A folk artist, an educationist, a Santhali music composer, and a weaver, who wove the Geet Govinda in Odia script on a 52-metre silk scroll, from Odisha, are among 54 nominees for the country’s fourth ...

One afternoon in the village of Nuapatna in Odisha, a group of French textile enthusiasts gather inside a modest home where a loom has pride of place. The weaver is Sarat Kumar Patra, who, mid-weave, ...