SoCultures October 2018
French heritage initiative is reviving India & France
Chandan Nagar in West Bengal , through crowd funding , we together develop solutions , once developed , it can be transformed into a beautiful property and it can transform your lives as tourists will throng the place to admire , to visit the bygone eras ., to stay in the heritage properties .
We wish to replicate the same model in other parts of India also . We are involving students who we advise to watch , listen , learn and say , “ Oh ! It ’ s a simple model … we can implement everywhere .” Dr Bertrand is very optimistic about several solutions to save our heritage .
Some steps taken in this direction -
o A two-layer contest was conducted for mobilizing students ( 8-12 and 13-16 year-olds ) from eighty schools , raising the awareness of the young public in India . o A collaborative project between Indian and French schools of architecture , involving Chandan Nagar inhabitants , where students work on a case-study to restore one of the city ’ s heritage buildings , the Registry Building ; o A crowd-funding campaign which hopes to trigger many more similar initiatives and lead to the complete restoration of Chandan Nagar , making it a template to be replicated elsewhere in India
http :// www . ifindia . in / know-your-indo-french-heritage Textile Revivals : As textiles are rich with traditions , history and heritage …
“ Lots of traditional skills are vanishing and sadly , some are close to become extinct . The textile always exists with new opportunities with patterns , trends and techniques ; we are also promoting Meghalaya fibre based new fabric called Ramie . The hand-crafted Ramie ( fiber crop used for fabric production ) is crated with Darjeeling rice paper , along with Eri silk yarn from Jharkhand . Ramie was grown for the first time in Meghalaya last year .
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