In a world that is increasingly driven by mass-produced fast fashion trends, a quiet revolution stirs. A revolution that isn’t stirred by industrial-grade machines, but woven by the skilled hands of artisans that carry forth their age-old familial legacy of craftsmanship. One, that doesn’t cater to directionless impulses driven by clickbait or influencer content, but fulfils a more wholesome exchange of culture, craft and sustainable fashion. This quiet revolution is a story

My Rajasthani brain glitches every time I see abundance. What do you mean fruit just… grows here? Flowers bloom like it’s no big deal?...

Café Auberge: The Power of Six By Urvashi Singh A recent addition to Jaipur’s vibrant culinary landscape comes in the form of a quaint...

Conservationist, assistant Vice President to a furniture company, motorcyclist and a mother of two- meet Jamnia’s Preetika Baisa as she...

It all began in 2006, when Kunwarani Sushila Kumari requested Maharani Sahiba of Jodhpur to permit her a small jewellery curation table...

Meet Katyayini Singh Waghela, the young scioness of Sanand as she expresses her budding journey as a mixed media artist. An...

Famed over the centuries for being India's most enigmatic celebration of Dussehra, Kullu's Dussehra remains as unique as it was 5 centuries ago. This year, Rajputana Collective is privileged to have Kullu's Dei Saab Rupeshwari Kumari Singh account for what these divine festivities have meant to her- as the eldest child and daughter of the house of Kullu. My memory takes me to the Dussehra of 2001 when I was merely 3 years old. My grandfather called for me, I see myself runnin

I call my annual trip to the Spiti Valley my pilgrimage. The surreal landscapes, starlit night skies and stark beauty of Spiti make their...

The Gond art form remains the legacy of one of India’s largest tribal communities, the Gonds. Spreading over the Deccan, Central and Eastern India, these indigenous people have been perfecting painted and carved art for over 1400 years. Dating back to the Mesolithic Period, Gond art can be found on the walls of ancient caves. More popular expression of Gond art over the centuries is found on the mud-plastered floor and walls of Gond homes, chiefly for the totemic symbolism th

Shreyasi Singh is not your typical millennial. Before her life clocked three decades, she has won her nation several shooting laurels…

The days have been flowing at a hectic, almost but not quite frenetic speed that has been all but normalised in the year that was 2020. The nights are even longer but have a distinctively spiritual and self-reflective quality. India is a cacophony of sights, sounds, smells, a sensorial fest where chaos is its equilibrium. But now India teeters around a dangerous flux. A flux around religion and autocracy as exemplified by the shutting down of Tanishq stores  and the taking do

Sanjay Singh Badnor uncovers the dazzling journey of Bollywood's celebrated stylist and costume designer from Madhya Pradesh's former princely state of Narsingharh in this exclusive feature for Rajputana Collective.

In The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, celebrity influencer Marie Kondo propagates the Japanese art of decluttering and organising through a purging process of one’s immediate living spaces. The exponential growth of rapid consumerism has met with several countercurrents of ethical questioning, with minimalism leading this fray. Popular streaming channels such as Netflix have taken the lead in broadcasting commentaries on the dire need of minimalism, sustainability and c

A postgraduate student at the London School of Economics, her country’s astonishing lapses in public policy led Shubhangana to take up the subject as her specialisation. Her sister Veerangana is an Economics major from Mumbai’s St. Xavier’s College and endeavours to work in the world of sustainable fashion. Together, they have launched a series of social welfare initiatives for social welfare and wildlife conservation, the most recent one being Dor.

The Jamsaheb of Nawanagar (present-day Jamnagar) went down in history as India’s all-time-great cricketer, popularly commemorated today through the domestic first-class cricket championship named after him as the Ranjhi Trophy. His numerous offshoots, such as Duleep Sinhji and Ranvir Jadeja carried Indian cricketing to newer heights to the extent that renders Indian cricket incomplete without its Jadejas of Nawnagar. Anyone hailing from such an illustrious lineage of sportspe

Dualism is a word that most of us Rajput millennials know too well. We have grown up juggling with two parallel worlds. On the one hand, there is the bygone era of Rajput glory that continues to resonate in present-day rituals, folklores and songs. On the other hand, lies an expanding world of liberal ideas, freedom and change that we begin dissolving into, once education and schooling begins. No sooner do we come of age and return to our ancestral dwellings than that contras

Amidst the creative cityscape of Jodhpur that has long since bustled with design hallmarks, former NIFT graduate and 36-year-old Tarini Singh’s design label, The Cobalt Company stands out as its latest retail affair.

She’s hip and she’s sassy, she’s unassuming and she’s nonchalant. When asked about the staggering figure of 12.2 thousand that organically follows her Instagram handle, the fashionista casually dismisses it as social media fun coupled with sheer chance. A freelance associate producer and event manager based in India’s Maximum City, Vedika Rana is living life one dream at a time. This fall, Rajputana Collective rises to the opportunity of featuring the upcoming creative entrep

A little girl from the erstwhile kingdom of Rewa in Madhya Pradesh grew up believing that no dream was too big for her to achieve. From the very beginning, she had her heart set on performing arts such as dancing and acting, but held reservations vis-a-vis its acceptance within her community, where dancing and acting were watched and much-appreciated, but never conducted by oneself. However, the oft-related stereotypes and hurdles attached to the art and career of performing