2023 / Monsoon Sem / Re-imagining the Vernacular TOI-4

Harshi Mehta

Lessons of Trade Unveiled

Jay Thakkar (Tutor)

Kamna Vyas (Teaching Associate)

Pahadi Bazaar, a game set in HImachali markets, an environment where players blind bid for the raw materials they need to satisfy their customers. Blind bidding requires each player to stake a number of coins they are willing to risk for attaining the material, and the player who risks the most wins the material. The game teaches players to think cleverly and consider the profit they could achieve from the customer as well. This simple game set in the market teaches the basic rules of the market from a very fundamental perspective.

An Introduction to the Game


Digital Components of the Game


Physical Components of the Game


Setup of the Game


Thematic Booklet about Himachal Pradesh.


Rule Book for the game supplemented with concept sketches


Drawing Information about Himachal Pradesh.


Drawing Information about crafts of Gujarat


A board game designed in group on Cept Foundation Programme


Narrating a peer's story through a Pattachitra Storyboard.