Fendi Navratri Bag: Are global brands too obsessed with Indian fashion? Fendi’s new $10,000 Navratri style bag has Indians questioning how long they have to wait for credit

India is a melting pot of cultures and the statement has held true for as long as the country has existed. From clothes to spices and even festivals, there is nothing the country has not shared with others across the globe. But cultural exchange and appropriation are different. And what has been happening recently with…

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In 1992, a saree weaver’s aging mother told him, ‘I can’t weave anymore’; 7 years later, the man with no engineering degree invented an award-winning machine that replaced the 9,000 hand movements needed to prepare a Pochampally saree

Chintakindi Mallesham invented the Laxmi Asu machine for Pochampally saree weavers It all started when Chintakindi Mallesham’s mother said “I can’t weave anymore. My hands have worn out.” A saree may take pride of place in a wardrobe, but for the woman who helps make it, the beauty of the finished six-yard fabric can come…

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