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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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Sergio Leone and crew

Some fifty years ago, a relatively unknown Italian filmmaker, Sergio Leone, was egged on by a well-meaning friend to go and see Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo. Leone did so, and immediately recognised the potential for remaking it as a Western. He had his own good reasons. Leone had already been taken in by the success of German Westerns that had been running to packed houses across Europe, and believed that he too could make one. Yojimbo only made his resolve more resolute. Leone first approached...

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Review: Do Population Policies Matter

Review of Do Population Policies Matter

The politics of fertility control is all about power and control exerted by various stakeholders over individual lives and limited resources. It is about the role of the state in regulating individual behaviour. Its starts with the specification of the rationale for government involvement in policies to alter human behaviour related to reproduction and sexuality. These policies also seek to justify the means adopted by the government to influence fertility behaviour. Anrudh Jain starts of with...

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