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The timeless appeal of the south Asian classic has gone global – and a new London exhibition shows how it has been reinvented
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The timeless appeal of the south Asian classic has gone global – and a new London exhibition shows how it has been reinvented
Running all through the summer, the exhibit uses the sari as a protagonist to tell stories of political unrest, personal narratives and a generation’s new perspective born of the cloth
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