Bamboo Matters

I have spent 15 years of my life promoting bamboo in India along with my husband Shahriyar. In 1992, we founded the Earth & Grass Workshop - the Earth derived from our ongoing interest in terracotta and grass referring to our life-long passion bamboo. Why bamboo? Well, we are both from Northeast India where bamboo reigns supreme. Perhaps our first memories are of vibrant green groves of bamboo, with the wind gently singing through them; perhaps it is the memory of 'chunga pitha', sticky rice cooked in a particular bamboo, the speicality being that the bamboo softened by the heat can be peeled like a banana !! Perhaps, it was the bamboo housing we saw as we drove along !! Whatever the reason, suffice to say that we both love bamboo and in farawy Delhi, as dry and dusty as can be and as far removed from the verdant green of our home state, we decided to do something to highlight bamboo. Today, we have our own store in Delhi called what else but The Bamboo Store where we showcase all that bamboo can offer - bamboo shoot for food, bamboo furniture, craft, basketry, flooring, gardenware and much more !! There is really no limit to what bamboo can be - with over 1500 documented uses of bamboo, you can imagine how many bamboo things there are worldwide.