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Jaipur’s design community is standing strong
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April 10, 2021 09:50 IST
Despite tourism drying up, the Pink City’s creative entrepreneurs are weathering the pandemic, pivoting where required, giving back to their artisans, and showing solidarity
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Despite tourism drying up, the Pink City’s creative entrepreneurs are weathering the pandemic, pivoting where required, giving back to their artisans, and showing solidarity
Jaipur is a contradiction of sorts. Its beautiful forts and palaces are contrasted by crowded urban sprawls. It is the production centre for intricate embroidery and prints that’s used by some of the world’s most luxurious brands, but the city has few big local brands to boast of. “Though Jaipur has been a centre for various aesthetic activities through the centuries, the average lay person doesn’t belong to the cognoscenti. In fact, the cognoscenti is very small here,” says art curator and founder of arts organisa