Atiqa is a collective of Afghan women who have found a semblance of home in Delhi after escaping the turmoil in their country. The women, however, found they needed to earn a living. Lawyers at the Ara Trust’s Migration and Asylum Project (MAP), India’s only refugee law centre, run by women, noted the dexterity with which Afghan women did embroidery. They helped them form Atiqa which means ‘antique’ in Persian. MAP also got them funding and linked them to Dastkar, a non-profit that works with traditional artisans, so that the women would. . .