Incidentally, Pithapuram Area Development Authority is fulfilment of Jana Sena president and Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan ...

The decision was made during a meeting of the advisory council, according to a statement from the Cabinet Division. The Ministry of Cultural Affairs will take steps to get boats, along with Jamdani ...

Cultural czarina Malvika Singh speaks to us about the magic of Indian weaves, the untamed elegance of the sari, and its ...

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Suspended threads catch the light, their weaves so fine they seem to hover in midair. Archival records flicker across the ...

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Rather than opting for the predictable polki, Samantha Ruth Prabhu chose pearls to accessorise her look. A statement pendant ...

Crafts Council of India’s textile showcase Tari — the loom, will have 31 designers and weavers from across the country ...

One is a jamdani angrakha woven with the royal coat of arms of Wajid Ali Shah, the last king of Awadh who was exiled to Kolkata in 1856. Likely to have been made in Tanda (near Faizabad ...

points to a gold-and-black cotton sari covered in hand-woven motifs of earrings. “This is a dul [earring in Bengali] jamdani,” she says. “There are only two of them that we know of.