“If the craze of machinery will increase, a day will come when we will curse ourselves for not being able to use the machine gifted to us.”- M. K. Gandhi. Like any other prediction this prediction scares me and has made me realise that other than using our fingers for scrolling on our mobile phones, ordering food and clothes, we are on the edge of losing the basic knowledge of cultivating and cooking our own food, spinning, dyeing and weaving our own clothes. We have relied on technology that has negatively affected our confidence, self-awareness and happiness in reality. 

My project is to understand self-reliance by making cloth from cotton. This will help me understand Khadi which has been mis-looked just as a cloth, and understand its importance in my development of being more aware. My second objective is to weave indigo coloured convocation scarf for myself and my friends and learn the process and challenges faced during the process. Through this project I want to develop a perspective towards the need for handlooms as a means to sustainability by living and experiencing a lifestyle which is sustainable, interacting with people with the similar ideology and putting the energy into the formation of the future of Dandi studio at IDC School of Design.

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