Category: Legacy
The Charkha, the wheel of life
July 28th, 2020 • Vibha Mitra
The Khadi Spirit
August 5th, 2021 • admin
The Khadi Spirit – A way of life Khadi the handmade handspun textile owes its revival to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. He was the one who saw its potential as a tool to being self-reliant, independent and bringing villages back to life. In his words: ‘The spinning wheel represents to me the hope of […]
Read more →The Right Way
August 5th, 2021 • admin
I grew up an idealist and critical of the Mahatma. His attitude towards Kasturba and son piqued me. His Experiments with truth with Manu and Abha riled me. I read somewhere that it cost a fortune to keep him living in poverty, I felt he favoured Nehru and negotiated an unfair deal for our Independence. […]
Read more →The Romance of the Kanjeevaram
August 5th, 2021 • admin
Venkatesh Narasimhan the MD of Cooptex and his team, came to Kolkata with a trunk full of sarees. “Vintage kanjivarams and handwovens”! Silks, cottons. South sarees in general. We worked hard in conjunction. I became a facilitator. A very dear friend Rachna Ashok had spoken of Venkatesh sir and how her repository of sarees and knowledge had grown […]
Read more →The Story of Khadi
August 6th, 2021 • adminIt began with Khadi demanding Swadeshi to restore the Indian traditions to become self reliant. Arup Rakshit of MGGS Sutrakara working at the grassroots with farmers talks of the How Why Where When of desi cotton The Charkha, the wheel of life turns and the spindles draw out the thread from bolls of cotton. Up […]
Read more →Tribal Weaves
September 24th, 2020 • Vibha Mitra
Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples. Ethnographic art, or, controversially, primitive art, is often ceremonial or religious in nature. India has always been known as the…
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