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Article Category: Cultural, Creative Industry

The GST Regime is Damaging, Not Helping, India’s Crafts Sector

Already struggling to survive and compete with cheaper machine-made goods, the added burden of GST compliance will decimate self-employed artisans. The cost of GST non-compliance is doubled when the formal economy refuses to buy from the local crafts industry. Credit: Meeta Mastani The transition to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was sold as […]

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Indian Cultural Sustainability

Issue #009, 2022                                                                              ISSN: 2581- 9410 Age-old practices of the natural world were not confined to science. Human […]

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Degrees of Endangerment: Presenting a system for grading the viability of traditional crafts

Issue #008, 2021                                                                              ISSN: 2581- 9410 There is no need to underline what a central part traditional craft […]

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Heritage in Development: Art for Livelihood for Rural Development

Issue #008, 2021                                                                              ISSN: 2581- 9410 Culture and Culture-based enterprises Creative, Culture-based sector has steady demand and is […]

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WHEN PARROTS TRANSFORM TO BIKES

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On Islamic Textiles Industry

It is important to highlight the fact that Islam was a tolerant religion, and the subjugated local people were not forced by the victor to change their beliefs, traditions, language or even administrative systems, and thus crafting industries like weaving continued. Hence, we can say that the richness of the Islamic World culture, stems from […]

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ART @ ANANGPUR

The Poetics and Politics of Indian Folk and Tribal Art Issue #005, Summer, 2020                                                                       ISSN: 2581- 9410   Art@Anangpur celebrates the […]

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Art Found Me

The Poetics and Politics of Indian Folk and Tribal Art Issue #005, Summer, 2020                                                                       ISSN: 2581- 9410   Since childhood, I […]

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Art of the Women Painters in Hazaribagh

The Poetics and Politics of Indian Folk and Tribal Art Issue #005, Summer, 2020                                                                       ISSN: 2581- 9410   (Edited by Gustav […]

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Crafting Textiles and Fashion in a Globalised Industry

By Design: Sustaining Culture in Local Environments Issue #004, Winter, 2020                                                                            ISSN: 2581- 9410   Introduction The creation of […]

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