercialization and self-fulfillment, technology and spirituality, nationality and identity. As part of the 10th Cologne…
After we had to shut down our Cairo office due to the recession after the revolution I moved back to Europe and my business partner Sagar Ghoting eventually went on to do his Master in Service Design at the Glasgow School of Art. Of course…