Slipping into a pair of thin brown Kolhapuri chappals is like stepping into an age-old tradition. These leather sandals are now the sole cause of a bitter war. It began in 2019, when the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, under the commerce ministry, granted the geographical indication (GI) tag to Kolhapuri chappals manufactured in the districts of Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara and Solapur in Maharashtra and Dharwad, Belagavi,
