#GuestPost My Mother's Sari by Shaheen Ashraf-Ahmed

When I was first married, my mother gave me her best saris. When a young woman gets married in Indian tradition, she is sent off with a fine wardrobe of fancy traditional outfits that she will wear for the first year of her married life, at each function to which she and her new husband are invited. Since every community friend or family member is expected to celebrate the new couple with an event at their home, these clothes are put to good use. It is a special time, to be so fêted and not a...