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\nOk. The block print on this saree has a funny anecdote!
\nI learnt to cycle when I was about 5. I kinda came late to the family on my dad’s side –with my only sibling,my elder sister being 10 years older n my cousins being 15\/20 years older. So I was always treated like the baby. I liked it at times, but I jus wanted to be taken seriously sometimes too!
\nWhen all of them were showing off their driving n riding skills in their bikes n cars…I was learning to balance on a teeny tiny cycle.
\nI grew up in a house that spread almost over an acre right in the middle of the city. My ‘play area’ was near Amma. Wherever she had work, I was allowed to play nearby so that she could have a watchful eye over me. And on the first day I tried to balance on “my own”…I went so fast that I didn’t hit the brakes in time n cycled straight through the pile of clothes in the ‘dhobikhana’ part of the house.
\nWell…cycling through the mud kinda left a cycle tyre print on amma’s saree. And that was enough for everyone to tease my riding skills n road sense for very long!
\nAmma loved that saree n preserved it. So when she wanted to revamp it, I drew a very simple ‘cycle tyre’ inspired geometric n got it block printed for her in a similar colour too!
\nYes she tells everyone that story whenever she wears it! This is how early my antics on the cycle n mishaps wth the brakes started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
7\/100 \u202a\u202c Ok. The block print on this saree has a funny anecdote! I learnt to cycle when I was about 5. I kinda came late to the family on my dad’s side –with my only sibling,my elder sister being 10 years older n my cousins being 15\/20 years older. So I was always treated…<\/p>\n