It is usually not an easy task to gather inspiration everyday and keep the process of creating new designs running at the same pace. The MA has been a very intense and rigorous course in itself and has taught me not just a different perspective to art and design but also to follow a schedule. This helps one to achieve what one aims for and work within a framework. 

However a holiday is equally essential to refresh the mind and also observe the surrounding for more inspiring ideas. Taking the concept of connection of cultures forward, I must acknowledge here that besides the similarities in the textile world, there are some more familiar aspects I have observed during my stay here. 

Quintessentially and noticeably the tea culture is a very interesting connect. People here are equally fond of tea as people of India are. Though the style of making it and the nibbles which go along with it might differ. Cakes, flapjacks, scones with jam or margarine and toast with butter, is what I have experienced with a cup of English tea. Whereas a cup of evening tea in India would be accompanied by some salty snacks (namkeen), biscuits or fresh warm pakoras, if its the monsoon time.