Nishanth Chopra

Nishanth grew up in a ‘textile town’ in Tamil Nadu, India and saw firsthand how pollution and effluent waste from nearby textile mills and factories affected local communities and ecosystems. After a stint in the UK for university, he returned home with the goal to start his own fashion line, using organic cotton, linen, and other more sustainable materials. That’s when he watched Merku Thodarchi Malai, the Tamil movie that inspired him to pay even closer attention to his cotton supply chain.

Founder of Oshadi Collective, with the desire to respect and regenerate the Earth has since led them through every process that goes into creating clothing, from printing and dyeing to weaving and spinning, and eventually back to the soil.

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