It is not just drawing and filling up. So, when my mother made this proposal, the artist in me thought that if I should go for kantha, I have to know about it, get to the root of it,” she explained.

Colombo, March 12 (Daily Mirror) - Minister of Agriculture K.D. Lal Kantha said he decided to make his own speech today instead of the one which was written for him by his Ministry officials.

We are at the Kolkata Centre for Creativity where I am trying to sneak a picture of a block print of cultural icon Begum Akhtar on a blouse. Its wearer, Mamta Varma, runs Bhairavi’s Chikan in ...