Rangoli Journal

Mahalaya falls on 10 October and Shashthi on the 16th. Everything below assumes you are reading this on the 7th.Still possible Buying ready-to-wear. A...

Most Puja shopping goes wrong by buying six similar things at a similar price. The days are not similar, so the wardrobe should not...

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,...

Woven work and embroidered work are priced similarly and are completely different propositions. A woven Banarasi's pattern is structural — it is the cloth....

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...