Kalakshetra Foundation
Arts academy for classical dance and music, with a weaving and natural-dye craft centre.
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This guide to the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai begins in September nineteen thirty-seven, with a dancer, a minister and a single loom in a thatched shed. It follows Rukmini Devi into the business of saris, at a time when cheap British cloth was emptying the workshops of local weavers. Old saris borrowed from friends and a struggling dye laboratory are part of the thread. Best heard on the shaded campus paths, near the craft centre.
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