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Aporv : Happy 2011 : Handcraft your new Year

Read what we have been upto in our first 6 months after launch. A little over 6 month after, we have: 1. won the Manthan Awards South Asia 2010 2. Finalist for iDiya 2009 Social Enterprises 3. Visitors from 90+ countries 4. Retail and Corporate orders

Online Bazaar for Artisans

Much like the unique handicrafts he sells, Sudip Dutta is fashioning his ow life with rare strokes. Just last year he was living out an Indian expatriate engineer's dream, handling IT sales at a technology firm in the Silicon Valley for US and Asia Pacific region. Now he spends nearly seven days visiting small villages in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu discovering talented artisans to put in place a supply chain for Aporv, the web site he co-founded to facilitate linkages between Indian artisans and global community.

Preserving Indian Handicrafts

Every craft holds secrets, myths and faiths that have transferred through generations either by the craftspeople or through people related to this field. Travel to the interiors of any state in India and you will find talented people spending all their lives creating beautiful handicrafts, generation after generation. These handicrafts are to die for, but does that make the makers of these rare crafts any richer? No. Exploited to their bones, these artisans are so poor that their next generations are shying away from the age old professions. In an attempt to conserve the art and the artisans a few individuals from got together at started APORV

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