LILA PRISM lecture "Cotton Cloth As Continuity" a talk by Uzramma at Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road > 7pm to 8:30pm on 21st October 2014

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Time : 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm (Tea at 6.30 pm)  Add to Calendar 21-10-2014 19:00:00 21-10-2014 20:30:00 68 LILA PRISM lecture "Cotton Cloth As Continuity" a talk by Uzramma Event Page : http://goo.gl/XszRkn Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
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Venue : Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
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Event Description : LILA PRISM lecture "Cotton Cloth As Continuity" a talk by Uzramma, Director, Decentralised Cotton Yarns Trust 

Abstract: The Power of the Handloom – India possesses a treasure house of skills and natural advantages in making cotton cloth on the handloom. This gives the country the huge advantage of a world-beating low-energy textile production process in the coming energy-stressed future. It can clothe its own people and increase its share of world textile trade – which from 50-60% in the mid-19th century has declined to less than 5% today. Cotton cultivation and yarn making should be integrated in the textile value chain to give a good living to farmers and weavers. The making of Malkha fabric is an initiative in this direction, based on years of practical and historical research.

Bio of the speaker: Uzramma, born a Hyderabadi, initiated the Dastkar Andhra Trust in 1995 to provide research and marketing services to the cotton handloom industry of Andhra Pradesh, and natural dyeing training to artisan groups. Retiring from Dastkar Andhra in 2005, Uzramma founded the Decentralized Cotton Yarn Trust and the Malkha Marketing Trust, of which she is currently the Director. Recognising the critical issue of yarn to the handloom industry, these organisations took up the challenge to make cotton yarn on a small scale in rural areas, bypassing some energy-intensive and damaging processes, and to market Malkha fabric woven on handlooms from this yarn.

Bio of the chair: Dunu Roy, Director of the Hazards Centre, will chair the lecture and moderate the discussion. For the last three decades, he has been a major activist, agent and initiator around concerns of urbanism, development, technology, engineering and environment.

Chair : Dunu Roy, Director, Hazards Centre

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