Just as the bus screeches to a halt at the Mekalamaradi Cross near Gokak at day break, a group of women is seen briskly walking to a building without a board. It is an old godown with some work sheds.
As many as 40 women sit on the floor, cleaning jute, grass and cotton pieces, boiling them to separate the fibre, weaving and knitting pieces and stitching them together. These are a few illiterate women from a remote village in the State who have built an internationally respected brand of women’s accessories.
