Ah, the joys of childhood — it’s the simple time in life where all it takes is a cardboard box to make you incredibly excited and entertained for hours on end. And if you throw in a couple of sheets ...

When Karthic Rathinam — then a third-year product design student in Pune — moved out of his hostel into an unfurnished studio apartment, he decided to build his own furniture. “I experimented with ...