Tag: myqissaa

Amina Bibi – The Kantha Katha

August 6th, 2021 • admin

The award winning Kantha artisan. She was married to a guy who was visually challenged. She used her skills to bring up two boys of whom one has a Govt job and one has joined the army. Empowerment of the artisan!

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Baisali and The Poem

August 5th, 2016 • admin

You look at me, child, and you laugh. You call me old-fashioned,  traditional, simple. Oh, my dear girl, my lovely love, my fire-brand modernista — call me what you will… I am happy to be. But, before you shut these cupboard doors and laughingly dismiss me as impractical exotica, tell me first… what stories do […]

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Gopa Bhattacharjee

August 6th, 2021 • admin

A romantic poet, actor and freelance journalist who loves the first shower of monsoons, 80’s Hindi songs and maachher jhol bhaat cooked by her ma. If you find it uncool, you should relook at it as an option. It can be oomphy. It reveals the midriff, the back, it can be a hipster! We all […]

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Kantha Katha

August 5th, 2020 • admin

Kantha literally means rags. Old sarees stacked together and stitched over with a running stitch. Super soft, mother’s sarees, sarees with all the careworn smells and emotions of a mothers love filters through. Children know surely and instinctitively, their mother’s touch, her breath, her heartbeat. My sister always slept with my ma’s saree clutched in […]

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Revolution to Liberation

August 5th, 2021 • admin

Fashion is sexy, addictive exclusive and fast moving. Sustainability is slowness, care, it is  flourishing responsible. The fashion industry until very recently has not been very sustainable. We are drowning in textiles. Sales have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Do you know that you have 4 times the no of clothes than your […]

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Story Time @Qissaa

August 6th, 2018 • admin

Nivedita dramatises a touching story

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Supreeta Das

August 6th, 2021 • admin

An educator. An optimist with a sense of humour. A fun-loving pragmatist Now stitching pieces of life together If you find it uncool, you should relook at it as an option. It can be oomphy. It reveals the midriff, the back, it can be a hipster! We all have family sarees, nani, dadi sarees. Memories […]

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Sustainable Fashion Insights

August 5th, 2020 • admin

Fashion is sexy, addictive exclusive and fast moving. Sustainability is slowness, care, it is  flourishing responsible. The fashion industry until very recently has not been very sustainable. We are drowning in textiles. Sales have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Do you know that you have 4 times the no of clothes than your […]

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The Art of Spinning – At it – Aarushi Taparia

August 6th, 2021 • admin

The Box Charkha used by Gandhi in prison makes it convenient to spin wherever you are. Spin yarn, up and down, round and about, intuitive movements to stop the yarn from breaking. Therapeutic! Coordinated movements. Start em young

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The Art of Spinning on Charkha

August 6th, 2021 • admin

The Box Charkha used by Gandhi in prison makes it convenient to spin wherever you are. Spin yarn, up and down, round and about, intuitive movements to stop the yarn from breaking. Ruby Rakshit of MGGS demonsttrates this fascinating skill to empower women and bring empowerment! Change!

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