The IKKIVI Podcast: Exploring Fashion, Culture and Values · Nivi Murthy

S3E16: The Whimsical World of Paño: A Giant Doll Head Reimagining the World | Sanskriti Sharma

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“I’m a living doll” is her shorthand for Panyo’s escapist world.

Fashion is personal before it is anything else. Sanskriti talks about Panyo as someone already living inside her, not a neat project she invented from scratch. The image is strange in the best way: a big doll head, expressive eyes, and a presence that turns fashion and art into an exit from ordinary life. Still, the conversation stays intimate. Panyo is the little girl, the storyteller, and the inner self Sanskriti protected until she could finally face her. The size of the character matters. Panyo is big, loud, and hard to miss, while Sanskriti describes her as quietly residing inside. That tension gives the episode its pulse. Again and again, she circles the freedom of becoming someone else so she can understand herself more plainly. The host keeps the pace gentle, leaving space for where Panyo came from, how the feeling works, and what it takes to bring her into the world. Sanskriti does not describe a fixed brain map. Ideas hit suddenly and keep moving, so she carries a notebook and pen while traveling or doing other things, waiting for the next detail. Through Panyo, she can face the outside chaos while keeping a private place for story, creativity, and self-recognition. The ending is soft: gratitude, old warmth, and a first podcast conversation that gives her room to speak.

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