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Indian Textile Traditions – Ponduru Khadi

Indian Textile Traditions – Ponduru Khadi

Khadi (khaa-dee) is the name given to hand-spun and hand-woven fabric, either cotton, silk or wool. Mahatma Gandhi promoted Khadi as part of his movement for Swadesh (self-sustenance) during the Indian freedom struggle. Ponduru, in the Srikakulam District of the...

Ice Candy Man / Cracking India – Bapsi Sidhwa

Ice Candy Man / Cracking India – Bapsi Sidhwa

 Bapsi Sidhwa captures the turmoil of the Partition of India through the eyes of little Lenny Sethi belonging to a wealthy Parsi family in Lahore. We first meet her when she is four years old, and grow with her, in the discovery of a world changing rapidly around...

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Madhavi Sharma (Konkona Sensharma) covers Page-3 events for the newspaper she works for. As Vinayak Mane (Atul Kulkarni), a journalist on the crime-beat, scathingly puts it, “Who went to which party, who did they arrive with, who did they leave with, what were they...

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