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Top 10 Types of Blouses Available at Umbara

When we talk about women's clothing- Ethnic or Western, most of the time it’s related to something trendy and fashionable and some luxe designer styles or some hot-chic patterns. But wait, this is not what Umbara is all about. It’s beyond all these and that is what makes it a different one and for that Umbara feels proud. It absolutely understands that with you, your clothing style needs to change too. Well, it won’t make you look prettier or bring any glamour to your attire because it believes you just don’t need it. Rather, it believes in making that is you, that will resemble you- from the colors, patterns and designs, each and every detail in it will tell about...

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Creation from Chaos - the Kanban way

Creation of any sort is almost always a chaotic process. A million thoughts collide to spin webs of life that meet at one central point - the centre of your creation itself. However, chaos is not always visible. There could be a million moving parts that threaten to usurp your mindspace - mental boxes that you carefully reserved and rationed for different parts of the process. Even so, there is no saying what may happen to the rest of your resources while you fixate on one issue, one moving part, one little cog that seems to be out of tune with the rest of your work. Workplaces that are based on the creation of something anything, often face a wide...

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Chindi Si Baat: From Rags to Rewarding Experiences

Umbara’s Unlock stories have shown you the journey that Rama and the Umbara women went on, together. It has been a journey of shared stories, hopes, pains, obstacles, triumph, creation, and empowerment. The creation of an entire line of products from scraps of cloth, that too in such unprecedented times, was in no way an easy job. What drove the women was not just a wish to do something with their time, but also a need to establish their own centres of power within themselves. Rama understood the different aspects of this process and mindspace. At Umbara, we depend on our women. Their resilience, strength, and grace never fail to leave us awestruck. To them, sewing and creating these products...

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Of courage and creation: The Making of Umbara’s ‘Unlock Series’

It hasn’t been easy at all, for anyone, to make the most of the lockdown. These are uncertain times, and life is now more than ever a factor of what we do with it. The unusual thing at Umbara, something that gives us strength and joy, is the tenacity of the team not to bow down to difficult situations. It is important for us to chronicle the learnings and the breakthroughs that the team worked with to overcome the situations that being closer to grassroots often entails. Barriers and their breakingFor women, a usual barrier is the inability to step out of their homes, there is the pressure of managing the household, juggling responsibilities, and the inevitable restrictions brought by...

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