Kala is one word for the arts and crafts, making no distinction. It unifies all processes and peoples. At the opening of the textile festival ‘Niram Thiram’, Kalakshetra director Priyadarsini Govind says that for Rukmini Devi, song and dance collated with costume, textile, colour and spatial aspects. Conservation likewisetakes myriad forms. Craftsman Sufiyan Khatri who is at the festival, says he prints bedcovers with patterns that once adorned Kutchi pagadis. His father Ismail Khatri has visited The Ashmolean Museum in England to photograph the 11 century Al...
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