If a kimono is like a cloak that swaddles a woman, a sari is like a veil that hides or flaunts what a woman chooses.
After World War II she married an Indian architect and moved with him to Delhi, where she plunged into the culture, wearing a sari and exploring the bazaars.
Last year, a senior Haryana government official objected to women employees coming to the office attired in anything except salwar kameez (loose tunic and trousers) or a sari.
Builder Natwarlal Desai was cut down by bullets in Nariman Point, Bombay's top business district, and Bharat Kumar, owner of a sari shop, was slain outside his store.
Sometimes she is dressed in her police uniform, but often she is undercover, wearing a colourful salwar kameez (long tunic and pyjama) or a sari to blend in with the female passengers.
Outside the Tata Motors gates in Pune, a woman in a flowing red sari balances a 3-foot-wide basket on her head.
Rama came sweeping into my hospital room with the haughty grandeur of a Brahmin empress, wearing a salmon pink sari and leading a retinue of assistants, interpreters, and equipment bearers.
Tintin, along with Captain Haddock, Snowy and a host of other passengers - including a woman in a purple sari and green blouse!
Tight skirts, cocktail dresses and power suits are all in, even for women used to being seen in a wispy sari or draping salwar kameez.
One of the four, Ami Ayalon, has teamed up with a prominent Palestinian, Sari Nusseibeh, to produce a blueprint for peace that includes a full Israeli withdrawal.
Jade Ewen, one of a trio that makes up the British pop band Sugababes, tries on a gold-colored sari blouse, cut like a halter top and covered in sequins.
In an article in "Psychology Today, " a sex therapist, Sari Cooper, points out that "subs" and "doms" are nothing new and that throughout history, men and women have occupied both roles.
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But there is a way in which the sari can completely transform itself without losing its integrity that is at the root of its enduring appeal to Indian women.
In each town or province, the program organizes local sari-sari stores into a group, and turns one of the stores into a large "Community Store" that doubles as a wholesale market where the owners of other smaller stores in the area can procure the goods they need.
But there is something about the sari that gives it a unique staying power.
At Taman Sari bungalows are set on a long stretch of quiet beach, and feature intricate carvings and other traditional artwork.
The sari-clad Vidya undertook a "road show, " covering over 150 villages.
Sari Weis, 28, is a program coordinator at the San Francisco Health Plan.
Bank Indonesia Deputy Director Yunita Resmi Sari said the central bank imposed a minimum down payment for car and motorcycle loans last year to limit banks' credit risk and to ease consumers' debt burden.
"Please tell people that Turkey is still a safe place to come, " said Yakup Sari, office manager at Istanbul's other great landmark, the Blue Mosque.
The Indian edition attracts almost entirely Indian readers and a lot of advertising aimed specifically at Indians: for sari silk, flights to Bombay and so on.
Mukesh shunned a tuxedo for an Indian Nehru jacket with Nita wearing an exquisite Indian sari.
Aparna Choudharie, a scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, sat cross-legged in her sari on the ground as she cheered on one of the speakers who took the stage.
Escorted to our room by an elegant receptionist, the folds of whose sari swished across the checkered marble floor as she walked, we passed through a library lined with teak and rosewood bookshelves and furnished with a table inlaid with marquetry of breathtaking intricacy and skill.
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In place of the kosher butchers, fish-fryers, boot-makers, furriers and tailors who lined Brick Lane itself a century ago, and the weavers and cheese-makers of Huguenot days, there are now sari centres, halal restaurants and vendors of exotic produce.
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