Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Mann ki Baat address on October 25, 2020, asked people to go vocal for local while advocating the khadi – the handwoven cloth popularised by Mahatma Gandhi.
- PM Modi also made a reference to the region of Oaxaca (pronounced O-aa-ha-ka) in Mexico, where khadi was being manufactured.
- Khadi reached the Latin American country after a local resident became influenced by a film on Mahatma Gandhi.
- Khadi Oaxaca has been founded by Mark “Marcos” Brown, an American living in Mexico, and his wife, Kalindi Attar.
- It is a farm-to-garment collective which comprises around 400 families, which live and work on traditional farms and homesteads in the Oaxaca region of southern Mexico.
(Source: Indian Express)
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