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 ...

Kusuma Rajaiah, a 55-year old government officer from India's Andhra Pradesh state, ... Mr. Rajaiah estimates that around 15 silkworms are normally sacrificed to produce a gram of silk yarn.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Ra ...

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 ...