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Tambat Ali in Kasba Peth, Pune, Maharashtra, is a 300 year-old community of coppersmiths continuing to practice their traditionalal art of creating copper vessels by hand. Once the caretakers of the Peshwa empire, the tambats migrated from the Konkan regions to settle in Kasba Peth to make cannons…
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Interview with Simon D’Silva
I began doing carpentry when I was just 12 years old. Traditionally, all the men in my family have been boatbuilders. My great-grandfathers also practised this profession. We have been building vallams (traditional wooden boats), houseboats, and other kinds of…
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