Dilli Haat - INA
Rotating craft market where artisans from across India sell handmade goods direct to buyers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dilli Haat in Delhi follows Jaya Jaitly, a champion of India's vanishing handicraft traditions, as she designs a market in the early 1990s to let village artisans sell directly to city buyers, cutting out the middlemen bleeding them dry. It traces the ancient haat model she borrowed, the sixty-two stalls that opened on six reclaimed acres in 1994, and the rotating roster of weavers, carvers and potters from more than two dozen states. Walk the stalls and notice which ones are staffed by the artisans themselves.
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