Sally Holkar left America and made India her home nearly 60 years ago. She went on a mission to revive a dying craft and ...

The inherent resilience of India as a cultural entity is entrenched in the looms and multiple weaving skills,’ said the ...

He’s on the board of Rehwa, a weaver-­focused nonprofit that his parents, Richard (Shivajirao) and Sally (Shalini Devi) Holkar, started in 1979 to revive the Maheshwari handloom industry.

They include devotional folk singer Bheru Singh Chouhan, novelist Jagdish Joshila and social entrepreneur Sally Holkar. 64-year-old Chauhan, who is known as Nirgun Bhakti Ke Bheru from Malwa has ...

American-born Sally Holkar was awarded the Padma Shri for reviving Maheshwari handloom weaving and empowering rural women artisans in India. Pravrajya Suruchi Updated : Feb 21, 2025, 08:18 PM IST ...

Years later, after Singh moved to Delhi (but continued her interest in all things cultural), their paths intersected again when she and her friends were involved with Sally and Richard Holkar at ...

When Sally Ride arrived at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in 1978, there were approximately 4,000 technical employees working there. Want to guess how many were men? If you said 3,996 ...

By Caryn James When Sally Ride died in 2012, she was praised as the first American woman in space, but there was much more to the story. Her obituaries let the world know a secret she had long ...

During one of the countless, often boneheaded interviews Sally Ride endured about her pioneering role in the United States space program, she schools a reporter on how to address her.

Sally Ride wanted to be remembered as being fearless. In reality, though, the first American woman to fly into space was scared — and it had nothing to do with her leaving the planet.