Tripti Mukherjee, a renowned handicraft artist from Suri in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, who has empowered thousands of ...

The Padma Awards, one of the highest civilian honours of India, are announced every year on the eve of Republic Day. The Awards are given in three categories: Padma Vibhushan for exceptional and ...

Birbhum (West Bengal), Jan 26, 2026: (ANI): On being conferred with the Padma Shri 2026 in the field of art, Kantha Stitch ...

Kantha Stitch Artist Tripti Mukherjee from Birbhum will be conferred with the Padma Shri. She expressed happiness over the ...

It is not always easy to remember these days that the kantha was once a homely piece of cloth embroidered by a woman for a newborn, or her family, a personal, intimate expression of her love, memories ...

There is not a single household in Bangladesh that does not know of the Nakshi Kantha. Every newborn has his own 'Kantha' (quilt) – even if not the 'Nakshi' variant, but one possibly made by a close ...

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Interim Budget 2024 on February 1 wearing a blue kantha stitch sari. The intricate details on the leaf-pattern sari upheld one of the oldest ...

A kantha is a great example of how you can upcycle your old clothes into something beautiful and functional. A handmade quilt, kantha is a long piece of cloth made of old rags - mostly old sarees - ...

It’s almost hypnotic, the effect of looking at the orange cushion cover, embroidered intricately in concentric circles in delicate running kantha stitches. Anais Basu, on her first trip to India, fell ...