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Editor's Picks

Entering A World That Inspired Studio Ghibli Films

After falling in love with the films, a virtual tour of Japan is the ideal next step

Photo Essay: In Search of Sunlight in Mumbai

Amid the pandemic, a photographer examines the role of urban planning and architecture in our access to sunlight

Magazine of the Month: Wallpaper*

An issue devoted to the role of design in crisis

INTERVIEWS

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Paul Salopek

Walking the World

ESSAYS

The Art of Losing

Words by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

Books and Reading

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7 Memoirs Through Poetry & Prose

Seven writers share their favourite memoirs of, and sometimes by, literary figures

EVENTS

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Oddly Enough N°5: Where Will Our Food Come From?

Presenting — the fifth edition of Oddly Enough, a series by Paper Planes

DESIGN & LIVING

Goods to Know: Wooden Speakers by Diwiks

Refurbished doors and windows from Rajasthani havelis make up the casing for these limited-edition speakers

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“I am a recent Textile Design graduate and durin

Neeti Banerji (@n.ee.t) takes us through her print

Neeti Banerji (@n.ee.t) takes us through her print collections. “My small but growing collection of zines, collected over various zine fests that happened around my university town. Providence has a large art community, not even counting all the art students from RISD. Zines were a way to discover new techniques — screenprinting, risograph — and a way to break out of the art school bubble to see what artists outside the campus were creating. My prize possession is a misprinted portfolio my friend Anna gave me. It’s stapled a little wonky but the art inside is gorgeous,” she writes. Then there are “single issue comics I’ve 100 per cent bought just for the covers — and also business cards!”
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We’re looking for a peek into your print collection. Show us your magazines, books, zines — whatever you’ve been stacking up. Our DMs are open.

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We’ve still got a few independent magazines on discount. Head over to @thepaperplanesshop while they’re still available. Link’s in our bio too.

Padma Murughappun (@padmamurughappun) sends us a s

Padma Murughappun (@padmamurughappun) sends us a snapshot of her collection of books. “I have two whole shelves of books in my house. One is a shelf with hand-me-downs from my grandfather. That is a treasure trove of old classics in both Tamil and English,” she writes. “Another shelf is the collection of the books that I have which I have curated for 10 years now. This lifelong association with books has pushed me to make a career out of selling one too. I couldn’t be more thankful that I am in a field where we’re surrounded by such awesomeness.”
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We’re looking for a peek into your print collection. Show us your magazines, books, zines — whatever you’ve been stacking up. Our DMs are open.

“I really love picture books because of the way

“I really love picture books because of the way they combine story and illustration and there’s so much to experiment with in the medium! A really good picture book can be read again and again and often I discover new things that I haven’t noticed before in a book I've read a hundred times,” writes @aditi_e. “My mother used to buy me and my brothers picture books when we were small and they were always a part of our home library. When I started going to design college I rediscovered them and became fascinated. I even wrote and illustrated one of my own as my diploma project! I found a lot of beautiful and interesting ones while doing research for my project and that how I started collecting them. Some of the picture books in my collection now are from when I was a kid, but most of them I bought over the past three years. Some of my all-time favourites are ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ by Maurice Sendak, ‘This Moose Belongs to Me’ by Oliver Jeffers, ‘Catch that Crocodile’ by Anushka Ravishankar and Pulak Biswas and ‘The Dog that Dug’ by Jonathan Long and Korky Paul.”
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We’re looking for a peek into your print collection. Show us your magazines, books, zines — whatever you’ve been stacking up. Our DMs are open.

READERS! • As you may be able to tell, we love m

READERS! • As you may be able to tell, we love magazines and magazine readers — we reached out to a few of our subscribers to peek at their collection of cherished magazines. Here’s Snigdha Asthana (@seastarved).

DAY JOB: Director, Eljay Engineering Pvt. Ltd.

CURRENTLY LIVING IN: Chennai

IN A WORD OR TWO, WHAT’S YOUR CURRENT STATE OF MIND? Creative longing

IN A SENTENCE OR TWO, WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES PRINT MAGAZINES SPECIAL FOR YOU? It’s the tactile nature of it. I love feeling the weight of a book in my hands, the act of turning a page, sticking a note in to remember something later. But, especially in these times when the world feels so small and lonely, these magazines give me a way to travel the world again, to hear stories and meet people and gather inspiration. That has been so very valuable to me.

IN AN UNENDING LIST, APART FROM MAGAZINES, WHAT ARE OTHER THINGS YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH? I like to surround myself with stories. I mean books and magazines, of course, but also art that I have collected while travelling, scents that remind me of places and people, teas that remind me of quiet conversations, things that inspire me to create something. I like surrounding myself with things that reflect who I am, back at me. It reminds me that there is so much to be thankful for, especially at times when I don’t quite feel myself.

Here, Snigdha reads Mold and Flow. To subscribe to independent print magazines, visit www.joinpaperplanes.com/bespoke-subscription-service.

Photos + video shot over Zoom by @zeashanashraf.

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