The India-Nepal Folk Crafts Festival, INCF began in Kathmandu today amid much fanfare. The festival is an initiative of South Asia Foundation, SAF to promote cultural exchanges between the two neighbours. <br/><br/>The festival, which will conclude on Friday, aims to promote crafts based bilateral relations and enhance cultural exchanges between the artisans of India and Nepal. The SAF, set up in 1991, has been working to enhance the livelihood of the artisans of the region and contributing towards strengthening the crafts sector of both the countries.<br/><br/>The festival highlights more than 70 theme based pavilion with focus on folk crafts of India and Nepal, cultural events, live demonstration by crafts-persons, design workshops to be conducted by qualified designers, trade facilitation and exclusive buyer-seller meet among others.<br/><br/>

The India-Nepal Folk Crafts Festival, an initiative of South Asia Foundation to promote cultural exchanges between the two neighbours, began in Kathmandu today. <br/><br/>The festival, from December 19 to 23, is with the objective to promote crafts based bilateral relations and enhance cultural exchanges between the artisans of India and Nepal. <br/><br/>The India-Nepal crafts festival highlights more than 70 theme based pavilion with emphasis on folk crafts of India and Nepal, cultural programmes and trade facilitation, among others.