Weaving woes on the handlooms

India Together: Weaving woes on the handlooms - 7 February 2006: " Though it employs a massive number of rural people, the handloom sector is considered a sunset industry. While some of the sector's troubles come from the relentless march of mechanisation, modernisation and sophistication, there's more to the troubled weavers' plight, says Narasimha Reddy."