Akshara - Crafting Indian Scripts

AKSHARA: Crafting Indian Scripts.An exhibition of artifacts in art, crafts and textiles commissioned and curated by Dastkari Haat Samiti

It is a major exhibition of artifacts in art, crafts and textiles commissioned and curated by Mrs.Jaya Jaitly. The project has been in making for two years now, covering 13 Indian languages, 58 craftspeople, 21 craft skills which cover 16 States of India. We will be displaying over 100 museum quality artifacts. Akshara is a monumental effort to encourage crafts people to be literate, honor their o

25/04/2020

A global disaster reminds us of the value of our village crafts economy It takes a global health disaster to remind us of the value of crafts production in villages, of things made by hand. Jaya Jaitly on why we should look seriously again at traditional knowledge

25/04/2020

With no sales, the crafts sector, one of the biggest source of employment in rural India, is hit hard Just like migrant workers, artisans are also daily workers, and since all markets are shut, they can neither buy raw material, nor sell finished goods. They don’t even have a safety net like provident fund,” says Delhi-based craft revivalist Laila Tyabji of Dastkar.

05/12/2019

31/10/2019

Art Must Get Off Its High Horse While the state and patrons sponsor contemporary art, traditional artisans are pitied, exploited or patronised, regardless of their expertise or originality