This Gandhi Jayanti, Sumita Ghose, Rangsutra's founder, shares how the philosophy of Gandhi has inspired the organisation over the years.

Rangsutra’s experience of the past 16 years despite ups and downs, shows that handloom weaving can be a source of regular well paid employment and livelihood for rural Indiansin the...

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"The idea of rangSutra came to me while on a sabbatical in 2002. Writing a paper on the kind of...

Sanju (age 27), Rubia (age 28), Maina (age 26) and Jaiambe (age 26) are our four new tracing artisans at the Rangsutra Ridmalsar centre in Bikaner. Early March this year,...

They could be known as 'The Gang of 5’: the five sisters of Barmer.   Confident, hardworking, determined, energetic and enterprising. Meena, Nabhu, Moru, Havita and Suki are like any other...

As we drove out of our hotel in Ranchi towards Ramgarh, and then onward to Gola and Rakua Gram Panchayat, we could see large clusters of Bamboo growing on either...

The deserts of Rajasthan have been home to the nomadic pastoralist community that engages in sheep breeding, washing and spinning of wool from Chokla sheep. Traditionally, hundreds of nomadic families...

Our weaving center in Sanchor, Rajasthan is approximately 135 km from the Barmer railway  station.  The center currently employs 15 men, and is managed by Swaruparam ji, a first-generation  weaver...