Urmila Mohan is an anthropologist who established the Jugaad Project, an open platform for publishing articles on material culture.

Here are some of the topics covered in our conversation:

The meaning of jugaad as everyday innovation

The need for an open global platform to share articles in material culture

How published articles benefit their subjects

Prayer beads as spiritual technology that is only partly replaced by fidget spinners

Articles on bamboo weaving in Java and the infrastructure of Durga Puja in India

The new book publication

https://www.thejugaadproject.pub

http://www.urmilamohan.com/

https://www.thejugaadproject.pub/home/likhai-wood-carving

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