Mangwana, Kutch

Style Bhais of Kutch Part 4:
Cement Worker.

You can take a Kutch man off grazing and farming but you can't take the style gene out of him. Even when he wears Dabbang Ready Wanted clothes or rubber finger protection for the rough day at work, he does it with his own Tashan.

Kutch is full of limestone deposits, dotted with ports and is close to oil and gas rich middle-east. It's also dotted with huge cement plants and it's taking the young ones off the land and making them do hard labour. Animal raising and farming is a 24/7 job. Working as a casual labourer in a cement or any other factories pays you a little less but it's a job with fewer responsibilities and risk.


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Kutch

Style Bhais of Kutch Part 3.

There are colours and style in the traditional everyday dressing in the Northern Part of Kutch around the Rann that will make the most colourful birds of the region feel inadequate.

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Rapar, Kutch

Style Bhais of Kutch Part 2.

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Rapar, Kutch

Style Bhais Of Kutch. Part 1

Indians are the best dressed in the world. That is, if you come from interior Kutch and yet to adopt the boring, uniform, western pant-shirt or the 20th Century Saree Wrap or Salwar Kameez. However, it's only a matter of time before they start dressing like you and me. Progress, a canal carrying Narmada water is already here. Four lane National Highways are already here. The nomads will soon be farming all year round and Star Plus will be dictating what they will be wearing, soon. It's probably convenient and easier for people to fit in once they shed your local identity.