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From block prints to big dreams: Haryana women weave success

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From block prints to big dreams: Haryana women weave success

In an attic on top of a two-room house, 31-year-old Sundar is block-printing on a five-metre bedsheet with a maroon dye at Rohtak’s Lakhan Majra village in Haryana, which lies around 90 kilometres to the north-west of Delhi. The room, open on three sides with iron mesh, allows gusty and dry summer wind to pass through … Read more

Pune’s Zapurza Museum: Celebrating a collector’s unique journey of art & culture

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Pune’s Zapurza Museum: Celebrating a collector’s unique journey of art & culture

It is a journey that began when people came to pawn family heirlooms at the jewellers. A sixth-generation jeweler, Ajit Gadgil, couldn’t help but admire the artefacts and realise some of these were rare pieces of craftsmanship and needed to be preserved. He found it impossible to melt these priceless pieces for the metal and … Read more