Always fun to see text on textiles, whether woven or embroidered! We met Ram ji Bhai at Kala Raksha. He is an Ikat weaver. Ram ji Bhai was very gracious to invite us to his home, and show us his looms and give us a demonstration. He had one of the most beautiful homes we […]
Category: Travel
Kutch Diaries/Pixel meets Patola
In our hotel lobby in Bhuj, there was a framed business card for a Patola* store in the city. One look at it, and the first thing that came to mind was the pixel portraits Prateek makes. It is a pity that we don’t see traditional motifs like the one in the card make an […]
Kutch Diaries/Lance Alphabet Snack Pellets
On our first evening in Bhuj, we went to a market nearby to drink chai and eat some local snacks. At the chai shop, my eyes wandered to the packaged snacks – one of them was called Lance Alphabet Snack Pellets. Alphabet-shaped munchies for five bucks a packet, I kid you not! Bringing them back […]
Kutch Diaries/Beedis from Bherandiyara
We stopped at a cluster of shops at Bheranderiya on our way to the Rann of Kutch to have some tea and food. We ate some delicious mawa, shady pakoras and almost got attacked by a cow, who seemed to be very attracted by Kassia. At the store where we were eating, I spotted a […]
Amritsar and back!
I am back from a whirlwind one-day trip from Amritsar. The trip was really short and I didn’t click too many pictures, but there is still some lettering I couldn’t resist. Here, then, is an equally short post about those photographs. Golden Temple Inside the premises of the gurudwara, there are engravings of details of […]
