{"id":1410,"date":"2025-07-11T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paramparikkarigar.com\/redesigned\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:52:09","slug":"paramparik-karigar-celebrates-20-years-of-an-empowering-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paramparikkarigar.com\/redesigned\/paramparik-karigar-celebrates-20-years-of-an-empowering-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramparik Karigar celebrates 20 years of an empowering tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1410\" class=\"elementor elementor-1410\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5711e2de e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5711e2de\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40b09ded elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"40b09ded\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>It&#8217;s this age we live in\u2014the age of the smartphone, where the next generation of everything ensures that anything can be just a step away from getting obsolete. Given this, Paramparik Karigar may seem like an anomaly\u2014anachronistic, almost\u2014in its key objective: taking traditional Indian arts, crafts and textiles out of obscurity and placing them centre stage. 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