Routes From Roots

"India is as an ocean of flair when it comes to the handicrafts and craft makers". Along with these lines, this blog thinks of the one of kind workmanship of Madhya Pradesh from Gwalior, that is Batto Bai Dolls of Gwalior. Batto Bai Dolls? The craftswoman whose name was Batto Bai began making these dolls for the districts however later they got world-renowned and then she gave the name to dolls as Batto Bai Dolls. Her grandson, Bharat Singh Parihar said "his grandma took in this handcrafted craft of making dolls from his mother-in-law after she got married and now her mother Mrs Naval Kishori along with his wife are into making these dolls. Story behind these dolls? Batto bai dolls are the pair of male and female dolls, so essentially one of the principle idea driving creation these dolls as Gudda and guddiya were to cause the pair to get married on the special Hindu occasion of Gangaur and Teej by the unmarried young ladies with the expectation of getti

The tourism industry is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors in India and is expected to contribute about Four trillion rupees to the Indian economy by 2024 (Chauhan, 2016). Due to this reason the tourism industry is developing new alternative forms of tourism around the world. As well as today’s generation needs and wants are changing. They want to experience, exploring and enjoying their tour. Nowadays traveller desires to learn new-new things and doing some unusual kind of activities so that they can experience some out of the box kind of new stuff. The main reason behind merging up the Handicraft industry into the tourism industry by coming up with the name “Handicraft Tourism” is that the Tourism industry has multidimensional, social, cultural, economic and political characteristics. It is not only a growth engine but also an employment generator. As per the UN’s world tourism organization, tourism provides around 6-7% of the world’s total jobs directly and millions mo