Ekonack Creations — where scrap becomes a soul

I'm Ratna Swaroop Dasari. Most people call me Swaroop.

As a child, I never asked for art supplies. I made things from whatever was already in the house, the bits nobody needed, the pieces left behind after something else broke. To everyone else, they were odds and ends. Knick-knacks. Forgotten things.

To me, each one of them was already telling a story.

I would look at a shape and feel something in it. This was something once, and it could become something again. When I made something from it, I felt an energy I could never quite explain. Something that had lost its purpose had been given another life.

I still feel that way. Every fragment around us, every overlooked object, every discarded piece, carries a history, a possibility, a story. Most of it disappears because we stop looking closely enough.

And I believe the same is true of people.

Every one of us is born with possibility. Somewhere along the way, we are told what we are supposed to be, what we are useful for, and what we are not. A lot of what is inside us gets left behind.

My work has always come from one question: what if nothing is truly waste? Not a material. Not a moment. Not a person.

Years ago, that question became a face. I built Knack by hand in my workshop, from forgotten things. A driftwood nose shaped by time. Pieces of metal that once belonged somewhere else. One eye that watches and one eye that dreams. He was the first time my thoughts had a body.

He came from a world I had been carrying since childhood. A planet where humanity is gone, and nature is trying to heal beneath everything we left behind.

In that world, the Mother Planet does the only thing she can. She creates new souls from the discarded remains of the old one.

Knack goes out and gathers. Knick sees what those forgotten things could become.

The world would call them knick-knacks. Things of no use.

But in their world, even forgotten things have souls.

That story is still unfolding, and I know I will be telling it for years to come.

Ekonack is the same belief brought into the real world.

Knick and Knack is where art meets nature. Ekonack is where nature meets technology. They may look different, but they begin with the same idea: everything holds potential, and our work is to recognise it and help bring it to life.

That belief is now becoming an Innovation Hub. A place with no fixed syllabus and no age limit, where people can come to build with their hands, experiment, learn by making, and turn ideas into something real.

A place where creators meet, where curiosity matters more than credentials, and where we teach, guide and mentor people as they build things that did not exist before.

Because I still believe what I believed as a child, holding something the world had thrown away:

Nothing is waste until we stop seeing what it could become.