Rangoli Journal

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...

The same saree, draped two ways, is two outfits. Most people only know one drape and default to it for six days, which is...

Navratri and Durga Puja are the same nine nights of the same goddess, and the clothes have almost nothing in common. People who move...

Men's Puja dressing is mercifully simple. A kurta. And on one evening, a kurta with something over it.The whole question is: which evening, and...

A proper Saptami night in Kolkata is six to ten kilometres on foot.Most of it standing still in a queue. The rest shuffling. It...

Every plus size guide ever written is really a guide to hiding.That is why the outfits it produces are dark, safe and completely forgettable....