Sari shopping

Perched on a bench in a Worli village street, a young woman follows her ancestors in the 5,000 year old hunt for the perfect sari.
In 2005 the New York Times said of the sari "Weave, color, design and manner of tying reveal the wearer's caste, community and even language. Orthodox, uneducated village women wear it one way; their modern, educated urban sisters have opted for a style created in the early 20th century by the wife of the first Indian to breach the all-white bastion of the Indian Civil Service."