The Nod

Walking into Ishaan Bharat’s (@0sheen) home-studio in Delhi’s Saket feels a bit like watching a BTS video of a creative person’s Pinterest boards come to life. The space is both practical and theatrical–much like its occupant–and refuses easy categorisation.

Depending on where you encounter the 35 year-old Chandigarh-born creative, they are an architect, drag artist who goes by the name Osheen, aerial performer, visual artist, and founder of the queer performance collective Dragalactiq, as well as of their architecture and visual design studio, Sector Form. The internet would take one look at Bharat’s résumé and classify it as ‘multihyphenate behaviour,’ but the creative professional arrived at this way of living and working long before it became a trendy Instagram bio descriptor.

At the link in bio, @arushi491 chats with the polymath about why choosing one lane was never an option.

Photography and Videography: @piyush_more

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As The Nod turns two, all this month we will feature an impressive array of all-rounders: a brand strategist with an alter ego, a BAFTA-nominated actor dabbling in prog rock, a hustler with more jobs than days in a week, an architect who’s a drag queen, and more.

Join us as we explore ‘The Age of the Poly-Professional’.
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