I wonder if you or your children have ever spent any time watching Indian crafts people at work. Maybe if you are from a rural area where handicraft workers are in production then perhaps you will have glimpsed weavers preparing their warps, or you may have seen women sitting in front of their houses doing intricate embroidery. But as many people have left villages to find work in cities it is likely that fewer and fewer people actually see Indian crafts people at work. A c

There are loads of "awareness days" everything from Earth Day to Friendship Day and even a Have a Hug Day. But the one we love the best is on December 3rd, The International Day for Persons with Disabilities, which is today. What we like is that it is an opportunity to talk about disability and make sure that some of the nonsense and myths are aired and people encouraged to think a little differently. So here goes. A friend interviewing a blind woman recently was shocked to

A week or so ago MESH conducted a really happy workshop training seven people from five producer groups in how to take good production photographs and videos using just their mobile phones. We were amazingly lucky to be able to hold the training in Kiran Village, a wonderful centre that provides education, physiotherapy, early intervention strategies and vocational training for people with disabilities. Located about 35 km the Hindu holy city of Varanasi it has a really very

Anyone remember these niwar wooden cots with turned legs, and cool cotton webbing? They are wonderful to sleep on in the summer when...