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Bowa Devi: The Mithila Painter Who Picked Up a ...
Surbhi Chadha
Bowa Devi was twelve when she picked up a brush and began to paint the mud walls of her village. That same year, she was married. In Jitwarpur, in the...
Bowa Devi: The Mithila Painter Who Picked Up a ...
Surbhi Chadha
Bowa Devi was twelve when she picked up a brush and began to paint the mud walls of her village. That same year, she was married. In Jitwarpur, in the...
Tripti Mukherjee: Keeper of the Old Bengal Craft
Surbhi Chadha
Tripti Mukherjee has spent 37 years teaching kantha embroidery to women in West Bengal. This year, she receives the Padma Shri for it.
Tripti Mukherjee: Keeper of the Old Bengal Craft
Surbhi Chadha
Tripti Mukherjee has spent 37 years teaching kantha embroidery to women in West Bengal. This year, she receives the Padma Shri for it.
Farooq Ahmad Mir: The Hands Behind Kashmir's Mo...
Surbhi Chadha
Farooq Ahmad Mir spent sixty years perfecting Kani shawl weaving in Srinagar before India finally noticed. His Padma Shri tells one story. The machine made fakes still sold under his...
Farooq Ahmad Mir: The Hands Behind Kashmir's Mo...
Surbhi Chadha
Farooq Ahmad Mir spent sixty years perfecting Kani shawl weaving in Srinagar before India finally noticed. His Padma Shri tells one story. The machine made fakes still sold under his...
Ram Gopal Saini, The Scholar Fighting to Save J...
Surbhi Chadha
There's a particular kind of blue that belongs only to Jaipur. Not the sky-blue of tourist brochures, but the deep cobalt that's been fired into quartz for centuries. It's a...
Ram Gopal Saini, The Scholar Fighting to Save J...
Surbhi Chadha
There's a particular kind of blue that belongs only to Jaipur. Not the sky-blue of tourist brochures, but the deep cobalt that's been fired into quartz for centuries. It's a...
Ram Vanji Sutar: The Man Who Sculpted India's M...
Surbhi Chadha
Last December, at 100, Ram Vanji Sutar breathed his last in Noida. Most obituaries led with the same fact: he'd created the Statue of Unity, the world's tallest statue at...
Ram Vanji Sutar: The Man Who Sculpted India's M...
Surbhi Chadha
Last December, at 100, Ram Vanji Sutar breathed his last in Noida. Most obituaries led with the same fact: he'd created the Statue of Unity, the world's tallest statue at...
Baburam Yadav: Six Decades of Hammering Moorada...
Surbhi Chadha
He's 76 now, with hands that move like they're remembering something older than memory itself. In 2024, Baburam Yadav received the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honours, for...
Baburam Yadav: Six Decades of Hammering Moorada...
Surbhi Chadha
He's 76 now, with hands that move like they're remembering something older than memory itself. In 2024, Baburam Yadav received the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian honours, for...
