symposium participants

  • The Problem
    Posed by Lalia Tyabji, designer and Chairperson, Dastkar, Delhi

  • RETHINKING HANDLOOM
    Uzramma, senior member, Dastkar Andhra, Hyderabad

  • THREADS OF LIFE
    Maggie Baxter, artist, curator and public art coordinator, Perth, Australia

  • CHOOSING A LIVELIHOOD
    Soumhya Venkatesan, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK

  • IN THE EYE OF THE ARTISAN
    Judy Frater, anthropologist and textile specialist: founder Kala Raksha, Kutch

  • ROUTE TO SELF-RELIANCE
    Carolyn Jongeward, Senior Fellow, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada; interviews Ashok Chatterjee

  • CULTURAL GENOCIDE?
    Krishen Kak, IAS; cultural anthropologist, now working with Gayatri, an NGO for cultural education, Delhi

  • THROUGH HISTORY
    Vijaya Ramaswami, Associate Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

  • MARKET REALITIES
    Jenny Housego, textile historian, Delhi

#523 
March 2003


CELEBRATING CRAFT
a symposium on the state
of handicraft


March 2003

cover design by Akila Seshasayee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • SURVIVING IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD
    Aparna Bhagirathy and Nirmal Sengupta, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

  • SECURING THEIR FUTURE
    L.C. Jain, Gandhian economist, Bangalore

  • NEW PATH
    Jaya Jaitly, President, Dastkari Haat Samiti, Delhi

  • CENSUS
    H.R. Ameta, economist, formerly with NCAER

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Jasleen Dhamija, Sathish Saberwal and Gopal Gandhi

  • FURTHER READING
    Compiled by Jaya Bhattacharji, Dastkar, Delhi 

  • ESSAY
    Vast Sargasso Sea by Susan Visvanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
    The India-Pakistan Conflict by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad and Zia Mian, Princeton University, USA

  • COMMENT
    Received from Richard Falk and David Krieger, Santa Barbara, USA; R. Uma Maheshwari, Hyderabad

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