A sari is a deceptively simple garment. It’s a rectangular-shaped piece of cloth six yards long. That’s it. No zippers, no buttons, no hooks, no straps. You wrap the fabric around yourself once, tuck ...

Divia Thani's Vogue essay about wearing saris in London and discovering that this, somehow, is now a political act belongs ...

Author Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri's non-fiction writing, The Sari Eternal is a tribute to the unstitched fabric through her ...

The sari debuted in the Indus Valley around 2800 B.C.E. Here in the 21st century, it’s undergoing “conceivably its most rapid reinvention in its 5,000-year history,” according to the Design Museum in ...

An excerpt from 'The Sari Eternal' by Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri narrates how the sari figures in the epics and literature.

In The Sari Eternal, Puri has used her pen, much like the shuttle on a loom, to intertwine the past, present and the unknown ...

I remember a wall of color. I am 4 or 5, walking with my parents into a Friday night gathering of Indian immigrant families in the suburbs of Boston. A group of aunties greets us at the door, and I am ...

My parents were married for more than 40 years, happily. But my mother says her greatest joy is stacked in her closet: her saris, or, as Bengalis say it, shaaris. "Because sari is my passion, maybe my ...

Saris with sneakers and crop tops, or saris draped like dresses and worn with a jacket on top—Gen Z is bringing the 5.5-meter unstitched garment full circle to what it used to be for many Indians: an ...

As Mehta explains, “Alia wears a custom ivory classic georgette sari with hand embroidery in shades of royal and ice blue, ...