Key Points
Roses from college sweethearts, political pamphlets urging revolution, out-of-print sociology textbooks, untuned guitar-strings, Faiz Ahmad Faiz quotes on floral unisex t-shirts all these artefacts, and many more, found a home in Connaught Places People Tree...
Today, it is closing its doors after three decades of attracting customers and artisans from all over the world, leaving behind a pervasive legacy of fierce artistic resistance to everything post-liberalisation India had stood for: mass-produced, inexpensive and identical things...
A batchmate of theirs, Ajmal, goaded them to accompany him on a trip to Manali, but for that they needed money so they bought cheap shirts from the streets of Connaught Place, painted them on the ground outside a clinic owned by Siddhus grandparents in Regal Building, and sold them for Rs 100 apiece..
We needed that kind of honest place for expression as government projects we did back then didnt reflect peoples real stories, says Sen. The trios designs were motivated by their politics Sufi verses, feminist slogans, anti-capitalist quips...
She knew Sidhu from NID and when she started making earrings in 2007, decided to sell them through The People Tree...
