Bigg Boss Malayalam 7: Sariga opens up to Adhila, says, 'I thought I would never accept two girls in love, but now I adore you both'
Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 7 has already carved its place in history by featuring Adhila and Noora, the first-ever lesbian couple to participate in any Indian
Bigg Boss
franchise. While their entry sparked nationwide conversations, it's not just the headlines they're changing; it's hearts, too.
In a recent emotional episode, housemate Sariga shared a heartwarming moment with Adhila, expressing how her views on same-sex love have changed after spending time with the couple inside the house.
'I adore you both. Because of your love for each other, you are both truly blessed. I thought I would never be able to accept you both. I come from a background where girl-and-girl love could never be taken seriously. But now that I see you both together, you're just like a normal couple.
Your love is adorable. I'm going emotional,' Sariga told Adhila.
Sariga's honesty visibly moved Adhila, and fans praised the emotional exchange for its sincerity and impact.
Adhila and Noora, who gained attention through their legal battle for the right to live together as a couple, are both professionals working as cybersecurity analysts. Outside their careers, they've also built a strong presence as social media content creators, frequently sharing candid vlogs about their relationship and daily life.
Their entry into the Bigg Boss house was met with a wave of mixed reactions online, from overwhelming support and admiration to criticism and trolling.
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June 18: Chaotic first few hours in England. Land at London Heathrow, the ticket shows a connection from Terminal TN for the trip to Leeds, the venue for the first Test. The travel person back home insists it's a flight. No one at Heathrow agrees. 'There's no Terminal TN here, unless Hogwarts School has started air services for overseas wizards,' jokes a witty Black Customs lady. 'Maybe, it's a bus'. A 20-something Indian at the bus reception solves the case. It's a train from King's Cross. By the way, King's Cross has a platform 9 ¾ – fictional point from where Harry and wizards go to school. The Customs lady wasn't totally wrong. June 19: Leeds has the Yorkshire Cricket Club – an institution of great legacy and stickler of tradition. As luck would have it, I get a chance to speak to two cricketing giants – Sachin Tendulkar and Cheteshwar Pujara. They both played for the north England club and share memories. 'One needed to wear formals and leather shoes when you landed up at the ground before the match. At the ground you change to whites and store the formals in the locker,' informs Pujara. Tendulkar chuckles when reminded of the summer of 1992 when he became the first cricketer not born in Yorkshire to play for the county. You tell the master the Pujara formal wear story and he laughs more. 'When Pujara played for Yorkshire, he was in his late 20s, I was just 19 years old … and putting on the Yorkshire blazer each morning was new to me. There was also a tie to be put. So what I did was I tied the knot and kept it like that for my entire stint … I ensured that whenever I put it on the knot would not break.' June 22: Rishabh Pant hits his tumbling shot, also does a handspring, a basic floor routine gymnastics to celebrate his hundred. England is head-over-heels in love with his behind the stump falling shot – they call it roly-poly sweep. It proved to be a roller coaster series for him. June 23: There is a church, not far from the local Jama Masjid, that has a neatly carpentered wooden box. The front is a wooden frame with glass with lovely leaves painted on it. This is the Little Free Library with two shelves of about a foot long. There is a dictionary and few pulp-fiction paperbacks. June 24: Ben Duckett reverse sweeps England to victory. The England opener has strong wrists, he played hockey as a child. There is an endearing story about Duckett's mom and her risk-taking, reverse sweeping son. She once went for a Duckett game and was seated in the stands. A guy behind her would say, 'He isn't going to last long .. he will get out to one of his reverse sweeps'. At Leed's he didn't, he completed his 100 with three reverse sweeps. England win because of Duckett's knock. It is unlikely, Duckett's mom would be hearing reverse-sweep taunts from fans any more. England 1, India 0. June 25: Bradford is also called Bradfordistan. It mostly has those with Pakistan roots. 