Author: Bisman Kaur, Of Counsel, Remfry & Sagar
India writes in over a hundred languages (22 are recognised as major languages) and speaks in many more voices (dialects). It is home to over 700 different tribes, every major religion in the world, a supreme variety in cuisines and crafts, to some of the world’s largest cities and also remote regions with almost no people. In these ways, India is an exemplar of diversity, which is strongly manifest in its indigenous arts and fashion. But gaps do exist, which the current global focus on diversity and inclusion (D&I) serves to highlight. This article looks through the prism of fashion to explore facets of the current D&I conversation in India.