India, July 26 -- From spindle to silhouette, Khadi emerges as India's quiet artform, timeless, textured and deeply human, says Sakshi Priya

It began not with the flash of cameras or the rustle of silks, but with the soft whirring of a Charkha. A circle of young design students sat in quiet concentration, fingers working cotton into thread, rediscovering a rhythm that predates the runway.

What if a piece of cloth could tell you where it came from, who made it and why it still matters? Khadi is presence. It holds a country's labour, imagination and unbroken threads of tradition, woven with intention and passed through generations. Khadi is a cloth shaped by people. It begins in the hands of spinners, who work not with machines but with f...