Dinkar Aiwale's many flutes of labour 'India's Mona Lisa': How Bani Thani paintings face extinction for the first time in 270 years At 70, Muralidhar Jawahire painstakingly makes paper-bamboo torans – decorative door hangings – and retains a sense of pride in a craft no one wants to learn anymore Bagani’s centuries-old iron men The last practitioners of a traditional caste-based occupation How handmade organic kohl is dying out in India: 'Chemical farming has killed multiple art forms' A life measured in metres and yards Rendal's weavers: and then there were four Shamshuddin: a spanner still in the works The great Indian vanishing rope trick A retired electrician in a Maharashtra village is fighting casteism, one bhajan at a time The story of Dhondiram Ambekar, a tailor, a farmhand – and an award-winning singer A Marathi power loom worker’s poems, written to the sound of machines, have been winning awards Why a 66-year-old Maharashtrian villager has been sending congratulatory postcards to strangers For the Lamani community, survival in the urban milieu has come at the cost of their craft