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Nandita Badami

is an object-enthusiast based in New Delhi.

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Thinking Objectively

By Nandita BadamiSeptember 20, 2012
India is a bazaar of thingness where stuff proliferates in excess of any attempts at categorization. The stacks, bundles, and piles yield another mode of looking, unknown at the factory or supermarket.
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