The wedding of Rigvedita Deo, daughter of the Mahurkar family, with Raj Ratna Pratap Deo, scion to the royal state of Nagar Untari, Jharkhand, was both grand and traditional. The Maratha royals or the Maratha Confederacy were a conglomerate of…
Nandini Singh, Alkarani Singh and Kamini Singh—of three different royal families—are not just helping and protecting the poor but also providing them with a livelihood by promoting their crafts. The pandemic has left each one of us vulnerable and gripped…
A visit to her studio, workshop and you will be enthralled by the many wooden blocks that fill her roof. It’s an asbestos roof, which is lined with blocks, etched by hand, over a thousand of them. Each one a…
Meenal Kumari Singhdeo, a natural textile revivalist and craft protagonist, has been working with a large community of local artisans since 1990. Blue-blooded Indians have a truly tough mantle to wear. Heirs to a rich legacy, born to the arts…
Urvashi Singh Khimsar is a young, bright noble from the sleepy hamlet of Khimsar, now better known for its ITC resort that is simply Urvashi’s family palace turned into a hotel. While her father and brother look after this…