Saree - Unspoken love of mothers Weaved through the passage of time Folded into the depth of our hearts

‘The memory of my mother, draped in a cotton saree, with her solitaire earrings and a bindi on her radiantly beautiful face, contrasted against her open smile, symbolizing the simplistic beauty that I grew up with. The muted soft cotton with a gentle sheen across its seven yards swathe, encased in parallel strips of threads, defined energy, kindness, and sheer beauty. In our subcontinent, sarees are considered family heirloom and generational blessings. My mother’s memories now travel with me with her sarees’.

The book brings together ten women exploring the themes of the sarees and their mothers. Represented in this book are the concepts of identity, cultural inheritance, legacy, and the exploration of vibrant sarees. It inspires us to seek solace, and reexamine our roots and evokes deeper essence of ourselves and our relationships with our mothers - connecting generations into an eternal bond, under the shadows of their “Anchal”.

The book does not have any beginning or end, each spread is dedicated to a different story - collage of a saree with  a story and a memory as told by one of the ten women.

Contributors: Farhana Kabir, Namrata Mishra, Divjyot Sachdev, Mythreyi Nethi, Malka Shamrose, Rachana Sen Maitra, Moniza Choudhury, Jaya Mishra, Shaila Nahar, Laila Nahar