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Issue No: 369-370, April-May 2020

India’s traditional crafts revitalised in students’ hands

Therukootu actors entertain the childrenAuroville’s second Endangered Craft Mela took place in February, and it was a lively event. For one week, the Youth Centre was transformed into a hive of activity, with 50 craftspeople sharing their skills and 250 excited children being inducted into the pleasure of making objects with their hands.Observers, such as this roving reporter, were free to wander around the many covered spaces to watch students working with artisans who had come from far and wide for the mela (festival). From the girls learning to crochet bags from banana fibre, to the teens painting fabrics in Kalamkari designs, the sense of exploration and creativity was high. The metalwork forge and the leatherwork tables were crowded with students who appeared to thrive on the sound of constant banging, as they brought a new creation to life. Some children flocked around the large pottery wheel, while others wove baskets, learnt to spin rope, or watched a demonstration of clay...
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Issue No. 369-370, April-May 2020

  • Auroville locked down
  • Deep adaptation and Auroville
  • The energy challenge
  • Planning for a different future
  • The food and farming challenge
  • Out of necessity?
  • Deep adaptation: the Findhorn experience
  • Is the Auroville economy ready for a post-fossil fuel, post-climate crisis era?
  • Corona is here, but where is the Karuna?
  • Restoring the Earth
  • Housing development lacks momentum
  • Home is where the heart is
  • The Annapurna community farm
  • African Pavilion: Bringing the African identity to Auroville
  • India’s traditional crafts revitalised in students’ hands
  • The Auroville Effect
  • Passing: Jayaraman Ramalingam
  • Passing: Roger Harris
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