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Digital Prints Now Imitate Block Work as India Reweighs Handmade Value

Digital Prints Now Imitate Block Work as India Reweighs Handmade Value

India's craft sector employs millions of women in home-based work, often paid by the piece and rarely counted in corporate accountability. As machine-made imitations spread, the question of fair pay grows sharper. Katherine Neuman, who runs House of Wandering Silk in Delhi, examines how replication, pricing and storytelling together decide the fortunes of traditional makers.

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Add these 10 books on Kashmir to your personal library

Kashmir conflict

Conflict is debilitating, for ordinary people. But conflict studies, on the other hand, can be fascinating. There are as many narratives as there are stakeholders, most in conflict with each other. And the truth does not always lie in the middle as many would like to believe, it often veers towards the victims. I recommend the following books, all non-fiction, for a closer, better understanding of the Kashmir narrative. There are, of course, many other excellent books on Kashmir that are...

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Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?

Atal Behari Vajpayee

Swaraj Kaushal's allegations against the Prime Minister must be taken more seriously than the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary for the Northeast would want one to. With political circles rife with stories that Kaushal had actually been "sacked" or that Kaushal had actually been "removed", the interlocutor for the Indian government decided to go on the offensive. This he did in a first person account which appeared in a New Delhi newspaper on July 25. Whatever might have been the...

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