However, on a positive note, Shankar mentions, “The present interruption has given us the opportunity to reflect, rethink and recalibrate both our lifestyle and work.” This pause should ideally be promoted as incubation period where self-sustaining communities and designers encourage ‘Handmade in India’, ‘Make in India’, ‘Buy Indian and promote Indian’. This can be an opportunity to harness and enhance the languishing skill, knowledge and production base of both handloom and handicraft sector. Shankar further adds, “The world post-Covid will be different where the shift will be to need and functional-based garments as many would be working from home.” With the world becoming more and more digitalised, the handcrafted products gain both in value and in currency. Designers could work on designs and innovate within the constraints of the present scenario with both empathy and sympathy for both craftspeople and consumers. A new range of textiles, clothes and crafted products could pave the future and in sync with the changing lifestyle. “Need is to build up synergies between craftspeople, weavers and designers, innovating within constraints working on an affordable range of clothing and products,” says Shankar.