Covid-19 patients gasping for breath as oxygen shortage cripples hospitals. Supply chain to blame
Covid-19 patients gasping for breath as oxygen shortage cripples hospitals. Supply chain to blame
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Pandemic has made craftspeople go digital: Iti Tyagi, Founder, Craft Village
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This year’s event is significant as the pandemic has wiped out the livelihoods of artisans and they have great hopes the event will help them earn some money, Tyagi tells Varuni Khosla in an interview.
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Iti Tyagi, the founder of Craft Village, a Delhi-based social organisation that trains and promotes craftsmen and iconic craft heritage, has been helping artisans to directly supply craft items to businesses around the world. She also organises the annual India Craft Week. This year’s event is significant as the pandemic has wiped out the livelihoods of artisans and they have great hopes the event will help them earn some money, Tyagi tells Varuni Khosla in an interview. Edited excerpts:
Do dogs dream? Can there be a graveyard for books? Is the urge to kill someone brutal? These are some of the ideas that Nasir Abbas Nayyar has put across in his latest collection of short stories Aik Zamana Khatm Hua Hai [An Era Has Ended].
This is his fourth collection and it has to be said, with a great deal of certitude, that the writer who a little more than a decade ago shot to literary fame as a critic, and is inarguably the most influential critic of his generation is going from strength to strength in fiction writing. His strength stems from multiple sources; scholarliness, creativity and a fertile mind are just three of them.