Javed Sayyed’s handcrafted, GI-tagged Channapatna toys

December 29, 2021

Channapatna in Karnataka is also fondly called Gombegala Ooru, or a city of toys. Nearly 35% of Channapatna population is...

Despite the odds, Suraj Narayan Titanwala has kept alive his family occupation of Bagru block printing

December 22, 2021

Bagru is a traditional printing and dyeing technique practised by the ‘chippa’ community in a remote town of Rajasthan. Suraj...

From a domestic worker to Padma Shri awardee — here’s how Bihar’s Dulari Devi painted success

November 10, 2021

Bihar’s Dulaari Devi has been awarded with Padma Shri for her contributions to the Mithila folk art. But the intricate...

In Photos: On Chhath Puja, devotees offer Sandhya Arghya in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

November 10, 2021

Bright diyas, fruits and vegetables, mandaps made of sugarcanes, coconuts tied in sacred thread, vermillion faces – devotees in the...

The aalta patra makers of Bihar seek help to keep the age-old Chhath Puja tradition alive

November 10, 2021

Chhath Puja is being observed with great devotion and love by hundreds of thousands of people in north India. As...

Diwali Special: Meet artist Amal Majhi whose clay diyas are a work of love

November 2, 2021

Craftsperson Amal Majhi from Satna, Madhya Pradesh spent his childhood fashioning animals and birds with the mud in his village....

Handcrafting furniture and fulfilling dreams

September 22, 2021

Gaon Connection’s campaign called Hands of India, supported by Flipkart, the e-commerce company, presents stories of creators, sellers and customers....

Gond artists in Madhya Pradesh work as daily wagers, vegetable vendors and MGNREGA labourers

June 15, 2021

In the COVID 19 pandemic hundreds of Gond artists in Madhya Pradesh have fallen through the cracks. With nowhere to...

Sohrai Art: Where tribal women bring alive peacocks, flowers and lumbering elephants on the mud walls of their homes

May 27, 2021

Sohrai art from Jharkhand got a GI tag last year. The traditional wall mural painting practised by the women folk...

Mud houses are vanishing; Mandana art adorning its walls will too, if not preserved

July 18, 2020

Mandana art form, passed on from mothers to daughters unlike other art forms, is now practiced only by a few....