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Heritage Fashion has a pledged saviour –  Swikruti Pradhan on Sustainable Fashion and Cultural Treasure.

Swikruti Pradhan, a fashion designer, researcher, and founder of Rustic Hue, has committed her career to preserving India’s rich textile heritage. From her early fascination with Odisha’s handloom traditions to her research on cultural sustainability, she has become an advocate for slow fashion and traditional crafts. Swikruti Pradhan has received several prestigious awards, including the SustainableNXT Awards 2024 for Social Champion of the Year, SustainableNXT Awards 2023 for Maximum Impact on Community, and India's Best Design Project 2022 for Textile Design, recognizing her outstanding work in promoting sustainable fashion and traditional Indian textiles. In this exclusive interview, Swikruti shares her journey, insights, and the challenges of reviving age-old techniques in today’s fast-paced fashion industry.

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Redefining jewellery with sustainable design: Shristi  Ghunawat – Founder of Tangerine

Tangerine, a unique bio-jewellery brand, is evolving the jewellery landscape with its innovative approach to sustainable design. Founded by young designer Shristi Ghunawat, Tangerine is redefining the benchmarks in jewellery design by incorporating an unexpected yet ingenious element: nature. At the core of Tangerine's designs lies an exquisite use of spices & seeds, skilfully coated with gold to create truly one-of-a-kind pieces that hold deeper meaning for its consumers.

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Aashima Aghi Trading Corporate Job For Sustainability: A Young Woman’s Pivot to Green Content

A passionate advocate for sustainable living. She left a successful corporate job at Zomato to focus on full-time content creation centered around sustainability. In an interview with
MOSAIC, Aashima shared her journey and insights into how simple lifestyle changes can make a significant impact on the environment.

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Sudhir Mishra: The Green Lawyer As bold as the Bollywood heroes.

Much like the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan who in the silver-screen avatar is larger-than-life, Sudhir Mishra too has been passionately voicing the conservation of tigers, wetlands, forests, and the role of society. With his signature gravitas, Sudhir Mishra has taken on the role of a green crusader with a flair that matches Bollywood’s boldness. Just as Bachchan’s towering screen presence makes his message impossible to ignore, Sudhir’s early and uncompromising advocacy for environmental law has turned him into a leading green lawyer in a field where few dared to venture when ESG or climate action was barely a conversation. He plays a role that extends beyond the usual, from saving the tigers to saving the environment.

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Bogusia Dhingra – Green journey of food for soul to food for thought.

MOSAIC had the chance to connect with BogusiaDhingra, a Polish woman who has made India her home and married into the Dhingra family which has a valued legacy in confectionery that stands out for its soul-rich patisserie and foods. We visited Alma Bakery and Café
located in sector 104, Noida to meet with its co-founder Bogusia. The name “Alma” is
significant, meaning “soul” in Spanish, encapsulating the café’s ethos: a soulful journey of food nourishing both the body and the spirit.

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Asti and Anu: A sister duo empowering weavers & preserving tradition.

It’s not every day that one encounters young women who defy family and societal expectations to pursue their true passions. MOSAIC had the pleasure of connecting with Asti and AnuBhagat, two dynamic sisters who, apart from managing their family’s hospitality business in Kolkata, have successfully established KhatKhat Handlooms —a homegrown brand dedicated to creating unique Kantha sarees. The brand is deeply committed to preserving this traditional art form while ensuring that the weaver community is fairly compensated for their intricate and labour-intensive work.

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