The dream catcher
Age has nothing to do with talent. Tanay Narendra Bothara, a design student, winner of the Asia Young Designer Award 2019, is a perfect example.
by India Today Aspire
Jul 18, 2019
4 minutes
By Spenta Jassawala and Ananya Srivastava
At 23, Tanay Narendra Bothara is unlike most others of his age. He loves to challenge himself and push boundaries. A student of design at Vivekanand Institute of Technology's Padmabhushan Vasatdada Patil College of Architecture, Pune, Bothara has recently won a gold for Nippon's Asia Young Designer Award 2019 under the architectural category. Beating over 8,400 applicants and competing with finalists from 15 countries in the finals, his project Children Uprooted looks at transforming war-ridden spaces in Syria. The theme for this year's award ceremony held in Singapore was Forward: Challenging Design Boundaries.
Bothara is the first Indian to receive
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