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Chitrangada Choudhury

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ARTICLES BY CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY

Anjum Zamarud Habib (left) and Sahba Husain. (Photo courtesy: Uma Chakravarti)

The silence of our friends

4 min read . 06 Mar 2020

“I wonder if the wearers of Kotpad textiles know how hard we work to create these colours,” says Jema Panika, who won a National Award in 2009. She says youngsters have lost interest in learning this painstaking craft, and cheaper chemical dyes have taken over the market. “When we go to cities for exhibitions, buyers tell us, teach your children your skills. But the world is changing and our work is impacted.” Photographs by Chitrangada Choudhury

The dyers of Kotpad

3 min read . 24 Jul 2017

Shirin Ebadi. Photo: Chitrangada Choudhury

Shirin Ebadi: The fight for democracy comes at a price

6 min read . 09 Nov 2016

Author and Delhi University professor of sociology Nandini Sundar at her home in Delhi. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

Nandini Sundar: Militarization of the imagination

7 min read . 10 Oct 2016

Photographs by Chitrangada Choudhury

Photo Essay: My land, your land

6 min read . 21 Nov 2015

Village priest Samantray takes a walk in his homestead with granddaughter Haripriya. Photo: Chitrangada Choudhury

Photo Essay | Defiant in Dhinkia

1 min read . 05 Apr 2013

Nine lakh cutters, nobody’s employees

1 min read . 04 Apr 2007

Cane cutters leave for the fields before dawn and return in the evening with laden carts to join the queue outside the sugar-factory gates

Bitter-sweet reality behind Rs15,000 crore cane windfall

5 min read . 04 Apr 2007

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