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Kusama Rajaiah, a Hyderabad based textile technocrat, has developed an innovative way of making silk that does not involve the killing of silkworms. The Ahimsa silk, as Rajaiah calls it, is made by harnessing silk filaments from broken cocoons after the silk moths fly away by piercing them at maturity.
The idea originated after a request from then first lady of India (between 1987 and 1992) Janaki Venkataraman for a silk sari made without killing a silkworm. As thousands of silkworms are killed in order to make a small piece of fabric.
