New Year
2019 ~ has well and truly arrived ! – I leapt
with joy on receing a small packet through courier.
Inside,
it was so neatly hand-written (my name) by a person whom so many of us have
affection and regards – the enthusiastic Prashant Singh !!
In this
e-world where people find time only to send group messages, WA greetings and
the like, this gentleman sent a beautiful card wishing ‘Season’s Greetings’
along with a small beautiful attractive hanging. (immediately it is now hanging
at an important place in our home)
It is
made of ‘papier mache’ - a craft known
by French term Papier-mache (literally paper pulp) known in Jammu & Kashmir
as kar-e-kalamkari, pen case work, after its Iranian name. Papier mache was practiced as a form of
decoration executed on the wooden panels of walls and wooden furniture,
eventually adapted to paper moulds as well.
It is
not simple a piece of art – more so, that of an artisan, as Prashant’s Co – The
India Art Investment Co with tagline ‘preserving
culture, creating livelihoods’
integrates crafts and provides succor for the family of artisans.
Thank
you so much dear Prashant Sirjee for making my day
With regards – S. Sampathkumar
7th Jan 2019.
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