Before competing at the World Cup of shooting in Lima, Peru, the former Olympian Shagun Chowdhary gathered friends for a night of dancing at her family farm.
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
Diamonds across time
Not so long ago, the global library of professional publications on precious stones was replenished with a unique book about rare diamonds and diamond jewelry published by the World Diamond Museum. Alex Popov, the founder and director of the museum told Rough&Polished about how this book came to life, its concept and future projects within the diamond industry.
Your activity in the international diamond industry is full of significant events, including the creation of the Moscow Diamond Exchange, that of the Indian Fund and the World Diamond Mark, the organization of exhibitions, consulting, interest towards laboratory-grown diamonds and jewelry design, the organization of the World Diamond Museum and the publishing business. How did it all start?