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Fazilka, Punjab

Sep 04, 2025

‘I am unable to sell [chhaj] in this heat’

Despite falling demand for handmade baskets, Krishna Rani has held on to her decades long family craft of making chhaj. However, heatwaves in Punjab’s Fazilka district, throw up new challenges to her work

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Author

Sanskriti Talwar

Sanskriti Talwar is an independent journalist based in New Delhi, and a PARI MMF Fellow for 2023.

Editor

Sangeeta Menon

Sangeeta Menon is a Mumbai-based writer, editor and communications consultant.

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Binaifer Bharucha

Binaifer Bharucha is a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, and Photo Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India.