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Wanting to promote diverse art forms and craft traditions in collaboration with local communities, I set up The Art Inspired Store as a pilot experiment. The store creates and curates products inspired by art in collaboration with artists and craft producers. So far, the progress has been interacting with customers on WhatsApp and in person through a Pop-Up store, being stocked by a few retail stores, making some sales, trying to understand customers’ needs, and testing product ideas with artisans and craftsmen.
TheGreyReview (www.TheGreyReview.com)was set up in 2020 as an opinion platform to review the world through diverse perspectives. Contributing a few opinion pieces to it and requesting writers to contribute their perspectives to it has been my progress so far.
‘SpeakOut!’ – a campaign against bullying and sexual abuse
In 2018, I initiated a campaign that involved cycling across the states of Karnataka and Maharashtra to understand the issue of bullying and sexual and to spread awareness about it along the way. Using art as a medium, we engaged in dialogue with the people we met along the way.
Experiencing and understanding the state of cycling infrastructure in the city of Bangalore
I began enjoying cycling and interacting with people on the road. It helped me get a closer look into the lives of people around me. I also was experiencing and understanding the state of cycling infrastructure in the city of Bangalore.
Getting shortlisted to become the Bicycle Mayor of Bangalore in 2018 allowed me to meet other cycling enthusiasts and those who wanted better cycling infrastructure in Bangalore.
Maharshi Sanket 