[CAPTION]Najir Mallik, an artisan from Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal, at Adity Design’s workshop in Mumbai Image: Amit Verma[/CAPTION] In a brightly lit, air-conditioned room in Mumbai’s Lower Parel area, Sharafat Mallick sits with men hunched around the neatly arranged rows of ‘khaat’, as the wooden frames are called, inside the embroidery workshop of an export house. Hailing from West Bengal, Mallick has in front of him, stretched tight over a frame, a length of fine fabric. Diff...
