Dedicated to Maa-Dada

My grandparents would often repeat this famous proverb to me explain to the diversity of the country where I grew up and spent most of my life, India.

The proverb loosely translates to, “Every few miles, the water changes. Every four miles the speech.”

To put this into perspective, four miles from SVA MFA Products of Design department is Williamsburg.

India is a vast country with a population of 1.4 billion and counting. Its varied geographic, linguistic, economic, social and cultural landscapes means each of these 1.4 billion individuals look, talk, eat, work, and live very differently from one another.