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This went as – Collect the building key from the box outside, use combination 1249. Enter the building, go to the first floor and return left. Pick another key from under the doormat and enter the flat. Place the key back under the mat as the cleaners need it. Go to the kitchen, under the sink is another key box. Use combination 3434 to collect the key for your room. Phew. The most difficult part – crawling under the sink, trying to get the sequence of code right in complete darkness using a phone torch. June 30: Birmingham is buzzing, certainly not for the Test but Black Sabbath's farewell gig. It's called Back to the Beginning. Check with the friendly corner shop lady at the till, if it's possible to get tickets. 'Yeah … sure' – she says sarcastically. Stick to cricket. Life's cruel in a few weeks time, see a ticker on a television in a shop that announces Ozzy Osbourne's death. Beginning and End weren't too far. 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Next to them are Indian fans wearing not India's whites but the white-ball blue. It's a stunning contrast. It takes all types to fill a cricket stadium. July 11: Lord's stadium arena is a busy place with a lot happening. There is a museum to see, there are food courts that sell cheese toasties, coffees and even strawberries and cream. There's the WG Grace statue in a small garden-type area where fans sit on benches to discuss cricket. A new addition is the games section. There is one where about 10 tennis balls hang from the wooden circle. You need to stand below as balls drop suddenly and randomly. Grown up men take the challenge as a crowd watches them. They fail, they get embarrassed. July 12: It's the last over before lunch. KL is in his 90s, his partner Rishabh Pant wants that his mate has the medal as a centurion. Pant takes off for a run and is found out of his crease. At the samosa stall that's India's good old Bajaj three-wheeler, they can't stop talking about who was to blame. July 13: It is late at night, only a Persian eating place open. They have rice with a layer of saffron with baingan stuffed in. It's one of the meals of the series. England 2, India 1 July 15: Travel to Guildford to meet Shoaib Bashir's one-time captain Olly Birts. You ask him about him getting Siraj's wicket while bowling with a fractured finger, he tells you about him losing his teeth while taking a catch in a club game. July 16: Take a short trip to Bristol. It is the place where the mysterious painter Banksy lived and for cricket tourists it is where Ben Stokes punched the living daylights out of a few pesky men outside a bar. Visit the Stokes pilgrimage place but the staff there can get a whiff of inquisitive reporters from a mile. Beer is all that you end up with. July 18: Move to Kingsbury, the very Gujarati part of London. 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Chandra Jain's ‘River Weaves'
In the latest season of the hit comedy drama The Bear, Alpana Singh, a Chicago-based sommelier of Indian origin appearing as herself, rather poetically describes a bottle of wine as 'a liquid snapshot of time'. The wine, she explains, captures 'everything that was happening for that year, what the summer was like, what the rains were like'. A Banarasi textile isn't very different; just tweak the single year to millennia. If Banaras is a city older than history, as Mark Twain said, its handloom weaves are not too far behind. Among India's most storied textiles — as also among the most revered and most recorded — they contain multiple layers of history, heritage, innovation, reinvention. They tell of ancient trade with China, where its mainstay mulberry silk came from, they showcase Mughal influences in their brocade motifs, and they talk of changing tastes as pastels and subtle zari gave way to bright wedding-ready colours and all-over jangla (from jungle) work at the turn of the century. That was the time, in fact, that the Lucknow-born Chandra Jain turned away from the Banarasi altogether, despite an in-born love for Indian textiles. 'What was available simply didn't match up to the saris I'd grown up seeing in my family,' she says. 'Then, in 2002, I happened to meet a master weaver in Varanasi. I was carrying some old samples and I asked him why it was impossible to find work of that quality. He told me there was no demand for fine Banarasis at commensurate price points.' At the same time, she learnt, the weaving community was more than ready to take up the challenge of recreating work of older standards — as long as they didn't have to be responsible for marketing it. Though Jain had no plans of building a brand, she couldn't let the opportunity pass. Over the years, she has taken her small, high-end revival collections to select clients all over the country under the label Kimkhab. Next week, Jain's two-decade-old passion for the Banarasi finds expression in River Weaves, a first-of-its-kind exhibition in her adopted home, Bengaluru. Designed by Siddhartha Das Studio, the display promises all the gravitas of a museum and none of its stuffiness; instead, the focus will be on storytelling, tracing the journey of the silk from the cocoon to the loom. 