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The sari as art and political statement
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A sari that Ms Shahana Hanif, the first South Asian woman to be elected to the New York City Council, wore to her swearing-in ceremony in 2021, on display at the New York Sari exhibition.
PHOTO: TONY CENICOLA/NYTIMES
Alisha Haridasani Gupta
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NEW YORK - In the summer of 1929, one of India’s foremost female freedom fighters, Ms Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, travelled to Berlin with several other delegates to attend a conference of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship.
India was still under British rule and, as a result, the Indian representatives at the gathering did not have a flag.
