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A choker that opens up as a mask, a shield-like social distancing (SD) jacket with pockets that sanitise, a face visor that can collapse and fit into your glares’ case, a UV hanger that will make your clothes safe when you return indoors and lots more in the pipeline. NIFT graduate and co-founder-Craft Village as also a former faculty member at NID, Somesh Singh is on a roll as he spends much of his waking hours researching, designing and prototyping fashionable yet functional gears for a still...

Chances are that as you read thisopening sentence, the t-shirt, dress or shirt brand you are wearing could havebeen designed and manufactured at one of the worldwide units of high-streetsupplier, and manufacturing and sourcing firm PDS Multinational. Spearheaded bythe young and dynamic Pallak Seth (vice-chairman and founder), the HongKong-headquartered $1billion (FY 17-18) group designs and supplies apparel,among other fashion categories, to many of the world's leading brands andretailers. But...

It has been almost twenty years since the five member Shukla Commission submitted its report on the Northeast to the Prime Minister. The high-level commission headed by Planning Commission member SP Shukla, in its 150-page report titled Transforming the Northeast: Tackling Backlogs in Basic Minimum Services and Infrastructural Needs, had surprisingly paid little heed to the textiles sector of the region. The Shukla Commission, tasked to examine the potential of the Northeast, had devoted only...

When he was a child, he did not know from where he would get his first and only meal ofthe day. He lost his father at the tender age of seven. The struggles continuedand after almost 18 years of working as a CAD designer he gave in to a daringthought gnawing his mind - design a machine that could control the fabric bothin reverse and forward while doing the embroidery and with the same tension. Heapproached some Swiss companies. But there was no response. China told him thatwhat he had in mind...