Beautiful emerald green polycotton with intricate mustard threadwork border and palllu. One of my favourites (Am I saying to all the sarees??). Had a nice lunch date with Thindi Thinners (as we call ourselves), my sakkath Kannada buddies.<\/p>\n
The story behind the saree is this. It was some year, maybe 2002. My niece-in-law got married in Bangalore and I had come down from Bombay for the wedding. Now the main attraction in a wedding is oota, food, khana. This wedding was a bit different. The groom – from Silicon Valley, mind you! – was vegan and he insisted that every creature in his vicinity (say a radius of 5 miles or so; arre baba, in America, it’s miles, don’t you know!?) was vegan too. So there were no silk sarees allowed, no paayasa, no chiroti, no so-many-fun-stuff at the wedding.<\/span><\/p>\n In other words, it was a B.O.R.I.N.G wedding. I feigned a headache (look, I would have eventually got one anyway), jumped into an auto and went off to Indiranagar where Utsav had a sale. I bought this and another beautiful peacock-coloured Orissa cotton.<\/p>\n I also smuggled in some cold badami haalu to sip during the reception. If caught, I had decided to tell them that my headache (remember?) was due to calcium defiency and the doctor had specifically told me to sip cold badami haalu at vegan receptions\u00a0grin emoticon<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n psst…No one dared to question me. I became bold and even went up to congratulate the newly-weds with ‘it’ in one hand. i didn’t do it on purpose to annoy the Sili Valley dude. The doctor had prescribed it for migraine!<\/p>\n Earrings gifted to me by my son two years ago on my birthday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Beautiful emerald green polycotton with intricate mustard threadwork border and palllu. One of my favourites (Am I saying to all the sarees??). Had a nice lunch date with Thindi Thinners (as we call ourselves), my sakkath Kannada buddies. The story behind the saree is this. It was some year, maybe 2002. My niece-in-law got married…<\/p>\n