Varanasi: US Vice President Kamala Harris will not know who Kunj Bihari Singh, but must have been happy to receive beautiful handmade gifts, a chess set made from Gulabi Meenakari, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their meeting in the US.
Friday.
This beautiful gift was made by Kunj Bihari, the winner of the Master of Artisan and the National Award of Varanasi, Modi Parliament Constituency.
Considering orders for orders for the chess set after PM movements, local experts believe that it will be very helpful in reviving this beautiful art form.
During his visit the US, PM reportedly served chess which was designated as a gift for Harris.
In addition, he also talented Gulabi Meenakari to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the Buddha Sandalwood Statue to the Japanese Premier Yoshihide Suga.
“Kashi crafts from Gulabi Meenakari gets international recognition after PM presents artifacts to world leaders,” said Bihari who was happy to the toi on Saturday.
“Since then, orders flow from various parts of the country and abroad, and I have received a 25 set of chess sets,” he said, adding that the positive movement of PM towards Kashi crafts would definitely help revive this art after the setback Covid-19.
On demand, he himself had gone to New Delhi on September 19 to hand over crafts to the authorities, he said.
While Kunj Bihari has made a chess set, his brother Tarun Kumar, who is also a national beneficiary, has created a ship.
Gulabi Meenakari or Pink Enameling from Banaras joined the coveted geographical indication club (GI) in 2015.
“The presentation of this craft at the international level by PM will improve this art globally,” said GI experts and presidents of human welfare associations.
(Hwa) Dr.
Rajani Kant, which facilitates many crafts to get GI certification.
This is a global branding of Indian crafts marked by GI by PM and will improve the prospects of Indian art and crafts, he said.
Gulabi Meenakari from Banaras is a unique art form.
This is considered the most limited and technical of all metal decorations.
The National Museum of India, New Delhi and Bharat Kala Bhawan, Hindu University Banaras has this collection of art.
According to the specifications given in GI notices, Banaras Gulabi Meenakari is basically an ancient art form in India which has been praised since its introduction to the design and combination of extraordinary colors.
It is marked with a pink stroke on white enamel.
Unlike the vibrant sixeling in red, green and blue Jaipur and Delhi, where white enamel left, Varanasi craftsmen carefully add pink to the dominant white enamel.
The motives are Lotus bloom and shoots.
It was said to have been introduced in Varanasi by Persian’s sixellists who came to India in the early 17th century at the top of the Mughal court.
This is a unique craft where meenakar (enameling craftsmen) makes items such as religious leaders of gods and goddesses on silver and gold sheets, various types of traditional ornaments and decorative items, motifs, including flowers and birds from gold and silver metals.
Late Rai Krishnadas, founder of western director Kala Bhawan, has also written that Banaras stands next to Jaipur in the art of sixeling and the nature of Pink Banaras is similar to Jaipur Red.
In the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Pink Enamel was well-known throughout the country and was far sought after by Prince and Aristocracy.
In contrast to Jaipur’s red enamel, which still maintains high quality and fine workmanship in the 19th century, a short-lived pink banaras enamel.
It ended here in the first quarter of the 20th century when the last Hereditary Master Babbu Singh died in 1923.
After a gap about half a century, there was a revival of pink sixeling in Banaras, especially as a trade to meet the demands of tourists and women, who had been taken to jewelry Old more as fashion rather than because of love for charm and grace.