Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. Touted as the world’s largest slum, Dharavi is home to approximately 1 million people and 15,000 single-room factories. It has the highest population density of 0.34 million per km2. Most of Dharavi’s 55,000 dwellings are 1-room tenements no larger than 100 sq. feet, with very

Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. Savitri was born and raised in Dharavi and lives there with her parents. Touted as the world’s largest slum, Dharavi is home to approximately 1 million people and 15,000 single-room factories. It has the highest population density of 0.34 million per km2. Most of Dharavi’s

Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India.
At 5,000+ years of existence, the Indian saree is considered to be among the oldest form of garment in the world still in existence. With that rich history, the Saree is an institution in itself.

Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India.
Maharashtra’s farmers usually celebrate the festival ‘Pola’ in August, a festival to celebrate, worship and thank their bulls and oxen that labour on their fields round the year.

Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India.  How do our nations handle the millions of tonnes of fabric and garment waste generated every year? Often these garments and textiles go to the landfills or end up in the oceans; their materials and dyes cause pollution of soil, groundwater, seas and oceans along