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The Fourteenth Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture: Imagining the Future of the Golden Bird’s Warp and Woof by Dr Darlie O. Koshy
Date: 18 April 2024
Venue: Multipurpose Hall, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Muller Marg, New Delhi
Time: 6.30 pm IST
Live streaming
YouTube link: https://youtube.com/live/RQGeWwdVmuA?feature=shareDear Friends,
We are delighted to invite you to the 14th Pupul Jayakar Memorial Lecture – Imagining the Future of the Golden Bird’s Warp and Woof by Dr Darlie O. Koshy, on 18th April, 2023 at IIC at 6.30 pm. There is no registration for the event.
The lecture will also be streamed live on YouTube. The link for it is given below.
https://www.youtube.com/live/5evFxOxnxKQ?si=9ufhrVo1kJYmRPYW
“India enjoyed 25 percent share of the global trade in textiles in the early 18th century” as stated succinctly by Dr Shashi Tharoor in his book ‘An Era of Darkness’.
The long colonial rule under the British Empire effectively destroyed not only the textile trade but the entire Indian textile industry. The company’s own stalwart administrator, Lord William Bentinck wrote that “the bones of the cotton weavers were bleaching the plains of India”!
From such a dire state of the Golden Bird’s warp & woof, visible in post- independent India, to resurrect the lost glory was the arduous task to which Smt. Pupul Jayakar was drawn for nearly five decades since the early 1950s. Her responses included dreaming big, nurturing people and building institutions so that the mission of revival of textile heritage could go forward unabated.
Today, there is an unprecedented strategic opportunity, emerging for Indian Textile and Fashion to move into a new orbit of ‘Sustainability’ for the wellbeing of the planet and people in line with SDG goals.
To make this possible, we need to re-imagine the future of textile-ecosystem for regaining India’s leadership in the sector as the country races to celebrate 100 years of Independence.
Dr Darlie Koshy’s career in Handlooms, Textiles, Fashion and later with Design and Skill Development spanned over 45 years which saw him adorn versatile hats. His tenures as the 5th Director of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, for almost a decade, and three terms as a Board Member of the World Design Organization (WDO)are notable for the transformation of the Institute by bringing in IT, technology and advanced research to design education and later in Skill Education. Before his stint at NID, Dr Koshy was a member of the founding team of NIFT, New Delhi as Professor & Chairperson of Fashion Management. Dr. Darlie Koshy is currently a Strategic Advisor to World Crafts Council-AISBL, and a Mentor for national level skill development initiatives.
Please join us for tea at 6pm.
