As artists get ready to explore the wonders of this versatile weave, the gamchha is slowly dispelling the myth about the poor man’s towel, with its strikingly rich colours.
When India’s new golden girl, Hima Das, soaked in the adulation of a thunderous crowd at the Finnish city of Tampere, holding aloft the Tricolour during a victory lap,a sparkling dash of red on a pristine white cloth sat quietly around the athlete’s neck. The gamchha—or as Das’s home state Assam calls it, the gaamosa—made a huge statement in the eyeball-grabbing photograph of the week.
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