Orange Chowk started with a simple frustration, creatives in India weren't being seen for what they truly do.
And over time, something shifted. They stopped seeing it themselves.
Creatives shaped culture once.
They still do. They just stopped believing it.
The ability to make people think, feel, build, remember... it's still theirs. It always was.
We're just here to help them see it again. The proof exists. We just keep bringing it to the creatives.
What pulled us to Studio Lotus is the way it brings seemingly opposite worlds together.
Craft and innovation. Material and meaning. Tradition and contemporary expression.
And that matters, especially now. Because creatives are often told they have to choose. Between looking forward and looking back. Between heritage and relevance. Between process and progress.
What Ambrish and Ankur remind us is that the most interesting work often emerges when those boundaries disappear. When you understand where something comes from deeply enough to imagine where it can go next.
And that's why this conversation matters. Because creatives need to hear from people who have spent years building work that feels contemporary without losing its connection to culture, material, place, and process.
And that's why this feels like the kind of conversation that belongs with Ambrish Arora and Ankur Choksi, at Studio Lotus.
- orange chowk.
We built this because creatives need a room like this.If Studio Lotus believes that too, let's figure out what doing this together looks like.
We want that to be with Ambrish Arora and Ankur Choksi, at Studio Lotus, with a curated room of creatives and designers from the community.
The question on the table: How do you build something contemporary without disconnecting from where it comes from? No stage. No script. Just the room.