Deliberation of Protecting Ecosystem of Handloom Industries
New Delhi | 12 August 2020-Six Yards and 365 days held a successful zoom event on the occasion of National Handloom Day. Ms Sunita Budhiraja, Founder and Chairperson, Six Yards and 365 days had organized the event, which went on for three days (7th August to 9th August) and had a different theme every day.
From a very young age, Ms Sunita Budhiraja has been enthusiastic about handlooms, her interest and passion towards it, led her to start a trustee and social media campaign Six yards and 365 days which aimed at improving the morale and living conditions of the handloom weavers of tradition. Through this Ms Budhiraja has connected with a few associations and people who have been helping the division, offering budgetary help, sorting out raw material, purchasing handloom sarees and stocking them at their own expense even though there are very few buyers.
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The panel pertained of various Padma Shree and National Award winners. The panel for the first day-7th August- consisted of Ms Malini Awasthi, Mr Shribas Chandra Supakar, Mr Saeed ur Rehman, Ms Belaa Sanghvi, Mr Nishant Malhotra. With Banarasee Saree as the theme, the Zoom event went smoothly. The second day, i.e. 8th August, had Odisha Weaves as the theme and the panel constituted of Ms Navika Kumar, Ms Anupriya Mridha, Ms Purvi Patel, Mr Sanjeev Manglani, Ms Neeta Shetkar, Ms Divyavalli Rajaram.
The third and the last day of the event, i.e. 9th August had artists, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats as panellists. Mr Arun Somani, Dr Alka Raghuvanshi, Mr Paroma Banerjee, Ms Indu Halder, Ms Uttama Das made the panel extremely eminent. The theme for the members was Chanderi Sarees.
The three days of the event saw an extensive discussion on how to protect the ecosystem of handloom sarees. As the centre scrapes the Handloom Board and the Handicraft Board, the discussion became the need of the hour.
About Six Yards and 365 Days-
The virtual campaign has not only gathered a lot of momentum but has already crossed 31,000 members, many of whom religiously wear their hand woven sarees with pride, buy hand-woven sarees, have their photographs clicked in the saree almost every day and post it on the Facebook page of this group. And the number is growing. There are more than 500 members who have posted their 100th and 200th and 300th, 365, 500, and 1000 drapes of handloom sarees.
Many of the weaves are today are fading out. Members are from different walks of life – high profile artistes and artists, authors, theatre persons, educationists, entrepreneurs, doctors, NGO workers, communication professionals to housewives, and weavers who come from underpaid came out of their virtual world to a real world. Ms Sunita Budhiraja has been receiving ladies who come to meet her with tears in their eyes and share their grievances, that they were never appreciated by anyone in their family, but after joining this group, they are receiving compliments from the co - members and their self-esteem is coming back. To say it briefly, the saree has become a reason of empowerment and inculcating a sense of pride and self-estee m in women.
About Sunita Budhiraja-
Sunita Budhiraja is a renowned Hindi poet and author with 11 books to her credit. She has authored the biography of Pt. Jasraj titled "Rasraj Pandit Jasraj’. Other works from her pen include "SaatSuron ke Beech" that consists of informal and personal long interviews with legends of Indian music – UstadBismillah Khan, Pt. KishanMaharaj, Pt. Jasraj, Dr M Balamuralikrishna, Pt. Shivkumar Sharma, Pt. BirjuMaharaj and Pt. HariprasadChaurasia along with "PrashnaPaanchali”, "AadhiDhoop", "Anuttar" and "Tees ka Safar" to name a few. She has also edited Coffee Table books about Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh. Her works have been translated in English, Rumanian and Telugu. She initiated this FaceBook campaign – Six Yards and 365 Days in support of handloom sarees and the weaving community. This has taken the shape of a movement now.
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