Year: 2020

How Coronavirus Has Reduced Assam’s Silk Town To A Cemetery

How Coronavirus Has Reduced Assam’s Silk Town To A Cemetery

GUWAHATI TIMES: The looms have long gone silent. The traditional hand-operated, bamboo-and-wood contraptions on which skilled artisans weave dreams in threads of silk. And the modern machines that usually whirred day and night to churn out traditional dresses. But Sualkuchi, the silk town of Assam, is silent as a cemetery