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DrChawla has published three other edited and co-authored books and over 50 essays in peer-reviewed journals and anthologies. She is Senior Editor (for south Asia and southeast Asia) for the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Communication. She is the editor-in-chief of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, a journal published by the University of California Press. She is currently at work on a family memoir on objects, affect, and migration.

Louise Chawla is professor emerita in the Program in Environmental Design at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously associate director of the Children, Youth and Environments Center and co-editor of the Center's journal Children, Youth and Environments, she is now a Community Engagement, Design and Research (CEDaR) fellow. She is an active participant in Growing Up Boulder, a partnership that she helped establish between CEDaR, the Boulder Valley School District and the City of Boulder to integrate the ideas of children and youth into urban planning and design. Formerly international coordinator of the Growing Up in Cities program of UNESCO from 1996-2006, she now serves as an advisor for a revival of this initiative that involves young people in cities around the world in evaluating and improving their urban communities. She is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Children and Nature Network. She has written three books and many book chapters and journal articles on children and nature, children in cities, and the development of active care for the natural world. Most recently, she is a coauthor of the book, Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities (New Village Press, 2018).

Chawla, L., Editor and Co-Author. (2002). Growing Up in an Urbanising World. Paris/London: UNESCO/Earthscan Publications. Book and project on which it is based won Environmental Design Research Association "Place Research Award."

On February 7, 1497, friar Giralamo Savanarola raised a blaze in Florence, Italy. His supporters, called the Weepers, collected and burned thousands of objects deemed immoral, including books, cosmetics, playing cards, musical instruments, and artworks. Ironically, three months later, the people asked him to prove his piety by walking on fire; he refused. He was charged with heresy and sedition by the very Pope that he had called corrupt. Savanarola was hung and his body burnt in the same square where the bonfire of vanities had been held.

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How do you think AI is shaping our visual aesthetics and how do you use that in in your exhibition?

The AI is absolutely incredible. AI will be a wake-up call to all lazy artists because the repetitive & derivative art that we see around us will lose its zing very soon. AI can be very unforgiving unless we learn to create from an absolute new fresh, original perspective entirely of our own. AI relies on a certain set of data which exists. If an artist or a photographer has to be relevant, they have to create something fresh and unimagined as part of their practice too. So maybe the artists who got away with the hackneyed & oversized school of art will not be able to get away with it in the future. AI will force us to be innovative, and not let us rely on the old ways of seeing. Today, some of what constitutes contemporary art is laughable and no obtuse curatorial note or the obligatory blindfold that gallerists excel in dispensing to their prized collectors will save them from the creative revolution AI is going to unleash. First photography was democratised with the advent of digital. And so everyone everywhere speaks & practices the language of visuals. With AI the world will soon speak the language of art in its entirety. The nine blind wise curators that sat in a room deciphering the contemporary art elephant will also meet their match because the elephant in any case has now left the room itself.

What does reading these banned books mean to you?

I used to be a voracious reader of classical fiction when I was young. These books I have used in my exhibition were a part of my growing-up years. It's a way of resurrecting them visually for myself too. I have tried to create the covers of these books from subliminal memories that have stayed with me after all these years. So whatever was retained in my head, I have tried to interpret visually. But increasingly because of the information overload and the desire to be up to date with all kinds of information. I notice that the time for pure fiction is shrinking too. Most of my reading now is on science and technology because science and technology are the real politics of tomorrow. We can't be oblivious to it. This marriage of AI with art is something also I wanted to explore for myself.

PLATFORM IS A CREATIVE LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE BASED IN NEW DELHI, INDIA, COVERING A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS IN ART, DESIGN, FASHION, FILM, LIFESTYLE, LITERATURE AND MUSIC. FEATURING THE VERY TALENTED AND THE VERY NEW, PLATFORM HAS BEEN CIRCULATING SINCE 2005.

The history of the written word has long been intertwined with that of censorship. Whenever authors have chosen an idea which seems even slightly provocative for the times, they have faced a backlash from religious, political and legal authorities. It is to emphasise the kind of censorship authors and books face these days that Goa-based photographer Rohit Chawla has recreated covers of banned books for his recent project.

For Chawla, the 30 books he has chosen and their censorship continue to be relevant today. For him, Animal Farm stands as a contemporary metaphor for political practices of the times; and the death of Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny has shades of The Gulag Archipelago, one of the banned books in this series. He believes that literature has the uncanny ability to both record and predict societal mores, and some of these banned books do that even now.

-- I am familiar with the first edition of the book and have used it as recommended reading in one of my courses. Dr. N. Chawla is a recognized authority in the field of computational materials science and has conducted extensive work in the area of image based finite element analysis.

-- The strength in this book pertains to the balanced nature taken toward elucidation of the subject for both students and professionals to learn from on a convenient basis. Unlike other books in the general field, this book is also a one-stop-pick-up-all-you-can tool for anyone doing work related to the field - this contributes to its high rank in the field, also because of the authors' significant professional reputations in the field.

Krishan Chawla is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Among his other awards are: Distinguished Researcher Award at New Mexico Tech, Distinguished Alumnus Award from Banaras Hindu University, Eshbach Society Distinguished Visiting Scholar award at Northwestern University, Faculty Fellow award at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

I distinctly remember a school project that was assigned in fifth grade. We were required to research and present a famous North American to the class. Being South Asian, I searched through the piles of library books to find a famous Canadian who looked like me, and who had a cultural background similar to mine.

Following grade school, Kalpana fought pressures from family to get married and have children like the other young women. She was determined to follow her dreams of studying aerospace engineering in the US. Her dreams became a reality as Kalpana Chawla went on to become the first South Asian American in space.

This non-fiction paperback is filled with detailed illustrations and descriptive text. Children will enjoy reading about the adventures of Kalpana Chawla with each page turn. The text is simple enough to be understood by children as young as six and interesting enough to capture the attention of children upwards of twelve years of age.

This story is not simply a biography about a famous South Asian American. The title Astronaut Kalpana Chawla Reaching for the Stars is a clever play on words; the book not only describes the journey into space by an ambitious young woman, but it also tackles issues of gender equity in South Asian culture.

It portrays a character who fights to follow her unconventional dreams and works hard to achieve them. As the author Ai-Ling Louie describes the challenges faced by Kalpana Chawla and the mistakes that lead to lessons learned, the reader inevitable finds himself or herself connecting to the very real character.

I love your story as I can relate. Growing up East Indian in a small white community had me wondering what famous people were like me when I researched at school. This book sounds wonderful and I would love to read it and then share it with my baby and baby to be as they grow up. Thanks for the chance, twitter fan@plumerea

As a teenager, Rohit Chawla had access to little that could pass for entertainment. So he would read to pass the time. The renowned photographer recalls trekking for miles to the Delhi Public Library to pick cherished books, often re-reading his favourites.

Born in a traditional family of Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana Chawla had an unlikely background and unfavourable climate for becoming an astronaut. Braving opposition from her father and even some of her teachers, Kalpana, however, literally reached for the stars, by becoming an aerospace engineer.

Dilip M Salwi is a Delhi based science writer and a winner of several national awards and fellowships for popularising science. He has also written science fictions and plays involving science and scientists. Several of his books including Scientists of India, The Robots Are Coming and Folk Tales of Science are bestsellers.

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