The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, October 05, 2002

Walking Kolkata on the ramp
THE R P Goenka family, which controls power utility CESC, is busy organising what is being described as the city's biggest fashion show in recent times. Mr Sanjiv Goenka, Vice-Chairman of the RPG group, was for once in the shadows, leaving the ... More

The new in the old
Women hailing from Bengal's aristocracy took to the ramp on Thursday in a bid to revive the usage of traditional sarees and gold ornaments during a rehearsal for a fashion show in Kolkata. While the predecessors of these women were confined to ... More

Haute couture
The country's top fashion designers (from left) Kavita Bhartia, Anamika Khanna, Sabyasachi Mukherjee (back) and Meera Ali along with Mrs Preeti Goenka, promoter of Stylefile 2002-03, at a press conference in Kolkata on Friday. Stylefile is the ... More

ARTS & CRAFTS

A craft struggles to survive — Amid the sights and sounds of Sawantwadi
FIVE red-tiled roof shops in Chitarli gully and Sawantwadi Lacquerwares run by Rani Satvashiladevi Bhonsle in Sawantwadi town in the Konkan region of Maharashtra are together trying to keep going the famed Sawantwadi woodcraft tradition. The ... More

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