Crystal Burton's stock room in her house is overflowing with fabrics in all kinds of colours and patterns. "We have skulls, we have owl prints [that] are very popular, any rainbow colours and polka ...

As co-director of Amrita SeRVe, a project of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, an NGO with consultative status to the UN’s ECOSOC, Anju Bist has travelled to the most backward village clusters in 20 ...