Jaya Jaitly

Jaya Jaitly has worked closely, with India’s crafts persons to sustain traditional craft livelihoods and preserve India’s cultural heritage, since 1967 and has travelled widely both in India and abroad for her work.She founded Dilli Haat, a permanent and now iconic crafts marketplace in Delhi in 1994. She works to link crafts persons to a variety of markets through innovative strategies like creating artistic crafts maps and organising over 15 international workshops with foreign artisans and Indian counterparts to further diplomacy and India’s soft power. She is a prolific writer and lectures and advises on craft development