Two lovers and butter tea

Gaatha project was originally conjured only for researching and documenting the rapid erosion of Indian craft clusters and heritage. However, we soon learnt from the artisans themselves that need was not to do research alone, but to restore ‘pride and serious commercial opportunity’ in their ecosystem. Today Gaatha thus aims to bring the lost respect and wealth back to these beautiful and aesthetically rich Indian handicraft clusters. These researches are important because just like Industrial goods sell on ‘features’, crafts sell on the processes / stories / heritage that go into making them.

We should give crafts a fair chance, someone is right now merrily making something for us, singing a folk song, in a humble house, deep inside India.

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Two lovers and butter tea

May 31, 2016

He loved her. She right back at him. They lived in the hills amidst vast expanses of empty lands. Their love seemed to be born of the landscape. Man, a tribal soul had fought and killed for what he called his own today. The princess’ father was a blind man. And as he groped his way about, the prince got killed. A pyre flamed up, the agony of love drew her into the pyre and they both rose up to the heavens. Their premature departure wasn’t quite; they returned. The princess set herself with the tea plant as leaves while the prince turned white as salt. And ever since, butter tea is brewed in Ladakh. The prince meets the princess now on a different sort of pyre.

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pinkie
September 8, 2016
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One of the utmost reason to have tea in the cold mountains. Something which leaves you wanting to know more. What happened did they meet. The sadness dampens and you stretch your arm and drown down the dampness and see life for what it is -a reminder that things are are not what they seem but what you make of it ! I want to be free, chuffing and puffing life away has no meaning. Lets travel travel, marvel at the dew, the tear drop and laugh at the grass tickling you or run with the butterfly -can you ? It’s because the child in us has died.