ATMANIRBHARTA: A FIZZER. A BURP.
The National Handloom Day is observed on August 07 annually since 2015, to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement which was launched on this day in 1905 in Calcutta Town Hall to protest against the partition of Bengal by the British government. This year marks the one hundred and fifteen years of the Swadeshi Movement. To revive the Indian economy, the ‘Atmanirbharta’ fizzer was embraced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his May 12 lockdown address to the nation. The textile sector which is finely self-reliant enough has indubiously its roots set deep in the domestic markets. Though we get to see that there’s an increase in the textile and clothing imports by India, the worrying part is the decline in the exports of cotton yarn and cotton fabric. The Wheel That Spun A Direction: A Brief History Charkha , which in English is called as Spinning wheel, is quite ubiquitous and has its essence and inclusion in literature, politics, art and in various areas and cultures in the world. Havin