The Alcha store set up in Santiniketan in 2004 opened for the last time in June 2020. Primarily because retail business was uncertain in the times of Covid but also because having run it for 17 years there was some amount of fatigue that had set in.

However, the design of Alcha products continues at our studio in Santiniketan and production continues in the suburbs of Bolpur and villages around where all the artisans live.