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August 2014

The warped state of Handlooms in India

This post was last updated on August 12, 2021 by Preethi Sukumaran I was surprised to read a few days back that Flipkart has signed an MoU with the Indian Textile Ministry to provide an online marketing platform to handloom…

The Sutra of Thread – Part 2

This post was last updated on August 12, 2021 by Preethi Sukumaran One of the reasons the Indian handloom and handicraft sector is so much in the doldrums is because as consumers, we lack knowledge. We do not know our…

The Sutra of thread – part 1

This post was last updated on August 12, 2021 by Preethi Sukumaran Ignorance, in the case of Indian textile crafts is certainly not bliss. As I put together this series on textile crafts and the sustainable fabric tradition of India,…

The sustainable Indian fabric primer

This post was last updated on August 12, 2021 by Preethi Sukumaran The Indian textile sector is the second largest employment generator after agriculture. According to a crafts council of India report, there are 4.3 million people employed directly or…

Dye another day

It almost always comes back to water. On the Krya blog we focus on sustainable urban living. We explore the many different ways in which urban living is stressing the environment and equally the many interesting ways in which we…

The One Person Satyagraha

2001 In 2001, in the first month of my first job, after wading through knee-deep rain water and slush, I boarded a rather random, crowded bus to Motihari, in the Champaran district of Bihar and famously, the birthplace of George…

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