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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.

Authored by Subir Ghosh
Gas Wars
On the Face of it
Frontier Travails
Gone with the Seam
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

Latest Additions: Archives
Books Reviewed / Mentioned
Gas Wars
Childhood Days
India in Love
6 Billion
Rights for All
On a Clear Day You Can See India
Twisting the Lion's Tail
Cover of 'Vital Signs 1999'
Delivered by Inscriptions

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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Legal notice on Gas Wars is a SLAPP assault on democratic rights

Gas Wars SLAPP

Statement from ToxicsWatch Alliance: In a classic case of commencing a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP), legal notice has been served on the authors, publisher and distributor of the book "Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis" by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Mukesh D Ambani, the Chairman and Managing Director of RIL. This exercise is an assault on democratic rights. SLAPP is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening...

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Review: Childhood Days

Review of Childhood Days

The man never ends to fascinate. Filmmaker, composer, writer, artist - you name one creative-artistic aspect of life, and he would revel in it. If there has been any man in India who has been a one-man institution after Rabindranath Tagore, it has been Satyajit Ray. What went into the making of this genius? Most of what used to be known about India's greatest filmmaker's days prior to the making of his 1955 classic debut venture ( Pather Panchali) particularly about his days as a youngster is...

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Review of 6 Billion

Review: 6 Billion

10 October 1999
Review of Rights for All

Review: Rights for All

8 August 1999
 
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