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08 February 2021
The ongoing Aadi Mahotsav at Delhi’s Dilli Haat that showcases the diversity and variety of Indian tribes, providing a peek into the rich tribal culture of the country, is already a grand success with over 2.9 million people having visited the show as of Sunday (7 February 2021).
One striking aspect of Sunday evening’s programme was a spectacular tribal fashion show that featured designs and clothes handcrafted by tribal master craftsmen and curated by the famous tribal artisan Ruma Devi and the renowned fashion designer Rina Dhaka. The resplendent weaves and fabrics came to life in the crafted designs that reflect the close connection tribals have with nature.
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Linas Phillips walks 1,200 miles from Seattle to the Los Angeles home of director Werner Herzog in the documentary Walking to Werner.
The free spirit Werner Herzog, whose Rescue Dawn is now a considerable success, likes to walk. He has inspired at least two would-be filmmakers to follow in his footsteps. Faithful readers will know that I value Herzog s films beyond all measure, and never tire of telling the famous story of the time he learned his dear friend, the film historian Lotte Eisner, was dying in Paris. Thereupon he set off to walk from Munich to Paris, convinced she would not die before his arrival, and he was quite right.
View: Crafting an Online Presence
Synopsis
Younger organisations are now bringing these modern design-aided crafts to newer markets. But the older NGOs have to wake up to the potential of technology investing in design, creating good websites, going online, getting their delivery channels in order and adopting the gamut of newer cashless payment systems as carrying cash is now a dying phenomenon among the younger buyers.
Through the long months of the lockdown I really missed going to my favourite haunts to pick up handicrafts and handlooms Dilli Haat, Dastkari Haat, the exhibitions by SEWA and the Delhi Crafts Council held twice a year, and all the assorted crafts melas that crowd the winter calendar of Delhi. I began to get withdrawal symptoms. And I despaired for the Indian artisans who were being denied the custom of people like me.
Crafting an Online Presence
An eclectic mind in a peripatetic body!
Through the long months of the lockdown I really missed going to my favourite haunts to pick up handicrafts and handlooms Dilli Haat, Dastkari Haat, the exhibitions by SEWA and the Delhi Crafts Council held twice a year, and all the assorted crafts melas that crowd the winter calendar of Delhi. I began to get withdrawal symptoms. And I despaired for the Indian artisans who were being denied the custom of people like me.
And then I began to notice that the very things I missed buying were popping up on my Facebook page and enticing me on Instagram. One part of me was of course spooked. Big Tech was really keeping tabs on me. It knew what I was craving and sent the right ads my way. I could have then simply screamed about breach of privacy and shunned social media. But why throw out the baby with the bathwater, metaphorically speaking?