India's 600,000 villages are home to farmers, forest based indegenous people and artisans. In vast and dynamic cities are some three hundred million service economy providers, an industrial labour force, and urban artisans - including the new artisans of information technology. India claims the third largest technical force of engineers and scientists in the world after the United States and Russia. This diversity fosters a huge range of solutions to everyday practcical and social needs. Ojects and places, skills and rituals, are combined in services that meet every conceivable need in every conceivable manner.
Indian consumers appropriate and use products in unique ways, too.
Even products made on assembly line are rendered unique and domesticated during use. NID is also conected to design centres at the celebrated Institutes of Technology in Bombay, Delhi and Guwahati. Last modification Jan. 27.