HYDERABAD: After biryani and pearls, if there is one thing Hyderabad is famous for, it is glass bangles. hyderabad: after biryani and pearls, if there is one thing hyderabad is famous for, it is glass ...

There is much cacophony around 54-year-old Ghulam Shabbir’s stall. But he is neither selling fabric nor pakoras: his stall is lined with bangles. Circle- and hexagon-shaped bangles, tied in bundles ...

A big boost awaits the bangle makers of Hyderabad as hundreds of shops lining the renowned Laad Bazaar in the old city will soon be corporatised to facilitate channelling of their ware to upmarket ...

Making glass bangles is often a labour of love. Each bangle passes through the hands of 60 workers before reaching the market for sale. There are more than 39 different processes involved, each ...

HYDERABAD: There was a period when the demand for lac bangles was immense and those who were associated with that profession used to earn huge money. HYDERABAD: There was a period when the demand for ...

FIROZABAD: They sat crouched for hours by a burner, inhaling toxic fumes while their deft fingers picked up and moulded the ends of glittering bangles. No longer, though. Dev Pratap Singh, 23, ...

Sultana Unnisa is a bangle maker in the 400-year-old Charminar area of Hyderabad. She is 24 and has never ventured beyond the old city. Her parents are bangle makers, and she got into bangle making ...

'Hyderabadi bangle's fame, now a circle of shame'. These are on the lines on which activists are planning a campaign to increase consumer awareness about the use of child labour in the making of ...

RUMBEK, SOUTH SUDAN — Africa’s longest-running civil war left South Sudan in ruins when it split from the north in 2011. But the country’s artisans are literally picking up the old shell casings from ...