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Kondapalli Dancing Dolls
Manthan Awards South Asia 2010
Winner in the e-Culture & Heritage
TEDxBITSGoa - Sudip Dutta
MARKETING THE SKILLED HAND
MINT(WSJ) Interview - Sudip Dutta
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Aporv.com | Bringing art and artisans together | Online Handicrafts
19/08/2012Moved by the plight of thousands of artisans who toil day and night but get meagre amounts in return for the handicrafts they manufacture, Sudip Dutta, an engineer by profession, has set up aporv.com to link artisans with customers. With a passion for Ind...
Cool Ideas : Mint (WSJ) : Aporv.com : Made by Hand, Sold Online. Online Indian Handicrafts
25/07/2012This is the re-publish of the article published by Mint in 2010. So all the data published here are as per 2010. Check the update section (from Aporv) for updates as of 2012. Past life Sudip Dutta, 33, graduated as an engineer in 1999 from the Bi...
Aporv – Empowering Artisans and Promoting Culturally Rich Art Forms via eCommerce
02/05/2012From pottery to ivory crafting and from bamboo to terracotta, the Indian handicraft industry is an extremely diverse and intriguing one. These handicrafts are highly acclaimed throughout the world for their aesthetic appeal and magnificence. Aporv (prono...
Aporv brings authentic art forms to your doorstep
21/12/2011An online portal that takes pride in selling only handmade artefacts, Aporv is a unique creation by Sudip Dutta. With an aim of providing local artisans a global platform, the company has succeeded in making handicrafts accessible to urban consumer. At Apo...
Handicrafts are Now Just a Click Away
27/09/2011A clutch of start-ups are trying to leverage the power of the internet to help India’s unwired artisans reach their products to a global audience. Traditionally reliant on unscrupulous intermediaries to reach their products at fairs and brickand-mortar s...
Crafting a comeback
21/08/2011For Sudip Datta, a graduate from BITS Pilani, getting into the crafts entrepreneurship game was a huge leap in an entirely different direction. After graduating from BITS Pilani, Datta was working in IT sales in a technology firm in the United States. But ...
ET Now - National TV Channel
15/08/2011ET Now Covers Aporv CEO, Sudip Dutta and his story on National TV.
Entrepreneur : Indian Handicrafts Go Online
03/06/2011Sudip Dutta's IT job took him travelling to China, a country known for its rich art and craft heritage like India, which got him thinking. Data from ministry of textiles/ Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts told him that the handicrafts market in Indi...
TEDxBITSGoa : Talk by our founder, Mr. Sudip Dutta
06/02/2011You may also check out the TEDx talk at: http://www.youtube.com/aporvcrafts
INC Magazine - Our First Media Coverage
01/02/2011Our first appearance in media is clearly etched in my mind. For a startup, approaching the media isn't easy. Yet, we did that to garner support for our model which used virtual retailing practices to sell ancient art forms. Predictably, our first round of ...
Aporv wins Manthan Award 2010 South Asia
20/12/2010Our Founder & CEO, Sudip Dutta speaking to Mint about Aporv.com.
Aporv wins Manthan Award 2010 South Asia - e-culture & heritage
18/12/2010Aporv : Knowing the history of a Craft and how an object is created adds to the intrinsic value to the product and leads to a greater appreciation for it. Manthan South Asia Awards 2010: 8 participating countries: Afganisthan, Bang...
Online Bazaar for Artisans
17/11/2010Much 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...
Preserving Indian Handicrafts
15/11/2010Every 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...
Indian Crafts on Net
25/10/2010Apart from its information technology prowess and Bollywood films, India is also widely known for its age-old arts and handicrafts;...
Exquisite Indian art and handicrafts is now just a click away
20/10/2010Aporv.com is an online start up that connects rural artisans to consumers through their E-Commerce portal. The purpose of the website is to provide consumers a better way to buy exquisite handcrafted products. Handicrafts by rural artisans in India refl...
Aporv.com | Made by hand, sold online
18/09/2010Past life Sudip Dutta, 33, graduated as an engineer in 1999 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, and worked in India for six years before moving to the US. After working there for five years with the sales department of a t...
