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Gautam Sarabhai (4 March 1917 – 28 August 1995) was an industrialist and businessman from the Sarabhai family of Ahmedabad. Birth [ edit ] Gautam was born to industrialist Seth Ambalal Sarabhai and Sarladevi on 4 March 1917 in Gujarati Jain Business Family.
Jul 29, 2021 · With Gira Sarabhai's demise at age 98, an era has ended for the National Institute of Design (NID), India, losing not only its sole surviving founding parent (Gautam Sarabhai having passed away in 1995), but also a person of many parts: visionary, architect, institution builder, reverent curator of art, crafts and culture, and fierce custodian of family histories and archives.
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The Sarabhai family are a major business family in India belonging to the Shrimal Jain Bania community. [1] [2] Its twentieth century doyen Sheth Ambalal Sarabhai, was a Jain industrialist. He had five daughters and three sons who were involved in the family business as well as the Indian independence movement.
Sep 23, 2021 · Along with her brother Gautam Sarabhai, she founded the Calico Museum of Textiles in 1949, which is widely regarded as having housed the best collection of Indian textiles in the world. Its ...
Gautam Sarabhai and his sister Gira were played a major role in the establishment and early years of NID. Gautam Sarabhai sidestepped the accepted wisdom and conventional method of education . He revived the philosophy of the Bauhaus design movement which was learning by doing.
Gautam Sarabhai sidestepped the accepted wisdom and conventional method of education and revived the philosophy of the Bauhaus design movement which was learning by doing. This unique curriculum and revolutionary educational philosophy remain part of NID to the present day.
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Sep 6, 2023 · Working in the Sarabhai Enterprises, Gautam established new standards and new technologies. Calico became one of the most modern and diversified pacesetters of the Indian cotton industry. It was ...
