Broken, mended, reimagined: Inside Hyderabad’s Kintsugi workshops
TNN / Apr 10, 2026, 18:41 (IST)
Break it, then make it whole again — but this time, with a golden scar. This is the essence of Kintsugi, a Japanese philosophy that teaches that perfection is overrated. By joining ceramic shards with gold-toned resins, hobbyists in Hyderabad are discovering that a repaired piece is often more resilient and beautiful than the original.