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Digital Prints Now Imitate Block Work as India Reweighs Handmade Value

Digital Prints Now Imitate Block Work as India Reweighs Handmade Value

India's craft sector employs millions of women in home-based work, often paid by the piece and rarely counted in corporate accountability. As machine-made imitations spread, the question of fair pay grows sharper. Katherine Neuman, who runs House of Wandering Silk in Delhi, examines how replication, pricing and storytelling together decide the fortunes of traditional makers.

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Subir Ghosh
Subir Ghosh

Subir Ghosh is a Kolkata-based independent journalist, author and researcher. He has been writing since 1991 on corporate accountability, industrial policy, sustainability, the environment, conflict and cinema, and has written or co-written seven books. This site collects his published work from 1991 onwards.

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Gone with the Seam
Grand Illusion
Gas Wars
Sue the Messenger
Subir Ghosh in Numbers

Subir Ghosh has been a journalist since 1991, writing on corporate accountability, industrial policy, sustainability, the environment, conflict and cinema.

35
years in journalism
7
books written or co-written
4
publications founded and run
2
national awards

Full biography, career record and CV

Commissioned Directly

Subir Ghosh takes on journalism, research, writing and speaking assignments directly.

Journalism
Reported features, investigations, analysis and interviews
Research
Commissioned studies, media content analysis, documents-based investigation
Writing
Ghostwriting, institutional reports, editing, content strategy
Speaking
Talks, panels, moderation, newsroom workshops

Subjects, formats and how commissions work

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Books Reviewed / Mentioned
Rights for All
The Unseen Worker
Sanjoy's Assam
Acting Smart
On a Clear Day You Can See India
Raja Ravi Varma
India through the Western Lens
India in Love
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Larger publishing, design, web and risk projects are delivered by Inscriptions, the consultancy he directs.

Publishing
Contract and custom publishing, from commissioning to press
Design
Editorial design for magazines, reports and books
Digital
Drupal websites built for structured content and scale
Risk
Political risk assessment grounded in on-the-ground reporting

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GST India

An uneasy calm prevails over the usually-bustling textiles hub of Surat. The phrase "uneasy calm" of course could well be a worn-out cliché; but both the unease and the calm here are stark and for real. The calm exists because the strike and simultaneous protests have been called off in the hope that the Goods and Services Tax Council will look into the grievances of the city's traders, as well their cousins elsewhere. The unease, on the other hand, self-perpetuates because the core issues that...

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Review: Rights for All

Review of Rights for All

Anthony Baez was playing football with his brothers one December evening in New York in 1994. The football accidentally hit a parked patrol car. An infuriated police officer grabbed Anthony and held him by the neck, then other officers knelt on his back as he lay down on the ground. Anthony choked to death. It emerged that the officer had a long history of brutality - there were at least 14 prior complaints against him - yet he was still on duty. He was put on trial but acquitted. The tragedy of...

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