Hanaphabi and Saidambi Naik, two middle-aged women from the Kalaghatgi taluk in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, were restless at first to speak in front of a camera. A few whisper-filled moments later, ...

For Anitha N Reddy, a decade of engaging with the Siddi community — a people of African descent who settled in Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra — began with a classmate’s marriage into the community ...

BENGALURU: Nearly a decade ago, city-based art historian Anita N was visiting her friend Girija, a Siddi woman, at the latter’s family home in rural North Karnataka where she was given a quilt woven ...

Chennai: The Varija Art Gallery at DakshinaChitra Museum, Muttukadu, is hosting an exhibition of quilts handcrafted by Siddi women from Karnataka. The Chennai connect is that these quilts were made ...

Art knows no barriers. Hundred-and-fifty quilts that adorn 2,000 sq ft of the recently inaugurated T2 terminal of the Mumbai International Airport Pvt Limited (MIAL) bears testimony to this statement.