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Delve into the history of Kasavu with artist Lakshmi Madhavan in Bandra
Updated On: 18 August, 2023 08:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Devanshi Doshi
City-based artiste Lakshmi Madhavan will host a studio visit this Sunday and explain her homecoming to Malayali roots through the 200-year-old textile called Kasavu
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Lakshmi Madhavan drapes Kasavu on a model; the artiste poses with the woven fabric
Veteran politician and author Shashi Tharoor had once said that if America is a melting-pot, India is a thali, where every bowl is made to taste different, but complement each other nonetheless. Mumbai is a testament to this claim, where nearly 90 per cent of the population is believed to have originated from other parts of the country. One such story is of Kasavu chronicler Lakshmi Madhavan, who was made to shift to the city at a very young age from Kerala.
“As a child, I always had a very complicated relationship with my hometown. Apart from the holidays and vacations I’d spend in Vadagara in Kerala, I was always here, in Mumbai. My parents had a heavy English accent, and so, naturally I felt like I was being looked at differently by people. When we’d be back in Kerala, it was the same problem. I didn’t feel like I fit in anywhere — neither in Mumbai with my friends, nor back in Kerala, with my cousins,” Madhavan reveals. However, there was one person in Kerala who kept the child tied to her roots and her culture — Madhavan’s ammamma (grandmother in Malayalam).
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