fashion
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While cleaning out the cupboard, an orange silk sari reminded me of another era when college chic meant ‘Saris on Saturday’ because we’d run out of clothes to wear by then. Our regular wardrobe comprised a pair of ill-fitting denim jeans (a sad attempt at Levi, by the neighbourhood darzi ), worn with humongous ( ‘extra small’ Read more
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This evening I went for a stroll down the road mainly to find an umbrella for Wow Dinga. Obviously it was like looking for a needle in a haystack because all umbrellas have miraculously flown off the shelves. Miraculously because last week’s Rakhees are still visible in some shops……But of course I wanted a specific Read more
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For a long time I thought that the word Tattoo was the Hindi word for Pony. In slang it also meant easy-peasy or something not to be taken seriously, so I got a bit of shock when I heard that Tattoo also meant a Military Display, the first and last of which I saw at Read more
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