In this age of web page and multimedia, the traditional palm leaf art is on the verge of extinction. The reason can be attributed to shortage of raw materials and apathetic attitude of the authorities ...

BHADRAK: There was a time when their hand-made mats, carpets, rush mats, door mats and brooms made of date palm leaves were money-spinners. Today, they are finding it difficult to make ends meet.

Vowing to preserve Khmer culture and tradition, a former monk who mastered the skill of inscribing palm leaf manuscripts uses the craft to earn a living. At the young age of 15, Lorth Loeng, who is ...

Not far from the pilgrim town of Puri lies Nayakapatana, a lesser-known crafts village that quietly sustains one of Odisha’s ...

Bhubaneswar, Oct. 28: The tale of Orissa’s rich heritage has often been found on ancient relics of palm leaf engravings. This 2,000-year-old art of etching manuscripts and religious texts on dried ...

Seated under a tent and in front of a simple desk, Ao Congwen effortlessly weaved palm leaves into dragonflies, grasshoppers, frogs and roses, using only a pair of scissors and a fine needle. The ...

John Baby twists and folds a long strip of coconut palm leaf. In a few minutes, he transforms the strip into an elegant grasshopper. He soon makes another and the two grasshoppers look like they are ...

There are around 1000 palm-leaf artists are in Puri, Khurda and Cuttack districts. GI tag will help in protecting the products and its techniques from infringement and will give a special status to ...