Ponduru Khadi still uses the 24-spoke Gandhi charkha and uses a traditional fish-jaw technique in cotton preparation.

Menswear veteran Madhav Agasti says the goal was to prove that Indian textiles can be every bit as refined and luxurious as ...

Under the visionary leadership and guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Khadi and Village Industries sector has ...

In the sesquicentennial year of Mahatma Gandhi, and centennial year of khadi, the fabric is finally breaking free from the weight of its legacy and coming up as the future of fashion Who would have ...

When someone says khadi is a not a fabric but an image, you’d have to agree. The heavy-handed stereotyping of this handspun, handwoven but actually quite light fabric has weighed it down. When someone ...

Mahatma Gandhi – the man who devoted his life to peace and bonhomie – must not have been pleased to see state-run Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) and retailer and apparel brand FabIndia ...

Khadi, the handspun and handwoven textile of resistance and austerity, has had a long and crucial history in India. But it has often run the risk of being viewed as antiquated and detached from ...

As Gandhi Jayanti went by, we explore how this humble fabric created history and is still spinning the wheel in Indian fashion Vidya Balan is often spotted wearing khadi attires (Photo: instagram) ...

Khadi is in need of an image makeover. "You want to go to a party, you will not think of Khadi. Because you think khadi is only a white saree, a white dhoti, at best a white kurta. Maybe a turban or a ...

Fort, in Mumbai, is where the British left their architectural legacy. On the ground floor of one of the many colonial era buildings there resides a store, housing another legacy from their times, ...