Ultimately, criminal justice reform must yield benefits for the people — not just satisfy ideological ambitions.

The fan, indeed, is quite a case in point, for the poorest coolie, if he wears so much as a loincloth, always has a fan stuck in his belt, — not a palm leaf, but a folding fan such as ladies ...

Yet behind each hand-woven fan lies a deeper struggle-access to capital. The leaves, though freely found in nature, must still be bought, dried, dyed and transformed, all of which cost money.

The conventional palm leaf fans which have become a rarity seem to be making a comeback in the city with the rise in mercury levels. The trend is seen at shops that sell conventional palm and ...

Before electricity came to this region, and even afterwards when loadshedding was a daily scenario, traditional palm leaf hand-held fans, locally known as "haat-pakha", were a common item in every ...

An agricultural labourer has resorted to stitching and selling fans made of palm leaves to make a living amid the lockdown. The man, who worked on agricultural fields in Manikandam block now ...