By Hand: The Looms that can Lead India
The artisan weaving cotton textiles on the handloom has been unfairly relegated to a peripheral status in the textile industry. Not only does handloom still […]
Articles by Bhoomi Magazine
Where the HAND has EARS
Everything ‘speaks’, and to those who know how to ‘hear’, craft is the powerful embodiment of the mystical life force, wrote Amadou Hampate Ba The […]
Musings on Craft
I saw this non-emphasis of permanence reflected in the tribal’s use of oral tradition (as opposed to written tradition) to pass on culture, mythology and […]
KAMALADEVI – Tireless Promoter of the Crafts
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay is considered single handedly responsible for the great revival of Indian handloom and handicrafts in the post independence era. Jasleen Dhamija, her close […]
Issue 12: Youth – Seeds of Change
Editorial: Seeds of Change and Changeology The state uses its muscle power to quell the thousands of protesters in Koodamkulam; villagers in Omkareshwar had to stand […]
CHANGE yourself – CHANGE the World
The more we learned from nature and built a kind of inner resilience to external circumstances, the more we fell into our natural state – […]
Disciplined Minds
In his hard-hitting book Disciplined Minds, Jeff Schmidt questions our education system which seems to be single mindedly focusing on providing a docile, disciplined workforce to […]
Race to the TOP
To conceive education as a “race” – a competition forcing schools, teachers, and students to contend for some sort of victory—is to poison the inherent […]
Issue 11: Action from the Grassroots
Editorial: Grassroots and the Man-made Web Grassroots action is often thought of as something a few idealistic people do, or something that happens far away in […]