3.“Reconstruction of Khadi”- Presentation of Work of ‘KORA’ in the area of khadi, In three states of India- Bihar, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh.
Khadi is hand spun, hand woven natural fiber cloth from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The cloth is woven from cotton and may also include silk, or wool, which are all spun into yarn on a spindle called “tekuva” or a kind of spinning wheel called “charkha”. Looking back at more than 250 years back before industrialization the fabric woven in our country is all khadi.
Khadi first caught the imagination of the nation and the world during freedom movement under Mahatma Gandhi who propagated it as not just a fabric, but a way of life. One that is centered around the village, where the practice of khadi would be able to generate livelihood and self –reliance. Khadi was meant to become a supplementary industry to agriculture, a crucial element in a self-sustainable economy
We all need to understand the villages are the soul of India. If we do not wake up now it will be too late later. Rural India has a pool of local power, skills, natural resources and local technologies. The most important thing is be able to look back to our heritage and analyse what is best we have inherited in terms of man power, skills, resources and technology to build links and fill gaps at the grass root level by helping more people earn their livelihood Project “ Reconstruction of Khadi” is an alternative for industrial mode of cotton yarn production aiming at low cost investment local technology involving people, training them in skills to revive cotton Khadi’s past glory by reinterpreting it todays context. This new approach will restore security and dignity to cotton producers and ultimately encourage domestic production and rejuvenate local economies. Cotton Khadi is the only way that link that link Farmers, spinner and weavers and men and youth and also many traditional skills everybody together to make a high value added product that futher encourages domestic production and gradual rise in local economy.
4 Members from KORA Design Collaborative will engaged in the activity and presentation
- Poludas Nagendra Satish
- Y N Durga Prasad
- P Nageswar Rao (Weaver)
- P Prabhavati (Khadi spinner)