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...Ahmed has been working in the sari business for the past 13 years, during which the popularity of the famous garb has declined drastically in India's cities. Handloom-weaving is a small-scale business, so there are no comprehensive statistics to track it, but weavers say they've noticed a marked decline in the past decade. V.P. Sharma, 48, has been employed as a weaver in the handloom sari industry in Bihar since 1988. He blames the slowdown on women's changing tastes. It is particularly bad for handloom saris - the simple cotton saris that many Indian women used...
...Sales do pick up in the winter, Delhi's high season for lavish parties and weddings, but fashionable young women are more interested in designer saris in sheer fabrics made on power looms, not the traditional handwoven silks like the ones in their mothers' cabinets. "I'm a sari freak," says Deepa Nangia, 36, a nutritionist. "I love wearing saris for parties and functions, but that's only designer saris, actually. Who wears traditional saris anymore?" She adds that she is the only one in her circle of friends who has any interest in wearing saris at all. "Youngsters feel...
...most prized Indian sari styles - Banarasi and Kanjeevaram silks - are also facing new competition. Depending on the intricacy of design, it takes 15 to 30 days to weave one of these saris, which sell for $50 to $60. A Banarasi silk weaver, Abdul Basit Ansari, 37, has been working for the past 20 years weaving these garments, which come from the holy city of Varanasi. "The industry is facing lots of difficulties," he says. "This is primarily because the sale of fake Banarasi saris made in power looms has been picking up and also because of the sale of cheap...
...Science Center C on Friday night, but instead of picking up syllabi, they grabbed free condoms and cupcakes frosted with images of vaginas. The lecture hall was packed for the fifth annual Female Orgasm Seminar, organized by the Radcliffe Union of Students and led by speaker and sex educator Sari Locker. Locker mainly focused on the importance of knowing one’s own sexuality rather than relying on what the media, pornography, or others say should feel pleasurable. “It takes three things to know your own sexuality,” Locker said...
...distrust against them. “Club Native” reveals how Mohawk women in the Canadian town of Kahnawake face patriarchal norms that force them to marry to preserve “blood purity” while disenfranchising women of mixed heritage. Another film, “The Sari Soldiers,” profiles six Nepalese women on divergent ends of the political, economic and social spectrum during Nepal’s civil war and democratic revolution. The prejudices and sufferings depicted in these films serve to underscore and pay homage to the women’s resilience. They...