Report11 October 2026
A weaving cluster rethinks who gets named on the label
On the ground with the families who set the loom, and the buyers who have started asking about the maker.
By Devika Sen
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Reported and explained: what is happening in India's arts, culture and heritage, and why it matters.
How to read a temple wall: the figures, the stories, the order
A short key to the carved panels you walk past, and what they were built to tell.
Monuments / Classical / Heritage sites
A regional museum reopens with new labels and a quieter layout
Fewer objects, longer captions, a clearer line from the collection to the town around it.
Classical / Museums / Contemporary art
A day with the block printers: wood, water, and mineral clay
Where to go, when to arrive and who to meet, written for people who want to see the work and not only the shop.
Crafts / Folk / Marketplaces
The living courtyards of Sanganer and Bagru: textile ecosystems under the open sky
Beyond the tourist emporiums, how open-air craft clusters maintain natural dyeing ecosystems amidst urban sprawl.
Crafts / Folk / Heritage sites
Preserving the sacred bronze: the lost-wax casting of Swamimalai
How bronze sculptors in a Tamil Nadu town still follow the millennia-old verses of the Shilpa Shastras.
Monuments / Classical / Heritage sites
