2016, a senior & friend of mine from the Furniture & Interior Design (FID) discipline at NID-A was challenging the way the course was taught and the subject matter it touched upon.

FID was largely oriented towards craftsmanship, building better furniture appropriate to mood and space with perfect materials and processes was the definition of success. In the midst of it, there she was asking why we sit the way we do, why we hold our bodies the way we do.

Challenging an established teaching pedagogy at NID means multiple hour-long juries, having your work dissected and questioned to bits, justifying every last credit point you deserve, and more than upsetting some faculty members.

Not to forget the insecurity, ambiguity and self-doubt that comes with doing something new, the mental exhaustion of constantly learning and bouncing your ideas off others to get feedback, and ever testing and updating your opinions.

It& #39;s 2020 now, and @madhunotmadont has been invited to take a course on Critical thinking for FID.

The achievement that is having your work and thinking included in the curriculum of your alma mater!!