A Khadi expo at Bhagyamala auditorium, Chandrasekharan Nair Stadium, is drawing good crowds.
The expo, organised by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission, has a host of products, with saris from West Bengal being the highlight.
A stall of the Kerala Sarvodaya Sangh has a range of products, all available at 30 per cent discount. Cotton churidar material, khadi shirt and kurta fabric, readmade shirt and kurtas, silk shirts, white cloth, mundu, bedsheets, and so on.
A number of stalls from West Bengal sell saris in various materials and designs. These include cotton, cotton silk, jute silk, raw silk, tussar, Kantha, Tant cotton and Tant Banarasi, handloom silk and so on.
The price starts from ₹800 onwards after discount.
If Kolhapuri chappals is what you had been hankering for, then the expo is the place to come. Bags, belts, wallets, jackets too are available here. The Trivandrum Sarvodaya Sangh stall has pillows, soaps, bedsheets, towels, and lungis.
On the first floor too is stall selling saris from Bengal. Yet another sells hand embroidered saris, dress material, and bedsheets. Then there are other products such as cane and bamboo furniture; handmade soaps; cereal powders such as arrowroot, maize rava, palm flour, rice such as bamboo and navara, and rice flakes; banana, jute and other fibre products such as bags, purses, handbags, keychains, table mats, footwear, and so on.
One stall sells handicrafts made from animal horn. Lemongrass oil, mosquito repellant, iron knives, honey are also available.
