As you read this, two clay artists — Dinesh Mondal and Naresh Das — from Manmathanagar village in West Bengal would have begun the second half of their 40-hour train journey from Kolkata to Mumbai.

Hundreds of golu dolls stand in neatly-arranged rows inside a godown at Selvapuram. At a corner, three men are busy packing a few in cartons lined with hay and old newspapers. S Saravana Kumar takes ...

Revitalize contemporary spaces using Aadim’s handcrafted ceramics and organic jewellery. Designer Chandra Manik transforms ...

Clay, terracotta, wood, shellac, dokra, jute, cloth — know about the various types of dolls in Bengal on World Doll Day Dolls made with jute, shellac and terracotta. If you are a millennial and have ...

Xiang Chenxi, a 27-year-old woman with progressive muscular dystrophy, makes a clay doll at the workbench in her home in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. [Photo provided to China Daily] There are different ...

The hinterlands of India are a treasure trove of craft and stories, and West Bengal is no exception. In the Sunderbans, shrouded in mystery and folklore, stories of Bonbibi — the guardian spirit of ...

“Making dolls has been my lifelong pursuit. I always dreamed of going to the Portland School of Art [now Maine College of Art], but back in the 1970s, the logical choice was to get an office job. I ...