Evolution of Hyderabad as a Creative Hub for india

1. Evolution of Hyderabad as a Creative Hub for Evolution of Hyderabad as a Creative Hub for india india We’ve all heard the story of Rhythm and Hues, and studio behind the award- winning visuals of Life of Pi, established a studio in Hyderabad where a lot of work was done for the movie. Of course, the studio with many years of Hollywood experience wasn’t wrong in choosing Hyderabad, of all places, for their studio. Over the last decade and continuing in this, Hyderabad has expanded rapidly as a tech hub, the crowning jewel of the South with its pool of talented resource, great location, people that are tapped into global culture and appreciate the digital arts and of course, affordable rent, but that’s a story for a completely different blog.

2. Hyderabad’s potential, however, still remains largely untapped, this is what we aim to change with IACG, by taking creatively potential students under our wing, we aim to train them to meet and go beyond industry expectations, in Hyderabad, across the country and of course, across the world. Hyderabad, however, has attracted a lot of creative studios and companies over the years. Today we have the globally renowned Electronic Arts in the city, famous for a long list of successful video games, including the Battlefield series and the upcoming Mass Effect series with the latest release Andromeda looming on the horizon, pun intended. ChotaBheem from GreenGold Hyderabad is also where Chota Bheem is produced and created, Green Gold Studios based out of Gachibowli, despite what you may think of the series itself, has minted gold with it. Similarly, there are many game studios that crater to the mobile games division. Although Hyderabad lacks a proper AAA studio for games to be developed on dedicated gaming consoles and the PC, it just shows that there is room to grow in this city, and that talent in this city just needs to be tapped. India’s obsession with c India’s obsession with creating engineers!! reating engineers!! Why on earth is India so obsessed with creating Engineers? This is a question that must have popped in your heads a few times. Why only engineers, or doctors, why are people going into various streams, from animation to commerce, law or even social work frowned upon?

3. There are various reasons for this to happen, to put it bluntly, the generation of parents right now grew up in a time where being an Engineer meant a comfortable upper middle class life, which ensured a comfortable living for themselves and their families. This is also the generation that believed in raising families as the only way to be responsible in life, hence the word ‘settled’ is only used when a person gets married and starts a family, as if that is their only goal in life. Life is an adventure, an adventure created by those who aren’t just in engineering fields. There are various fields which a student can take up in their life time, but the cornerstone of people enjoying what they do is to enjoy what they do. The problem here, then, lies in the fact that many students of the current generation lack the agency to make their own choice, that is to say, the choice of their field of study is made for them by their parents, who have notions developed in a bygone era. Today, engineers are dime a dozen. Some engineers chase their dreams and get into more creative fields of work, like programming as a freelancer or going into development work for animated worlds where they create what they envision, but our education system has caused nearly a million new engineers to just study to pass their subjects instead of learning their subject, leading to many unemployable engineers willing to do a job for the lowest pay because they know if they don’t take up the job, someone else in a similar position will replace them like a cog in the machine. This is not the life we want for our children, where the competition is so fierce and there are legions upon legions of engineers who are unemployable willing to do jobs at the lowest level for negligible pay. The age of engineering ensuring you live a comfortable middle class life is fast disappearing, and we can only hope when the current generation of youth become parents themselves, they realize the folly of the generation before them and fix this. India is obsessed with engineers because of notions that don’t exist anymore, and it is harming the youth of this country.