LOKA JOURNAL VOLUME ONE

A magazine of how we live

Available to pre-order now
Loka Loka Magazine Volume One
Loka Loka Magazine Volume One
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Band 1 des Loka Magazine bietet Geschichten zu südasiatischem Design, Heimat, Kultur, Essen und Chai – und verbindet so Tradition mit Innovation.

Es enthält einige großartige Beiträge zur Chai-Kultur sowie Rezeptinspirationen für Ihren Loka Chai Maker.

Die perfekte Lektüre zu einer perfekten Tasse Chai.

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Design und Art Direction: Sijya Gupta
Kreative Leitung: Ross Gunter
Kreative Produktion: Anisha Chana
Editor: Kieran Yates
Schrift: Peridot
Drucken: Naveen Printers, Neu-Delhi
Verfahren: Offsetdruck
Papier: Munken Pure 120 g/m²
Abdeckung: Hardcover mit Blindprägung und Siebdruck auf Recyclingkarton

This is a pre-order. Your product will ship with our next big batch of Chai Makers in around July.

More FAQs are coming soon — but if you’ve got any burning questions in the meantime, our Help Centre has you covered.

Editor’s letter

Drinking tea has been for so long been an excuse to gather, to convene and discuss. We wanted to do all those things while sharing the culture that we love, bringing the chai house to you via photos of cars in Southall to masala dabbas in Bangladesh and beyond.

Making this magazine was an opportunity to showcase some of the boundless creative talent from our communities, and spanning fashion, food and all kinds of fun.Editing Loka has been an exercise in love, and a joyful look at the different ways artists, musicians, writers and designers are growing roots and finding sanctuary. Shomil takes us on a tour around India, Eeshaan gives us a history of the matka, Tara shares her tabla memories with us and each playlist encourages us to dance in every space. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed making it — home is for everyone and drinking chai as we live just makes it feel a little bit more like ours.

Kieran Yates

Aashita Relan
Architect & Visual Artist
@delhicious

Amrit & Mriga
Founders
Norblack Norwhite

Eeshaan Kashyap
Founder, Tablescape

Gaurav Jai Gupta
Textile Artist & Designer
Akaaro

Har1karan
Photographer & Artist

Mohammed Abood / DJ Mocity
DJ & Founder
Boxout.fm

Naz Toorabally
Musician & Zine Maker
Weirdozine

Nishant Mittal
Music Archivist and DJ
Digging in India

Panjabi Hit Squad
DJ/producer Collective

Pooja & Dan
Architects

Shomil Shah
Tattoo Artist, India Ink Archive

Noor Dasmesh Singh
Architect

Priya Khanchandani
Curator & Writer

Tahmina Begum
Journalist & Editor

Tara Joshi
Writer & Editor

Harshit Gupta
Founder & CEO
Madhu Chocolate

Mira Manek
Author & Entrepreneur
Chai by Mira

Pritesh Mody
Founder & Cocktail Developer

Arushi Kathuria
Illustrator & Animator

Bhushitendu Bhatt
Filmmaker & Photographer

Border & Fall
Canadian Centre for Architecture

Cristian Barnett
Photographer

Noopur Choksi
Visual Designer & Illustrator

Shiv Ahuja
Photographer & Musician

V&A

Publishers’ letter

Loka, for us, is about creativity, expression and the art of making beautiful things.

What better way to bring these together than through a magazine that celebrates our cultures, our communities and how we live?

We are proud to be part of a movement of South Asian creatives pushing boundaries across all art forms and industries. Loka Volume 1 is a showcase of these peers, and we are honored to share some of their stories with you in these pages.

A special thank you to Kieran and Sijya, it’s been a joy to make this with you...

Anish & Nikhil