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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By Design: Sustaining Culture in Local Environments Issue #004, Winter, 2020 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Many of the contributors […]
Most urban Indians would refer to Fabindia as an iconic Indian retail brand with stores all over the country. The popular perception is that Fabindia sells cotton and silk garments and accessories at good value. Most college students head to a Fabindia store to pick up cotton kurtas, or tunics as the trendy new cuts […]
The telling of the Fabindia Story by Radhika Singh. I was born in Delhi and have lived in the city most of my life. My parents relocated from Lahore in 1947 and rebuilt their lives in Delhi along with many other Punjabi families after Partition. John Bissell (the founder of Fabindia) married Bimla Nanda who […]
It has been such a long journey, and yet a journey that has only just begun. The August Business Meet in Chennai provided an overview of CCI’s first incursion into what should perhaps have been its foundation: what it takes to make the case for sustainable livelihoods through heritage crafts. We can look back on […]
For PUTTING IDEAS FIRST XII, a monthly discussion series on crafts, aesthetics, sustainable livelihoods and advocacy Dr. Ajit Kanitkar gave a talk on the Credit Flow to the Handloom Sector: Appraisal of the Current Scenario on Tuesday, 27th June, 2006 at India International Centre. The talk was based on an exploratory study was funded by […]
World leaders clash over international trade rules and regulations during the latest round of World Trade Organization trade talks. Policy analysts debate the pros and cons of trade and aid as means for less developed countries to find ways out of poverty. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly a factor in social marketing and investment […]
Why are craftspeople absent in the country’s trade policy space? I was asked this question while working on a report that analyses in some detail the effects of trade and globalisation on ‘human development’ in South East Asian countries. The report discusses at length how the lives of food growers, fisher folk, textile and garment […]
As the first article of the year, this was to have been a positive one – focusing on headway that had been made by the government in tackling some of the problems faced by craftspeople. Progress could be measured either by measuring outcomes – in this case, the living standards of the target populations – […]