People have laughed at him for his attempt to save a few measly worms. But that has not stopped Kusuma Rajaiah, the Hyderabad-based handloom technologist, from working tirelessly to produce ...

People like silk garments. But they come at a cost - 50,000 silkworms for a sari. Mythily Ramachandran meets Kusuma Rajaiah, whose ahimsa silk initiative has revolutionised the industry. It all ...

It was a request from the then first lady Mrs. Janaki Venkataraman for ‘Ahimsa’ silk that made handloom technologist Kusuma Rajaiah launch his brand of mulberry silk in 1992. By making silk ...

CHENNAI: Mahatma Gandhi would have been pleased to present the Ahimsa Sari to his musical muse MS Subbulakhsmi. Mahatma’s Ahimsa theme was once again reinforced in Andhra-based Kusuma Rajaiah ...

Dr Kusuma is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Fiscal Policy Agency, Ministry of Finance of Indonesia, where he has served since 2004. He currently leads the G20 and OECD team at the Centre for Climate ...

Do you know how many silkworms are normally killed to make a silk sari? Kusuma Rajaiah, a 55-year old government officer from India's Andhra Pradesh state, does: "Around 10,000." Mr. Rajaiah ...

Kusuma Rajaiah — a handloom technologist with the Andhra Pradesh State Handloom Weavers’ Co-operative Society — is spinning Ahimsa on silk. The fabric, unlike the conventional silk, is spun ...

One little known voice of compassion comes from Hyderabad, where Kusuma Rajaiah—after years of research—now produces silk without killing the worms. A senior technical officer with APCO ...

JANGAON: The cold war between former deputy chief minister T Rajaiah and MLC Kadiyam Srihari erupted into a heated exchange of words on Tuesday, leaving the people of Station Ghanpur Assembly ...

She had 60 criminal cases lodged against her between 1980 and 2004. Kusuma was a key member of the notorious 21-member Ram Asrey Phakkad gang, which was primarily involved in kidnappings.

WARANGAL: BRS Janakipuram sarpanch Kursapalli Navya on Friday alleged that party Station Ghanpur MLA Thatikonda Rajaiah, a former deputy chief minister, was harassing her sexually and mentally and ...