Golden Pallu Awards for best sarees of 2008
Coming Monday 1/5/09
Angela with golden hair and golden saree
I love this picture.. she seems to blend in with the saree; the golden hair with almost exact shade of golden saree looks very appealing and endearing. Angela’s golden saree
Saree Shopping: Wordless Wednesday
On Wednesdays, we let the sarees do all the talking. And here it seems there are a lots of sarees, each with its own story. Picture credit XKD’s photostream
Tripta in a saree with a too much makeup
With HD imaging and gazillion megapixle cameras, you want to hide all the flaws, but putting on an extra coat of powder is not the way to go. God invented Photoshop for that purpose – use it. While you are at it, also take in a quarter inch in the blouse sleeves, so it stays with and flows with...
Hasina wins Bangladeshi Election
Sorry, wrong Hasina; below is the right one: Election officials have said the Awami League, the party of Sheikh Hasina, has won more than three-quarters of seats in the 300-seat parliament. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party of Ms Hasina’s arch-rival Khaleda Zia has won barely a tenth of that number. Turnout...
Pink “blurred saree” and five sigma designs
There is no universally accepted definition of what saree is. If you are a purist, you might argue that it has to be an “unstiched” fabric to qualify as a saree. Sometimes I long to join that purist group, but most of the time, I am Ok with extending that definition, or blurring that definition,...
BanglaDesh Election Candidate: Sheikh Hasina in a saree (or sharee)
I don’t know too much about Bangladeshi politics, but I am amazed that above two women have dominated the country for the past 15 years. The feminist in me is pleased to see that. Bangladesh goes to the poll on 29th December and I over-heard Sheikh Hasina’s speech; she was dressed in a beautiful...
Saree at a Jewelry flare in Jaipur
The cut of the saree (or drape of the saree, if you want to be purist about it) and the blouse are designed to show off more of the gold, so it wouldn’t be fair to judge the saree for its wearability design features. The only reason I am showing this is to reiterate my observation that the era...
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