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Scientifically
proven Asian beauty care |
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Shashi
Gosain's Kensington based company Pharma Clinix has devised
scientifically proven products for Asian skin care. She says
besides some unproven herbal remedies hardly anything was
available in the UK market for Asian skin care. She has
written many books for Asian women including a best selling book
on anti-aging.
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Khubsoorat: Pioneering ethnic fashion in UK |
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Despite huge roadblocks fashion designer Mani Kohli founded
Khubsoorat in 1985. As a pioneer of Indian fashion in the UK she has
dressed the likes of Dimple Kapadia,
Malaika Arora, Akshyay Kumar, Liberty X, Talvin
Singh and Bally Sagoo. Mani
has also done costumes for the hit movies, such as "Bend it like
Beckham" . Already established in New York, she recently
opened another flagship store in London's Green Street. She tells
the story of pioneering Indian fashion in the UK
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I
had to quit jobs because of my Sari |
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A few years after her
husband's death Mrs Raksha Tandon came to Britain in
1965 to join a British company as export manager. The
first thing company chairman asked her was to wear an
English dress and not to wear a sari at work. She refused. The job offer was withdrawn. She
survived by cooking Indian meals for Oxford students and
then entered into fashion business selling to stores
like Liberty and Harrods and thus she became the first
Indian fashion exporter to UK.
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Sari on the Beeb: BBC goes native |
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was a time when Sari wearing women used to be sacked from their jobs in
Britain. They were often taunted on the street. Leaving the years of agony behind today the
Sari-wali women are determined to claim their
rightful place in the British society and could
there be a better place to demonstrate the charms of
sumptuous Hyderabadi silk than the BBC News studio.
When the BBC news reader Sharuna Sagar appeared in Sari
for her nightly bulletin most of the audience loved it
but then there were some who were quite
upset. "I was upset to see that newsreader was
wearing a
Sari," wrote one of them. So was wearing sari on
the Beeb a pre-planned planned move?
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No saris please, we are British |
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During the
early 60s when Baroness Flather arrived on
her first teaching job the school headmaster
said, "I don't want to see you in those
flowing things." In those days wearing
a Sari could deprive you from a job.
Today many high profile British
women including the prime minister Blair's
wife and some cabinet ministers proudly wear
'those flowing things'. Baroness Flather,
whose Saris are often talked about in the
House of Lords, feels vindicated.
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