'And that's partly the reason why we are opening this in Bengaluru — after all, Karnataka is India's largest producer of silk, and the origin of the country's own silk route,' says the septuagenarian. Going back to the original To be installed across 2,000 at the Bangalore International Centre, the exhibition will comprise several broad, visually strong sections. Using specially commissioned art, photographs and literature, River Weaves will look to recreate the entire ecosystem of the Banarasi weave to build awareness of the months of effort on the part of multiple people that go into the finished product. 'My master weaver once counted 40 people who contributed to the yarn before his karigars even touched it,' says Jain, a long-time executive committee member of the Crafts Council of Karnataka. Of the various sections of River Weaves — the exhibition is dedicated to the Ganga, on whose banks the craft has thrived for centuries — the one that is sure to draw the cognoscenti is the showcase of natural dyes. Jain worked with natural dyes expert Jagada Rajappa to re-introduce colours extracted from sources such as manjishtha (Indian madder), indigo, onion peels and henna. 'These were the original shades of Banarasis, before the demand grew for chemically produced colours,' she says. Saris that stand out The most impactful saris are the emblematic ones — that we all associate with Banarasi brocades — as well those made with natural dyes, according to Siddhartha Das and Chiara Nath of Siddhartha Das Studio. The insignia for the show is derived from a gorgeous grey and cream jangla jaal sari featuring a shikargah. 'This type of scene is amongst the most recognisable of Banarasi patterns. It spreads across the surface with movement and narrative, and when worn, it almost feels like the forest is coming alive, with gazelles overpowered by lions, falcons swooping down on prey, and with horses, huntsmen, elephants, musketeers and peacocks,' says Nath. 'What we also really appreciate about this piece is that it appears in other formats such as wall hangings and tapestries. And of course it is widely represented in Mughal miniature paintings – a genre very close to our hearts. Then there is the celebrated rangkat sari, from which we derived the cover art for the monograph. It is characterised by alternating sections of many colours, and requires the use of several sets of weft threads. These 'waves' are interlocked with brocading in zari. They appear to be almost appliquéd in place. Finally, the Bahramasa collection is very close to our hearts because it is made entirely from natural dyes. We found the hues stunning and the saris wonderfully contemporary.' Seated in her impeccably decorated living room in Indiranagar, Jain unfurls a lustrous peachy-pink silk with a narrow border and a beautiful pallu with real silver zari. The colour is derived from lac, she informs me. It's a shade in a Banarasi that I last saw in my mum's wardrobe, in a sari dating back probably to the 1960s. The age-old discontinuous kadwa zari butis (one of the two principal techniques of Banarasi weaves, these extra-weft motifs are woven individually) float across the body of the sari with a three-dimensional effect (compared to, say, the flat outcome of jamdani, also an extra-weft weaving technique). The underside is as neat as the front. Passing the parcel Even as I pore over the exquisite workmanship of the saris — perfect paisleys in one, a strip of jangla work in another, beautiful koniyas (corner motifs, a speciality of Banarasis) in a third — I wonder how to square Jain's revival work with, say, the popularity of the Banarasi sari, as evidenced in social media (#dilhaiBanarasi was a viral trend on Instagram for several years till its leader went off the platform). Jain acknowledges that the Banarasi, by and large, is much better off than many other weaves in the country: its status as wedding or special occasion wear, and its success in light, easier-to-drape and translucent fabrics like kora and organza have found takers among new sari patrons. 'But unless people know what the craftsmen are capable of, this kind of fine work will die out,' she says. Jain sees herself as a custodian of this living, breathing textile legacy, 'passing the parcel' of the heritage weave to the next generation. It is in this spirit that she tells her weavers to feel free to share the revival designs with other customers, and hopes to take River Weaves to other cities in India and maybe even abroad. 'These are not my designs,' she says emphatically. 'These contain centuries of thought.' River Weaves opens at the Bangalore International Centre on August 14. Alongside the exhibition, Kimkhab will present saris for sale, priced between ₹20,000 and ₹2,00,000. The writer and editor is based in Bengaluru.
