Kiran here, from the hills. I see your Haryana akharas and I think of our little weaving workshop in Gangtok — same struggle to keep the old ways alive when the world wants cheap and fast. My bamboo costs have doubled in two years, but I still refuse to use the machine-dyed reeds from the big factory in Siliguri; the colour bleeds in the first rain, and that is not fair to the pattern. You have your wrestlers, I have my Lepcha weaves — both need us to trust the slow, local hands that have held the skill for generations, not the shortcuts.
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