Time, as we will see in this play, works in very interesting ways. In March 1859, Indian peasant farmers (ryots) of Bengal and Bihar unanimously refused to keep being exploited by the British planters ...

Blue is one of nature's rarest colors. Indigo, a dye obtained from the tiny leaves of small parasitic shrubs that are part of the Indigofererearsa tribe, creates the bluest of blues. For almost five ...

Priyadarshinee Guha and Amita Prasad moderated the workshop, which also featured installations on indigo arranged by Weavers All images by Amit Pramanik On February 14, while many celebrated love, the ...

Over the past two decades, textile designer Shelly Jyoti has been studying the natural indigo dye, one of the world’s most ancient dyes, with roots dating back to the second millennium BC, exploring ...

In the late years of the 1850s, two revolts had profound impact on the British rule over the Indian subcontinent. The first of these is the 1857 Uprising — which begun with the uprising by sepoys at ...

The introduction of indigo business in Bengal was made by the British in the late 1700s. By the late nineteenth century, the trade came to a halt. Indigo production and trade was indeed very ...

In a room well beyond the Blue Futures: Reimagining Indigo exhibition at Hampi Art Labs stands a large plastic vat, wrapped in a bright red-and-black tartan blanket. Night temperatures in Vidyanagar, ...