Street Business
As the sun rises over the Cillika, Lingaraj Behra, along with a hundred other boatmen like him start the daily wait for passengers at Barakula, one...
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Street Business
Boatman on the Chillika
Boatman, fisherman, construction worker…. This entrepreneur at the bottom of the pyramid has to keep changing roles just to keep home fire burning
As the sun rises over the Cillika, Lingaraj Behra, along with a hundred other boatmen like him start the daily wait for passengers at Barakula, one...
As the sun rises over the Cillika, Lingaraj Behra, along with a hundred other boatmen like him start the daily wait for passengers at Barakula, one...
Redefining tribal craft
Dhokra was a dying art even where it had originated. It took just one man like Subhash Arora, an urbanite, to redefine it
If you are a regular visitor to any arts and crafts fair or if you are a connoisseur of traditional arts, chances are that you would have come across grotesque imagery of...
If you are a regular visitor to any arts and crafts fair or if you are a connoisseur of traditional arts, chances are that you would have come across grotesque imagery of...
A fable at the bottom of the pyramid
Those who own their business earn more than those who work for others - and this is true even amongst street-side hawkers
A crowded market; shops of various shapes and sizes, on either side of the street, Â
Magic from waste
Even as he converts waste threads into rugs that adorn the houses of the rich, Haji Qamru-u-deen fights a daily battle to make ends meet
At sixty- five, Haji Qamru-u-deen should probably be thinking of retirement. But that thought has probably never crossed his mind.
Biz skills & language: their bane
Traditional craftsmen have often restricted themselves to creation, while middlemen profit out of their hard work. It is not just access to resources that is stopping our artisans from taking control of their own business
From regal elephants and camels to Lord Buddha, Ganesha and Natraj, there...
From regal elephants and camels to Lord Buddha, Ganesha and Natraj, there...
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