The traditional Rajasthani fridge: a perfect blend of beauty and efficiency.

Unlike our ancestors, we are not anymore in love with Beauty but with Efficiency…  And ever since we have started worshiping Efficiency in the name of progress and development, ugliness and violence are disfiguring our planet!! (Read ‘Beauty is God Himself’)

A sustainable world is a world in which efficiency and beauty will come together. A sustainable world will be a beautiful world, an aesthetic world, an artistic world.

Remember the formula:

BEAUTY + Efficiency = Sustainability

Let’s take the example of the fridge… the modern fridge versus the traditional fridge…  and see how the above formula applies.

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Earth architecture is beautiful!!

 I was travelling to villages around Bodhgaya in Bihar, a beautiful region carpeted in paddy fields and to break the monotony, groves of date palms… I was visiting the solar electrification project of Karuna Sechen. Solar systems had been installed in the mud houses of landless people. On each thatch roof could be seen a solar panel.

Moving around the villages, I got captured by the beauty… not of the solar panels but of the mud houses… Just like a young man looking at a beautiful woman in bikini wouldn’t resist wanting to caress her soft skin, I couldn’t resist passing my fingers over the golden colour walls… so smooth… so perfect… so beautiful… so sensuous… exquisite life-size handicrafts…

Looking at my expression of wonder, a woman, the owner of the house smiles and says, “Mud houses are beautiful!!”

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