Gira Sarabhai, Designer Who Helped Shape Modern India, Dies at 97
Gira Sarabhai, an architect, designer, curator and historian who helped establish some of the most important design institutions in postcolonial India, giving her a hand in shaping generations of designers, artists and craftspeople, died on July 15 at her home in Ahmedabad, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. She was 97.Her death was confirmed by her nephew Suhrid Sarabhai.As a young woman, Ms. Sarabhai was friends with a who’s […]