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Once Famous For Hand-Made Carpets, Kashmiri Rug Weavers Now Struggling To Survive Each Day

Jigyasa Mishra

Locally known as 'Sheher-e-Khas', the downtown area of Srinagar in Kashmir is a wholesale market for local goods. Around one kilometre from here, is a small workshop of Kashmiri rug weavers. But like the entire market, the workshop also awaits the end of the ongoing lockdown due to COVID-19.The...