Rangoli Journal

Four or five days after Dashami the house does its own puja. It is a quieter occasion than anything in the week before —...

The bonedi bari Pujas — the household Pujas of North Kolkata's old families, some of them running for two hundred years — are the...

You buy a saree as it is. The blouse is the one piece of the outfit that is made to your specification, and most...

The rule with a serious woven saree is simple and almost universally ignored: the saree is the jewellery. A Katan Banarasi with real zari...

Red and white is the Puja palette and there is no arguing with it. The problem is that the classic white saree with a...

Most offices in Kolkata, Bengaluru and Hyderabad now do something in the week before Puja — a lunch, a small pandal in the lobby,...

The chaniya choli is one of the few Indian garments designed around a specific physical activity, and most of what is sold as one...

Navratri's nine colours are a genuine convention — newspapers publish the year's sequence, offices coordinate, and turning up in the day's colour is half...