• Block Carving

    Ahmedabad part 2: Block carving

    Image: Chetan demonstrating block carving I told Errol at NID that I planned to visit Maneklal Gajjar the famous master wood block carver who has, for decades produced carved blocks for many block printers all round Gujarat, Rajasthan and other Indian states. Erroll gave me a detailed description of how to get to Pethapur where Maneklal lives and known for its block carvers. So I set off the next day determined to meet this man who is so widely praised. I arose early in hope of avoiding busy traffic, jumped in a rickshaw, which took me to the wrong bus stand, which I only realised after about half an hour,…