Srinagar, India–It was in October that Shaista Bilal, a resident of the old quarters of Srinagar in Kashmir, first heard of a spinning wheel that works by a pedal, to yarn pashmina. The 37-year ...

After the national Mission Solar Charkha project, one Indian state is training female cotton spinners to use solar-powered wheels. As a traditional cotton spinner working from home in her village in ...

In typed notes that accompanied Bourke-White’s film when it was sent from India to LIFE’s New York offices in the spring of 1946, the significance of the simple spinning wheel in the photo is ...

If the charkha (spinning wheel) had not posed a visual problem it would still have been on the National Flag.. But Jawaharlal Nehru initiated the debate to replace the charkha (spinning wheel) in the ...

A massive stainless-steel spinning wheel has been installed at Varanasi's Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport to reconnect youth with Mahatma Gandhi's ideals and promote Khadi as part of ...

Applied Gandhi blog reports that e-charkhas (spinning wheels), with their electricity-generating attachments would provide a means of economic independence to spinners in remote places of India.

Desperation brought economic change to India as swiftly as it had come to China--but more than one decade later, and of an entirely different form. In 1991, India was flat broke.

After buying my first 3D printer in 2018 and printing the usual assortment of desk toys, I decided to print my own folding-book charkha, a collapsible version of an Indian spinning wheel.

The Indian spinning wheels for spinning thread appeared around 2,500 years ago. Even the gods of ancient Greek and Rome had wheels of fortune. Read More on The Sun. DISASTER JET FEARS ...