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How your phone can give India's small artisans a marketplace beyond their towns
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How your phone can give India's small artisans a marketplace beyond their towns

So here's the thing - technology has completely transformed how Indian artisans reach customers, stretching the traditional bazaar far beyond physical town limits. Take Pabiben Rabari from Kutch, who took a traditional embroidery technique and turned it into the Pabi Bag, launching an online platform in 2015 that now supports over 300 women artisans. And it's not just individual stories - entire towns like Khurja, famous for pottery for 600 years, have discovered that customers no longer need to travel there to buy their ceramics and tableware. What's beautiful about this shift is that the artisan no longer waits for customers to arrive - instead, someone thousands of kilometres away can discover their work online, pay digitally, and have it delivered home.
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