Process

The Key Maker

The Key Maker

A boat maker works on the seaside in a coastal town, the embroiderer creates her trousseau at home, the basket…
  • ~ April 18, 2011
Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek

Wrinkled brown, sturdy leather, like the cracked parched expanses of the Rann, dotted with multicoloured droplets as if sun tanned…
  • ~ April 7, 2011

Adaptation

Indigo, spices, muslin and ivory – these were the items of luxury exported from India in the ancient times. Considered a noble…
  • ~ April 3, 2011
Sanctum Makers

Sanctum Makers

The Heritage Walk in Ahmedabad starts on a cool morning from the Swaminarayan Temple and takes you around the lanes…
  • ~ March 31, 2011
Painted Songs

Painted Songs

A synesthetic expression…where songs and words dance on canvas, colours and patterns make musical harmonies… The Gond tribal painting is…
  • ~ March 22, 2011
An alternate essential

An alternate essential

It is only in Kutch that bright colours of richly embroidered garments find the company of ample silver jewellery, and…
  • ~ March 11, 2011
Colours, Textures and more…

Colours, Textures and more…

Every craft has a story to tell, a history, a reason for existence… Some craft objects like fabrics and weapons…
  • ~ February 28, 2011
Waking stones

Waking stones

Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, is home of the great fort described as “the pearl in the necklace of the forts of Hind”…
  • ~ February 24, 2011
A craft for another

A craft for another

The stages of evolution of mankind, from the Neolithic age to Iron age and then to the Industrialized age, all…
  • ~ February 11, 2011
Hisaab – Kitaab

Hisaab – Kitaab

On the festival of Diwali, Hindu traders and businessmen worship the goddess of prosperity and start new account keeping books, marking…
  • ~ February 4, 2011
Sketched in Ochre

Sketched in Ochre

Khajuraho, the treasure trove of ancient temples, soaked in the beauty of the ideal human form, moments carved in stone…
  • ~ January 25, 2011
Homegrown….

Homegrown….

Among the north eastern forests of Madhya Pradesh, lies Bandhavgarh National Park, home to fierce tigers and leopards. Where tiger footprints…
  • ~ January 10, 2011
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