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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Knew How to Buy Well: The Craft Revival Guide to Durability and Quality

The woman who made craft an economic argument, not a sentimental oneKamaladevi Chattopadhyay founded the Crafts Council of India in 1964 not to preserve tradition for its own sake, but because she understood something about quality that the post-independence push toward industrialisation was about to erase: the structural superiority of…

GI Tags in India: What a Geographical Indication Legally Protects and What It Cannot Cover

GI Tags in India: What a Geographical Indication Legally Protects and What It Cannot Cover

What a GI Tag Actually GrantsA geographical indication is a registered signal that a product originates from a specific place and carries qualities tied to that origin. India's Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 governs this. When a GI tag is granted, it gives producers within that…

What Raw Mango Is Really Saying to Indian Women About Clothing, Restraint and Good Taste

What Raw Mango Is Really Saying to Indian Women About Clothing, Restraint and Good Taste

The Quiet That Costs SomethingA Raw Mango sari does not announce itself. That is the point. The weave is dense, the colour sits in the fabric rather than on it, and the border, if there is one, earns its place. You have seen it at literary festivals, at gallery openings,…

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Indian Designers Are Rewriting What Fashion Means and It Goes Far Beyond the Runway

The contract nobody signed but everyone keptFor decades, the measure of an Indian designer was whether the West noticed. A slot at Paris Fashion Week. A feature in Vogue International. A collaboration with a heritage European house. The aspiration was legible and the ladder was clear: start in Delhi or…

The Colours Indian Women Are Told to Avoid and Why Ignoring That Advice Changes Everything

The rule arrives before the woman doesYou didn't choose the rule. It was already in the room when you got there, in your mother's hand steering you away from the mustard yellow kurta, in the tailor who said "madam, this orange will make you look very dark," in the aunty…

The Stepwell Trail Through Madhya Pradesh: A Guide to India's Forgotten Baoli Architecture

Why Madhya Pradesh, and Why NowMost people chasing stepwells head to Rajasthan. Rani ki Vav in Patan gets the UNESCO plaque and the Instagram queue. But Madhya Pradesh has been quietly holding a parallel inventory of baoli architecture, older in some cases, less restored in others, and almost entirely free…

Why Buying Handloom Fabric in India Is a Political Act, Not Just a Fashion Choice

The cloth that embarrassed an empireIn 1921, Gandhi asked Indians to burn imported British mill cloth in public bonfires. This was not symbolism. It was a calculated economic strike: Lancashire's textile mills depended on Indian cotton exported cheaply, processed in England, and sold back to Indians at a profit. The…

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Chanderi meets crochet in Aneeth Arora's latest collection, Forget-Me-Not

Chanderi meets crochet in Aneeth Arora's latest collection, Forget-Me-Not

Designer Aneeth Arora of Pero recently launched her latest Spring/Summer 2023 collection - Forget - Me - Not - says she “instinctively gravitated towards daisies and forget-me-nots, two flowers that symbolise love and romance” for the range that comprises tiered dresses, skirts, coats, jersey tops, and more.

Chanderi saris are having a moment

Chanderi saris are having a moment

As light as a feather and glistening like a water droplet, Chanderi is one of the most loved fabrics In India. Sure to fit in the wardrobes of those who admire and love wearing Indian handloom textiles. Chanderi owes its name to the town of Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh, where…

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Did you know once Aamir Khan gifted a Chanderi saree from Madhya Pradesh worth Rs 25,000 to Kareena Kapoor Khan? – See pics

Did you know once Aamir Khan gifted a Chanderi saree from Madhya Pradesh worth Rs 25,000 to Kareena Kapoor Khan? – See pics

Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan share a great bond and have impressed their fans many times with their chemistry on screen. The actors have worked together in films like, ‘3 idiots’ and ‘Talaash’.

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