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Bhavya - Parvai's Precious Brocades

Bhavya - Parvai's Precious Brocades

Bhavya - Parvai's Precious Brocades

Bhavya - Parvai's Precious Brocades

People - Then & NowIt is not just the weaves that have changed & evolved but also the people that have changed. In the last 50yrs we went from bullock carts to self driven cars. Technology ...

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Artist, Artisan or Day Labourer?

Artist, Artisan or Day Labourer?

Most of us today are no strangers to corporate culture and how people are treated as “resources”. Resource is a very powerful word since the person is valued and hence treated as a key part of the ...

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Karpasi: Parvai's Cotton Weaving Initiative in Kanchipuram

Karpasi: Parvai's Cotton Weaving Initiative in Kanchipuram

Why cotton? Cotton is one of the oldest fabric known to mankind. Early humans have been picking & weaving with cotton since 5000 BC and it certainly has the potential to be cruelty-free, susta...

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In the news

In the news

CNBC TV18 ECONOMY | JANUARY 24, 2022, 06:50 PM ISTSmaller weddings, tighter budgets derail Kanchipuram’s silk industry, eyes now on Budget 2022By Jude Sannith | Jan 28, 2022, 05:18 PM IST (Updated)...

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No work, No business, No food on the table

No work, No business, No food on the table

 Survival and sustenance, like two sides of a coin, are forever the motivating factors that propel the actions of one and all. A cyclic activity, as it may seem but forms the core of our existence....

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Struggles since March 2020

Struggles since March 2020

Food has always been one of the most essential and basic necessities for living beings. Human beings are no different. The availability of food sources, methods of eating, types of food choices, a...

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Vadivelu's fifty-year odyssey in the handloom industry

Vadivelu's fifty-year odyssey in the handloom industry

Eighteen thousand days. That’s how long Vadivelu has been dedicating his life to a craft he loves.  In a workplace set alight by young talent and bustle, Vadivelu, a man of few words, resembles a ...

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Covid Lockdown and the Rainstorm

Covid Lockdown and the Rainstorm

An article in Times of India ‘Lockdown leaves 30,000 silk weavers jobless in Tamil Nadu’, made me think of the “circle of life & Survival of the fittest”. How vital this phenomenon of having th...

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On Saris and Passion With Effie Thomas
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On Saris and Passion With Effie Thomas

Effie Thomas, Founder and Director of the AHC Foundation and The Parvai Shop. Effie Thomas brings a certain crackling energy to the room, or rather, to the virtual meeting. She dons a million-dolla...

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Indian Pride- In homage to Mahatma Gandhi

Indian Pride- In homage to Mahatma Gandhi

In colonial India, who could have imagined that someone would liberate the nation through the khadi cloth. Yesterday India celebrated Gandhi Jayanti to commemorate the birth of Mahatma Gandhi and ...

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