The #100sareepact has spread its wings and is now in Hong Kong too.
To learn more and celebrate the pact, a few of us pacters were invited earlier this week to the studios of the local radio station RTHK. The host of the 123 show on Radio 3, Noreen Mir wanted to know all about the pact and our ‘sari’ histories. So while Saloni Mehra, an ex-air stewardess with Air India regaled us with tales about the challenges of working onboard in a sari, Shradha Adhukia emphasized that her saris represent her emotional ties to the women in her family. Urvashi couldn’t stop talking about her love for saris which began when she lived in Chennai while I added my own stories about the first Kasavu sari that I ever received and about hassles of commuting in a sari on the MTR . It was a fun interview and I have no idea of how the hour flew by. On my way back from the studio I decided to navigate the public bus service in a sari. If you’ve been to Hong Kong then you know that the city has an excellent transport system but even then clumsy old me managed to get my sari stuck in an crevice in an escalator. Oof… thankfully I managed to pry it loose without ripping it but I don’t think I would chance the commute again.