“They were not merely private citizens concerned with their private improvement. Private improvement was to be the preliminary to public improvement… It was an enormous ambition, an ambition totally impossible of fulfillment; but at least it had the merit of spurring them on, of making them rush in where angels fear to tread- with results that sometimes proved, to everybody’s astonishment, that they had not been quite such fools as they looked. They were succeeded, of course, in making the best of all the worlds; but by dint of boldly trying, they made the best of many more worlds than any merely prudent or sensible person would have dreamed of being able to reconcile and combine.”– Aldous Huxley, Island

Neeson tajung Kama

Be a good human!

A phrase I learnt from my Ao Naga mother, Takola.

This sari is joined as steadfast stitch of many panels. Each panel highlights the intricate stitching involved in binding textiles of various textures and density together. While retaining the light hearted appeal of the sari, I played with colours of earth, soil and mud, leaves and mulch to pay homage to natural fertility of land.