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Sabah Gurmat

Storyteller

Sabah Gurmat is an independent journalist presently based in Mumbai, India. She is interested and curious about issues of human rights, culture, and gender, and has reported primarily on the same. She can be reached on Twitter.

Stories from Sabah Gurmat

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Meet Haseen Mohammad and Shahid Junaid, the master weavers preserving the silk-weaving traditions of Varanasi, India

Hand-woven silk saris have been prized in India for centuries, but cost-efficient power loom productions threaten to make them obsolete.