The Design Maverick
16 April 2012
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Charu Bahri
Pradyumna Vyas, Director, NID, is unorthodox in thoughts and design; a self-believer, who sculpted his destiny
FACT FILE
NAME: Pradyumna Vyas
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT: Director, National Institute of Design
THINGS HE LIKES:
BOOKS: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by MK Gandhi/The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck
MOVIE: Three Idiots, Taare Zameen Par
MUSIC: Beethoven
CUISINE: Home cooked food
PASTIME: Playing with and upkeep of my dog Lola
HOLIDAY DESTINATION: North Sikkim
HIS LITTLE SECRET: I’d like to have a date with myself, to enjoy my own company
FACT FILE
NAME: Pradyumna Vyas
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT: Director, National Institute of Design
THINGS HE LIKES:
BOOKS: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by MK Gandhi/The Road Less Travelled by Scott Peck
MOVIE: Three Idiots, Taare Zameen Par
MUSIC: Beethoven
CUISINE: Home cooked food
PASTIME: Playing with and upkeep of my dog Lola
HOLIDAY DESTINATION: North Sikkim
HIS LITTLE SECRET: I’d like to have a date with myself, to enjoy my own company
He sculpted his own groove literally. And, he thanks his liberal upbringing for giving him the free hand to chart this satisfying and highly successful journey. Pradyumna
Vyas, Director, National Institute of Design had a rather vagabond childhood, thanks to his forest officer father’s transferable job. Each new posting, brought young Vyas a new set of friends, a new school, new surroundings, in short, it meant undergoing a transformation of sorts. Being a forest officer’s son also meant living all that much closer to nature and its first inhabitants in the interiors of protected forest areas.
The ambience had many lessons for the young lad—he studied in municipal or missionary schools and counted children of tribal origin as his mates. This varied environment every two to three years made Vyas an adept swimmer in the sea of newness. In his words: “I learnt to adjust with people from diverse circumstances.” And thus were planted the seeds of a people’s person in Vyas.
Destiny Beckons
His fascination for forms wasn’t found odd by his parents and there was no opposition. In a day and age when any such passion for the fine arts would have met with scorn and an instant put down, Vyas only met encouragement from his folks. “My parents were happy to let me find myself and pursue my happiness without impressing their beliefs on me,” he reminisces.
Vyas, now a teenager, began indulging his fascination for solid forms with wood and metal. “I had no professional training or tools in sculpture, but expressing my creativity through the medium became a passion.
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