The Silent Greenwashing Nobody Wants to Talk About There was a time when buying from a Khadi India store felt like taking a small oath of loyalty to India’s freedom movement — handspun, handwoven, pure, simple, honest. Today, walk into many KVIC-supported stores and flip the tags. Half the “handloom” and “khadi” products now whisper […]
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For most Malayalis, Kuthampully sounds like a sacred name — the land of the legendary kasavu saree, the authentic mundu, the timeless craft passed down through generations. Families drive there during Onam with one mission: “Buy original handloom.” But here’s the blunt truth: Most people aren’t buying handloom. They’re buying lies wrapped in kasavu. Welcome
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The global fashion industry is heading toward a massive reality check. Europe is rewriting the rulebook with something called the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF), and once this becomes the new standard, nobody—absolutely nobody—can hide behind fancy sustainability claims anymore. PEF is not just another certificate, not another “green leaf” badge stuck on a tag, and
Kerala did something genuinely good—something worth clapping for. The state decided that every government school student should receive free uniforms, and instead of outsourcing the work to some giant mill sitting in another state, they turned to Kerala’s own handloom cooperative societies. That part? Perfect. Sensible. Progressive. A win-win. Weavers finally got work. Cooperative societies
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The Indian Luxury Brand Quietly Rewriting Global Fashion — And It Didn’t Come From Europe Introduction In a recent podcast with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Nikhil Kamath, entrepreneur and co-founder of Zerodha, paired a tangaliya shirt with handspun denim trousers from 11.11 / eleven eleven, demonstrating his advocacy of artisan-crafted eco-friendly clothing. The embrace of
Fake Sellers, Plastic Sarees, Poisonous Dyes — And How GI Villages Are Being Destroyed. Click here and read to know what Kerala weavers have to tell to the Kerala Govt: Everyone loves the word handloom these days. But let’s stop pretending: Most people in India are not wearing handloom. They’re wearing glorified plastic labelled as
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For decades, the global fashion industry ran on a single toxic fuel — speed. Speed to design, speed to manufacture, speed to discard. The result? A planet drowning in polyester and poisoned by profit. But history has a strange way of circling back. In 2030, when the European Union’s new Sustainability Rules officially become mandatory
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India’s handloom sector has always been more than just a cottage industry — it is the heartbeat of our heritage, the language of our culture, and the livelihood of millions of skilled artisans. But beneath the glory of Geographical Indication (GI) tags and the polished talk of “heritage preservation,” lies a story of betrayal, exploitation,
The best startup ideas often look invisible. Not because they’re bad — but because they’re ahead. When data doesn’t exist, when the market hasn’t yet awakened, when investors laugh and analysts shrug — that’s when the real pioneers build. Think about it: Airbnb sounded absurd in 2008 (“strangers sleeping in your house?”), Tesla was ridiculed
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🚶♂️(A thought-provoking blog by Save Handloom Foundation) There’s a haunting sound in many Indian weaving villages today — not the rhythmic tak-tak of a loom, but the quiet of looms gathering dust. Because the hands that once kept them alive — the next generation — are leaving. The sons and daughters of master weavers are
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