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Wai, Pollachi and Chanderi: What Film Locations Actually Look Like

A film location is a promise the movie makes on the town's behalf, and the town rarely agreed to the terms. Wai looks luminous in the rain sequence. Pollachi looks eternal in the golden-hour wide shot. Chanderi looks like a city that stopped mid-sentence in the fifteenth century. None of…

Times Life · 1h ago

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Knew How to Buy Well: The Craft Revival Guide to Durability and Quality

The woman who made craft an economic argument, not a sentimental oneKamaladevi Chattopadhyay founded the Crafts Council of India in 1964 not to preserve tradition for its own sake, but because she understood something about quality that the post-independence push toward industrialisation was about to erase: the structural superiority of…

Times Life · Sep 19

GI Tags in India: What a Geographical Indication Legally Protects and What It Cannot Cover

What a GI Tag Actually GrantsA geographical indication is a registered signal that a product originates from a specific place and carries qualities tied to that origin. India's Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 governs this. When a GI tag is granted, it gives producers within that…

Times Life · Sep 5

Why Buying Handloom Fabric in India Is a Political Act, Not Just a Fashion Choice

The cloth that embarrassed an empireIn 1921, Gandhi asked Indians to burn imported British mill cloth in public bonfires. This was not symbolism. It was a calculated economic strike: Lancashire's textile mills depended on Indian cotton exported cheaply, processed in England, and sold back to Indians at a profit. The…

Times Life · Jul 19

Chanderi meets crochet in Aneeth Arora's latest collection, Forget-Me-Not

Designer Aneeth Arora of Pero recently launched her latest Spring/Summer 2023 collection - Forget - Me - Not - says she “instinctively gravitated towards daisies and forget-me-nots, two flowers that symbolise love and romance” for the range that comprises tiered dresses, skirts, coats, jersey tops, and more. 

The Hindu · May 3, 2023

Chanderi saris are having a moment

As light as a feather and glistening like a water droplet, Chanderi is one of the most loved fabrics In India. Sure to fit in the wardrobes of those who admire and love wearing Indian handloom textiles. Chanderi owes its name to the town of Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh, where…

The Times of India · Jun 25, 2022

Did you know once Aamir Khan gifted a Chanderi saree from Madhya Pradesh worth Rs 25,000 to Kareena Kapoor Khan? – See pics

Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan share a great bond and have impressed their fans many times with their chemistry on screen. The actors have worked together in films like, ‘3 idiots’ and ‘Talaash’.

The Times of India · Jan 20, 2022