Designer Amit Vijaya’s exhibition ‘Threads that Bind’ in Delhi traces the origins of Bengal’s kantha embroidery, showing how worn sarees and fabrics were layered, stitched and preserved as heritage te ...

A Delhi exhibition examines why a craft’s evolution matters as much as its survival ...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget 2024 on February 1 wearing a blue kantha stitch sari. The intricate details on the leaf-pattern sari upheld one of the oldest ...

Born in Kolkata in 1945, Anita’s roots go back to Karnapur village in Khulna. At the age of nine, she was admitted to Patha Bhawan in Santiniketan, where she was introduced to the artistic ethos of ...