MP’s Jhabua scripts a success story with its traditional tribal dolls

Madhubai and nine other women sit together with a pile of cotton cloths at Badkua [...]

Nirvana through dance: Uma Dogra’s journey through Kathak

In summer of 1977, Uma Dogra, who had returned from a Kathak performance at the [...]

How Kalyan Joshi has made Rajasthan’s 1,000-year-old Phad paintings trendy

In 1982, a 17-year-old Kalyan Joshi arrived at the MS University in Baroda after deciding [...]

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Women artisans help resurrect Karnataka’s Kinnal hand-painted woodcraft

Manjula is busy carving out Rati, the Hindu goddess of love, from poniki (white sander) wood at [...]

‘We need a paying audience to make performing arts self-sustaining’: Odissi dancer Prachi Hota

A 14-year-old girl was extremely nervous ahead of her first full Odissi recital in Delhi. [...]

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Bhujodi: Gujarat village that turned a nomadic tribe’s shawl into a global fashion statement

As the early morning cold winter breeze blows desert sand in Gujarat’s Kutch, weavers of [...]

Visuals of paper maché: Kashmir’s 700-year-old ‘chewed paper’ craft

The first glance at Kashmir’s paper maché flower vases, boxes, trays and other items makes [...]

Sholapith: Bengal’s eco-friendly ivory craft intrinsic to life and death

During rainy seasons, acres and acres of marshlands in West Bengal’s Sundarbans delta area are [...]

How a hobby made Patels the last custodians of Ahmedabad’s Ashavali sarees

Sometime in the late 1930s, a farmer in Ridrol village of Gujarat’s Mansa tehsil thought [...]

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Ode to potters this Diwali: video and pictures of making earthen diyas

Diwali is synonymous with lights and diyas. The little earthen lamps are not just sources [...]