Fair Trade
Handcrafted & one-of-a-kind each of Anchal’s Throw Quilts is constructed of six layers of vintage cotton saris held together by a traditional Indian kantha stitch and features the hand-stitched name of each artisan.
Product Details
– Made by an Artisan in Ajmer
– 74″x 54″
– Machine wash in cold water & tumble dry low. Remove from dryer promptly.
Every purchase of an Anchal product provides an artisan with a full-time job, health care benefits, design training, and educational workshops.
Shop Anchal Project through this link to support Dining for Women.
$198
– Made by an Anchal Artisan in Ajmer
– 3″x 60″
– Dry Clean
Every purchase of an Anchal product provides an artisan with a full-time job, health care benefits, design training, and educational workshops.
Shop Anchal Project through this link to support Dining for Women.
$120
Books
Non-Fiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By Katherine Boo (Random House, 2014)
From Vacha:
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity: In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.
by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion, 2008)
From Vacha:
Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home. What she doesn’t know is that her stepfather has sold her into prostitution. She ends up in a brothel far across the border in the slums of Calcutta, locked up, beaten, starved, drugged, raped, “torn and bleeding,” until she submits. In beautiful clear prose and free verse that remains true to the child’s viewpoint, first-person, present-tense vignettes fill in Lakshmi’s story.
Films
From Vacha:
After losing her husband to illness, 8-year-old Chuyia (Sarala) is forced to live out the rest of her days in a temple for Hindu widows, communing with 14 other women and a cruel headmistress who agrees to take her in. But it’s through the trials of another widow, a beautiful prostitute named Kalyani (Lisa Ray) who’s being courted by a man from a higher caste (John Abraham), that Chuyia learns the true restrictions of widowhood.
This is a multi-part journey through India’s history. Available for streaming on Amazon Prime.
Music
From Vacha:
He is one of the famous musicians in India. He was born in the year 1967 in Chennai. He is one of the top 25 all-time top selling recording from India. He is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist. He has a huge fan following all over the world and his fans refer to him as the Mozart of Madras. Rehman was the recipient of the Mauritius National Award and the Malaysian Award in the year 1995.He was also awarded with Padma Bhushan in the year 2010. This great musician was also the recipient of many more awards.
Traditional Music of India by Ali Akbar Khan
From Vacha:
This famous Hindustani classical musician was born in the year 1922. He played a great role in popularizing the classical music all over the world. He was famous for his brilliant compositions and his knowledge of the sarode. This famous musician has played a great role both as a performer and as a teacher. He was nominated for five gammy awards and was awarded as India’s second highest civilian honor, the Padma Vibhushan, in the year 1989. His journey ended and this famous musician died in the year 2009.