Year-end encore | Quarterly Issue 4, December 2019

As the decade ends — a decade that has shaped us, and the many good and warm-hearted contributors that TLJ has seen over the last two years — it is an apt time to re-up some pieces. 

Over time, we’ve traversed miles and moments through ideas that have spanned rainbows. We’ve re-collated 22 such stories — a mix reader-favorites over time and those that really understood what TLJ has set out to do — to take stock, remember, revisit. The exercise has been a humbling reminder of growth and gratitude. 

We end 2019 with an encore of everything that has shaped this e-zine. If you’ve been with us through this time, we hope you enjoy going back to some of these nuggets. If you joined us much later, we hope you discover something interesting. 

We wish you go into 2020 with love and purpose.

| Stories, 2016 |
The Sari Project
The Sari Project

The first digital anthology documenting how-to drape India's sari. 

#LookoutFor | The Modesty Movement
#LookoutFor | The Modesty Movement

Covering up is now cool, and here's why.

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Issue 1
12, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
12, Kasturba Gandhi Marg
The Handcrafted Masks of Majuli
The Handcrafted Masks of Majuli

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Issue 2
Blogs, journals, and the new face of retail
Blogs, journals, and the new face of retail

A growing tribe of labels are taking storytelling seriously. Our take.

Guides in a new, old city
Guides in a new, old city

Snapshots from a time when street-side gods and goddesses joined hands to point out paths and pavements.

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Issue 3
A lifelong friendship with crows
A lifelong friendship with crows

A long relationship with crows, that began during mealtimes. 

#36DaysOfVowels
#36DaysOfVowels

Why an illustrator, who usually steers clear of lettering challenges, took up a project to illustrate Tamil and Devnagri vowels. 

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Issue 5
A Sip of Calcutta
A Sip of Calcutta

A quest for chai from a Calcutta childhood, through light winter haze

Shortcuts
Shortcuts

A tempo-tale, by a Huda wala

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Issue 6
Summer in double exposures
Summer in double exposures

Hostile weather conditions, a little chance experiment, and a new direction

Everything that remains 
Everything that remains 

Sometimes, curios are all that remain of a full, precious life

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Issue 11
By the taat
By the taat

An afternoon with weavers from the Mishing community in Assam.

#AamAadmiFashion
#AamAadmiFashion

Sartorial surprises from the streets

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commute stories
Over backwaters and through local markets: Commuting in Chertala
Over backwaters and through local markets: Commuting in Chertala

 

An illustrator looks back at how her commute catalyses comfort

 

So many lives, so many stories
So many lives, so many stories

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everyday design
The Poetics of Idli-Making
The Poetics of Idli-Making

A timeline of fascination and frustrations with the many tools that deliver a breakfast favourite to the table

Ordinary Everyday 
Ordinary Everyday 

From ink-pellets to orange-peeler knives: A meditation on the design of carefully curated found-objects

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daily art
Those wayside pop-neon portraits
Those wayside pop-neon portraits

What sort of beauty do Kolkata’s roadside print-out posters, with faces of many girls and women, depict?

#LookoutFor: The everyday inspiration
#LookoutFor: The everyday inspiration

A host of art projects around the world are showing how to find and sustain creativity and wonder through common sights

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food
Finding my way through a kitchen garden
Finding my way through a kitchen garden

In 2018, going farm-to-table, at home

TLJConnects: Recalling the simplicity of food
TLJConnects: Recalling the simplicity of food

Looking into food’s distinct presence in the memory, and consequently, oeuvre of BohraSisters, the unique stop-motion making duo

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