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Pashmina: one word, three meanings, and a lab in Srinagar

By Ines Keane Ask three shops what pashmina is and you may hear three answers. A fibre. A blend. A […]

By Isla Quinn Most temples are stacked, stone on stone. Five of these were not. UNESCO says each is carved […]

By Rafe Calder A label can only answer the question it was designed for. The Handloom Mark answers one: was […]

By Ines Keane The first rule of a Madhubani painting, as the sources describe it, is that nothing is left […]

By Porter Lang Pick up a bag of basmati and read the back before the front. The front says long […]

By Isla Quinn Five lakes. One ridge. A palace that took, by one count, nearly four centuries to finish. Udaipur […]

By Rafe Calder Count the curves. Wikipedia says 209. The Bharatpedia article, which reads as a near copy, says 108. […]

By Porter Lang Turn the border over. On a shawl woven the way a seller describes, the back of the […]

By Ines Keane Look into an Aranmula kannadi and the face looking back is reflected from the metal itself. No […]

By Isla Quinn Four thousand people. Or three thousand. Or two thousand. Three sources, three numbers, one fort. It is […]