The city of Mathura calls devotion through what is made, handled, stitched, and sold. It hangs in small shops as brightly coloured poshaks, rests in the careful symmetry of jhulas, and takes shape in...
Recently, FMC organized a student exposure visit for members of the Environmental Society at St. Stephen's College, DU to Panipat. The visit took students beyond textbooks and theoretical...
Bhojpur is a small town in the western part of Uttar Pradesh. As a part of the EU ‘Green Threads’ Project, I visited this semi-urban cluster, a town producing new bedsheets, mats, mattress...
Amid Vidisha’s handloom cluster, resilient women weave heritage and hope, balancing craft and family despite remoteness and limited markets—guardians of tradition, dignity, and dreams stitched...
For generations, North Indian homes depended on the comforting weight of handmade razais. When lighter, modern mink blankets entered the market, the shift felt practical—less storage space, quicker...
In the lanes of Soro, Odisha, stone comes alive under the hands of skilled artisans. Generations of carvers transform pink and white stone into statues, lamps, and figurines, each piece carrying...
In the quiet sway of Ri-Bhoi’s bamboo groves, strength doesn’t roar—it whispers. It’s in the calloused hands of farmers who speak the language of shoots and stems, in the creak of towering...
In the heart of Assam, women weavers of Dhemaji and Lakhimpur transform threads into resilience, weaving not just fabrics but...
Walking through the quiet lanes of Maniabandh in Cuttack district, I was struck not by the sound of the looms though they are always humming but by something quieter, more powerful: the expression on...
India faces significant challenges in its poverty hotspots, areas characterized by extreme poverty and lack of industrialization....
