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If you're looking for a sustainable and affordable brand that is gender-neutral, Akul Dua's Project Dor is the one for you!
If you’re looking for a sustainable and affordable brand that is gender-neutral, Akul Dua’s Project Dor is the one for you!
Project Dor aims to improve the lives of a community of migrant women from Bihar and Jharkhand. At the same time, we are trying to revive the traditional art form of tie-and-dye by producing timeless classics that always remain in vogue.
Under the project, our beneficiaries produce a wide range of handcrafted and neo-ethnic products that are made using the art form of tye and dye. Our products include Cotton & Chanderi scarves, Chanderi dupattas, and cotton cushion covers. All these are available in more than 30 designs comprising various colours, styles, and patterns.
You can find them on their website here or on Instagram right here!
The Project began with the twin goals of supporting a community and reviving a dying art form of tie-and-dye. Marginalised women, particularly from Bihar and Jharkhand in this case, are often unable to achieve financial independence and this then links to patriarchy.
We aim to harness the immense potential these women have and couple it with our entrepreneurial actions to create a sustainable impact. This helped them become social entrepreneurs and they are now able to contribute to their families, in more than the stereotypically conventional ways.
Apart from this, our focus was to create a sustainable slow fashion brand with minimum waste generation as the fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries. We wanted to create designs that don’t go out of style, leading to sustainable products. For this, we were helped by the beautiful tie-and-dye techniques of shibori, leheriya, and bandhani.
They were slowly dying out and hence we wanted to revive these ancient art forms in our products. All these are made using a combination of these techniques.
There are several aspects of our business that people love and often share their feedback regarding the same to us. The most important one is our commitment to ensure that our products are environment-friendly.
As we are a zero-waste brand, we convert all our defective pieces into potlis which can be used as an alternative packaging. Apart from this, our products are packed using biodegradable materials like butter paper and brown paper.
Secondly, we offer a wide variety of designs that go with all sorts of outfits and settings. Their high-quality is consistently maintained by having fixed vendors for procuring our raw materials.
Our neo-ethnic products are loved by customers for their unique designs. Further, our products are customer-friendly in the manner that they are customisable to suit the individual needs of our customer. Thus, making our products more attractive to them. They are also gender neutral and suit the needs and demands of all the genders across the spectrum.
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Before expecting the daughter in law to love, respect and accept the new family, it is only fair that the family demonstrates all of these first.
If you are a married Indian woman, one of the first words you hear from your in laws is that you are now a daughter of the house. How true is that statement though? Are daughters in law really treated as daughters or is this only lip service?
A friend recently confided how hurt she felt when she wanted to visit her in-laws along with her husband but was told not to, because the in-laws wanted time alone with their son. Naturally, she was taken aback since she had always been fed this trope – that she was the daughter, not the daughter in law. Why then this sudden keeping at arm’s distance? Would a son in law ever be told not to accompany his wife on her visit to her parents because they wanted quality time with their daughter? That is unimaginable in a patriarchal society.
It is ok to want time alone with the married offspring but how does that meld into the Indian family system, where independent choices are less important than the whole family coming together?
My husband returns home tired after working & travelling. I, like other working women, return home refreshed after enjoying full day at office!
I am a working woman and mother of a 2 year old daughter. People say I am irresponsible and lazy because I have a house-help.
Yes, I’m irresponsible and don’t have any work. Except checking what groceries needs to be refilled and ordering them for home delivery, washing my and my husband’s clothes, drying and folding them, getting the work-wear clothes ironed, keeping clothes in place, cleaning bathrooms and toilets, changing bedsheets, dusting windows occasionally, hand washing my daughter’s soiled clothes in hot water, bathing my daughter twice, feeding my daughter breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Rest other work like cooking and house cleaning done by the house-help and my husband takes care of getting fruits and vegetables from the market every week. So I don’t have any work except those few mentioned earlier.
India has a rich handloom tradition that reflects its diversity of culture, geography, and history. Here are 11 knowledgeable women who promote handloom on insta.
The origin of handloom traces back to the Indus Valley Civilisation where wool and cotton were woven along with the use of natural dyes and embroidered work. From the Mughals to the British, all have left an indelible impression on the hand crafted art of India.
Creating a masterpiece takes hard work and skill, and the fabric depends upon the type of weaves that go into the apparel. The weave also varies depending upon the environment and working conditions of the workers of a particular region.
Dancers assemble! If you're looking for fun and affordable dance and activewear, The Dance Bible by Aditi Kaushiva is the place for you!
Dancers assemble! If you’re looking for fun and affordable dance and activewear, The Dance Bible by Aditi Kaushiva is the place for you!
We believe that movement is a lifestyle – be it dance, yoga or fitness – you gotta keep moving! So, we are on a mission to empower everyone through dance and beyond. The Dance Bible is a one-stop-shop for all dance and movement enthusiasts. We provide high-quality, accessible & affordable activewear, dance clothing, accessories and also management and marketing services for artists.
You can find them on their Instagram handle right here!