A ‘Hand’ful Of Art: Aporv Online Marketplace
15/09/2010Aporv.com is an online marketplace that gives handcrafted product lovers easy access to a unique collection of ancient, modern as well as contemporary Indian art. Sudip Dutta (founder), talks to us about the challenges in sourcing such artifacts and the to...
Exquisite Indian handicrafts are now just a click away
30/08/2010Indian art and handicraft is widely appreciated all over the the world. Nearly 10 per cent of the 23 million artisans across the country,however abandon the pursuit of traditional craft handed to them over generations every 7-10 years. To save the rich her...
An Online Platform to Preserve Traditional Indian Handicrafts
07/08/2010When Sudip Dutta, an alumnus of my college sent me a mail a month ago informing me of Aporv, a venture he'd launched that revolved around selling Indian handicrafts online, I decided I would take a closer look and inspect how Aporv was truly unique. Sud...
Aporv: Giving rural handicrafts a new dimension
04/08/2010Aporv (www.aporv.com) launched by Sudip Dutta in June,2010 is an online portal that gives handicraft lovers all over the world easy access to a unique collection of ancient, modern as well as contemporary Indian art. Aporv (www.aporv.com) launched by Su...
YourStory : Social Changes with Handicrafts
22/07/2010Handicrafts is the second largest source of employment after agriculture in India. With roughly some 23 million+ artisans this sector is the one that stands to have great social impact on our nation. Sudip Dutta believes that the sector offers some unique...
Aporv.com launched as an ecommerce site for Indian artefacts
21/07/2010Bangalore-based Aporv.com (Aporv, in Sanskrit, means unique) is an ecommerce website which was launched with the objective to bring authentic and unique Indian artefacts directly to the customers across the globe. Launched on June 5, 2010, Aporv.com claims...
Indian Express - An online help for artisans
20/07/2010BANGALORE :In a little town a few kilometres away from Bangalore, a man, well advanced in years and enterprising in every move, works away on a piece of leather. The gentle strokes of his paintbrush are unique as he applies a translucent coat of red pa...
The Sunday Guardian - Get to know the hand that spun your carpet
11/07/2010Every age-old craft holds secrets that have evolved through the generations. Aporv is a website that gives handicraft lovers access to ancient, modern and contemporary Indian art and tells us about how the product was created,its place of origin and histor...
Interview [TC-I Changemaker]: Aporv empowers craftspeople via e-commerce
25/06/2010The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to see other conversatio...
Culture Curry Served Online - Indian Handicrafts
23/06/2010Mumbai: Aporv.com Website creates awareness about country’s hidden crafts while promoting local artisans Looking for rare handicrafts and products that include a slice of Indian history? Started in June, www.aporv.com could help serve your purpose.La...
Interview: Eksochh - Face2Face with Sudip Dutta, Founder of Aporv.com - Indian Handicrafts
23/06/2010Aporv (www.aporv.com) launched by Sudip Dutta in June,2010 is an online portal that gives handicraft lovers all over the world easy access to a unique collection of ancient, modern as well as contemporary Indian art. EkSochh interviewed Sudip about Apor...
Aporv – Bangalore based Startup that sells Handicrafts Online
21/06/2010Aporv(http://www.aporv.com) is an online startup located in Bangalore and connects artisans to end consumers through their E-Commerce portal. Aporv, in Sanskrit, means Unique and the company is trying a unique model in partnership with the Artisan Communit...
Bangalore Startup, Aporv Brings Indian Handicrafts Online
18/06/2010Bangalore Startup, Aporv Brings Indian Handicrafts Online Aporv is an interesting startup that brings hand made handicraft online enabling the artisans to sell to a wider audience. An interesting part about Aporv is that the company doesn’t decides on...
Aporv.com Brings A Collection Of Handcrafted Expressions From India
18/06/2010Aporv.com - Unique Indian Handicrafts, brings an eclectic collection of unique handcrafted expressions from India. Aporv, which means “unique “in Sanskrit, is a spirit to retain traditional Indian art form and at the same time make a Social Impact. Apo...
DNA - Aporv: Marriage of crafts and social responsibility - Indian Handicrafts
14/06/2010Aporv: Marriage of crafts and social responsibility Bangalore: A passion for Indian arts and crafts and a commitment to preserve it had four friends conjure a plan: an online platform that would deliver exquisite handicrafts, wrapped in stories ...