Yasmine Berrada launched Loft Art Gallery from Casablanca in 2009, translating her finance background into a long-term vision for collecting and curation. The gallery champions Moroccan and African artists—bridging local practice with global institutions, fairs and publications—while balancing risk, instinct and deep commitment to research, preservation and international dialogue.
Vikas Swarup — diplomat, novelist, and the mind behind Q&A — has always been drawn to ordinary people carrying extraordinary stories. In this wide-ranging conversation, he reflects on writing Slumdog Millionaire’s source novel in two and a half months, navigating the film’s Oscar glory and its controversies, and what retirement has finally given him: time to write.
Vikram Goyal’s path into design was a layering of disciplines — engineering, development economics and finance — each sharpening the thinking he would eventually bring to India’s ancient craft traditions. When he encountered master artisan Ramesh and began working with brass, he arrived not with the singular lens of a designer, but with a willingness to question inherited assumptions about scale, material, and what craft could truly become.
Psychotherapist and artist Johan Deckmann sources vintage books from second-hand shops, their worn covers bearing traces of past lives—scratches, fades, abandonments. He interrupts this history with hand-painted titles in 1950s-inspired typography, pursuing dogmatic minimalism. In a flashy digital era, his work strips language bare, forging undeniable physical presence that echoes internal fragments and contradictions.
From a Ranbaxy industrialist family and Doon School alum, Mozez Singh ditched finance for storytelling in New York. “Imagination is my currency,” he says, crediting childhood puppetry with pencils for his creative fire. After Tufts, unshakeable self-belief fueled seven tumultuous years to premiere Zubaan at Busan—before Vicky Kaushal’s stardom. Now, his Netflix doc Famous bares Yo Yo Honey Singh’s raw life, warts and all.
Radia Lamrani Karim describes her painting as a spiritual journey toward the awakening of consciousness through form, color, and matter. Working instinctively with oils and acrylics, she creates abstract, immersive compositions that evoke serenity, nature, and meditation, seeking to release a quiet, hopeful energy in a world often drawn to urgency and darkness.