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7 Budgets, 7 Sarees: Tribute to India's handloom heritage

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman wore an off-white Mangalgiri saree with a magenta border from Andhra Pradesh to present the full Budget for 2024-25. Earlier in Feb. 2024, she wore a…

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Published July 23, 2024 · 1 min read
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New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman wore an off-white Mangalgiri saree with a magenta border from Andhra Pradesh to present the full Budget for 2024-25. Earlier in Feb. 2024, she wore a blue saree with Kantha stitch work, famous in West Bengal, while presenting the 2024 interim Budget.

In 2023, she opted for a red temple border saree, belonging to the Karnataka Dharwad region’s Ilkal silk saree with Kasuti work, which is hand-woven. In 2022, Nirmala Sitharaman wore a brown Bomkai saree, paying tribute to the handloom of Odisha from the Ganjam district.

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