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4:["$","p","5",{"children":"The metal work artisans in Ladakh also make ladles, bowls, lamps, caps for butter tea cups but their most exquisite pieces are the “chapskyan and thagus”, pots used to serve tea or local alcohol."}]
5:["$","p","6",{"children":"Most metal workers have small dark individual workshops or studios, mostly near their homes. These spaces often echo in a way that somehow reminds you of the clangs and clangs that probably resonated in Blake’s mind when he wrote “The Tyger”."}]
6:["$","p","7",{"children":"Inside the workshops, other than these repetitive, meditative sounds were old traditional tools like the “budpa” a fascinating fire blower made with animal skin, pliers of different sizes called skangpas, rangos (hammers) and many other tools used to shape and refine the product."}]
7:["$","p","8",{"children":"These quaint spaces that are so easy to fall in love with to an outsider, however, do not seem to work the same charm anymore on the metalwork community. Most of these workshops now are being broken down in many areas, as no young people want to take on the craft and most older artisans are getting too old to continue working. This, unfortunately, is the common thread that ties all of Ladakhi craft, we are at a stage where we have already lost the refinement in most crafts and now it has been stripped bare to only serve local function or touristic whim."}]
e:T459,At this point, these narratives become important but it is intensive support to these crafts from the general Ladakhi community and government-led schemes and initiatives that are of paramount importance. Here it is also important to note that due to the casteist and classist systems prevalent in this country, craft communities either completely dissolve into larger groups of the working class or “unskilled labor” in spite of their skill or they live very arduous lives in the face of constant stigma. The Ladakhi society doesn’t adhere to the same caste groups as the rest of the country but that does not rid the community of forming its very own caste and class boundaries and therefore, it doesn’t spare our marginalized communities the same future that other communities in the country have faced time and time again. Victims of this caste divide in Ladakh are often traditional artisans and musicians and therefore, it is ever more crucial at this horrible time of insensitivity in the world that Ladakh goes back to its ways of support and peaceful coexistence to empower and uplift its people.8:["$","p","9",{"children":"$e"}]
9:["$","p","10",{"children":"The steps continuing from here seem confusing and tricky however, if they are not taken and we continue to live in our blissful ignorance hiding behind the mask of innocent naivety, we will soon be silent, tied up, helpless spectators to the death of yet another form of expression – of art."}]
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