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An Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she was a woman.
Life among the Scorpions recounts the deeply fascinating and often tumultuous events that mark thirty years of Jaya Jaitly’s political journey.
From arranging relief for victims of the 1984 Sikh riots, to joining politics under firebrand leader George Fernandes, to becoming the president of Samata Party—a key ...
One of the strongest and best known traditions of weaving in India is situated in Varanasi. It has had a tumultuous history of ups and downs but has steadfastly refused to be obliterated. Many cities have risen and fallen, but Varanasi clings to its title as the oldest living city in the world. The River Ganga flows by, offering a sense of sacredness, continuity and eternal salvation for those whose last rites are performed on its banks. Hundreds of thousands of ...
Crafting Indian Scripts is an innovative exploration of theaesthetics of Indias many vernacular scripts. This vibrant bookdisplays handcrafted collectors pieces offering a unique view ofcreative India through the art of writing.
This book is dedicated to artisans, for whom handwork is worship, creative expression and earnings. It is a collection of random images that give viewers joy at the sight of the simple beauty of hand work. Jaya Jaitly is the Founder-President of the Dastkari Haat Samiti, a nationwide association of craftspeople. She is responsible for the creation of Dilli Haat.
Mapping India’s crafts was a mammoth task that took eleven years. During this period, many new crafts were born, skills rejuvenated and some may have languished and faded away. The nature of crafts production in India is both ephemeral and resilient. India’s crafts journey resembles the progress of a river from the mountains to the ocean, picking up material, depositing some, changes course, disappearing underground to surface somewhere else. Yet, the ...
This book shows the most exquisite contemporary workmanship in weaving, embroidery, stone and metal work, ornaments, paper machh, carpets, woodwork and other crafts. Above all, these reflect the interlinking of nature with village life.
The history of India's crafts is a story of humankind's engagement with nature. Creative hands turned rock into objects of divinity, minerals into lamps to worship them, plants into woven textures to wear and waste materials into beautiful objects of everyday utility. To honour Nature is to honour its creator and to mould object by hand is a mode of worship. The Indian crafts practitioner is therefore the greatest conservationist who craves to live in harmony ...
Biju and his family are weavers in rural Orissa. They create beautiful fabrics to sell in the cities of India and abroad. This is the tale of Biju’s adventures when he accompanies his father to Delhi to sell the saris, and in the process impresses a city boy with his skill. Jaya Jaitly’s fun-filled story is illustrated by Bhramara Nayak in the patachitra style. Each book in this series of four, created by the Dastkari Haat Samiti, looks at the life of a child ...