Innholdsfortegnelse for December 4, 2017 i India Today

We behave rather strangely for a country acclaimed as the world’s largest democracy. We ban books and films before even reading or seeing them. In October 1988, India became the first country in the world to ban the import of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, within nine days of its release in the UK and much before the rest of the world woke up to the perceived slight to Muslims for what they considered to be blasphemous references. We had, unfortu nately, a role to play in it, carrying an exclusive interview with Rushdie and some excerpts from his book in the September 15, 1998, issue of india today. The initial attacks on the book came from the late Janata Party MP Syed Shahabuddin who alleged that the book was…

Speaking on the occasion of ‘World Toilet Day’, on November 19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said ending open defecation would be the “best gift” for Indian women. The Swachh Bharat website shows considerable progress is being made towards that goal, with millions of toilets being built and thousands of villages declared open defecation free. Despite the impressive statistics on display, a new report by the UK-based NGO WaterAid on “the state of the world’s toilets” shows just how far India still has to go. The report “explores how the lack of decent toilets around the world prevents women and girls from fulfilling their potential”. While Ethiopia has the highest percentage of people in the world without access to toilets, India still has the highest number. 732.2 MILLION INDIANS WITH NO…

Seemingly self-assured, absconding tycoon VIJAY MALLYA snapped at reporters outside a London courthouse who dared ask why he wasn’t returning home to clear his name. Moments before this, he’d been insisting on his innocence, that charges of financial chicanery to the tune of Rs 10,000 crore were “baseless and fabricated”. Mallya has told the court that he’s afraid for his life in India and that prison conditions are inhuman. His trial is set for December 4 and he has reason to be confident. Though a treaty has been in place for 25-odd years, only one person, accused in the burning alive of 23 Muslims in the 2002 Gujarat riots, has been extradited to India from the UK. It was in October 2016, and he didn’t contest his extradition.…

As high commissioner, Raghavan participated in historic meetings. Yet he has resisted being one-sided or didactic The description of Pakistan as ‘people next door’, though laden with irony, fascinated me. Yet I had not compulsively reached out for the book. I had nurtured a certain image of T.C.A. Raghavan in the course of my personal interactions with him when he was the high commissioner to Pakistan. He was equipped with a certain mellowness, a deep sensibility, quite different from other pundits who cannot conceal prejudice, a view quite at variance with the image that The People Next Door conjures up. What if Raghavan too emerges hard as nails on the subject of Pakistan? It is just as well that the books editor has imposed on me this fait accompli. Reading…

Whimsical scheduling/ cancelling of House sessions by the government of the day is a challenge to the primacy of Parliament The delay in announcing the date for the commencement of the winter session of Parliament has caused great concern. The session generally starts in the third week of November. Parliament rules require that the dates for the House session be announced 15 days in advance to give MPs ample time to come to Delhi. With no such announcement made for this year’s winter session at the time of writing (21 November), it is most likely that the normally month-long session will be shortened, if not scrapped. Rivals of the BJP have raised serious objections to the delay. The reaction of political parties is on expected lines. The general allegation is…

The Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) has always said that its main objective is to secure quotas for the Patel community. And to that end it was prepared to take the Congress’s support. But it all seemed to unravel after the Congress announced its first list of 77 candidates late on November 19. Political considerations evidently took over as Congress initially gave PAAS just three of the seven seats it had agreed to (a total of 20 Patel candidates have got tickets so far). And two of these went to candidates without the approval of the outfit’s leadership. PAAS co-convenor Dinesh Bhambhania was livid. “We will defeat the Congress. It has stabbed us in the back,” he declared. Enra ged activists attacked the Congress office in Surat on Monday where…

The Karni Sena was founded in 2006 by Lokendra Singh Kalvi, son of the late Kalyan Singh Kalvi, the former Union cabinet minister who led a massive Rajput agitation against the Sati ban following the Roop Kanwar episode in 1987. Lokendra, however, has failed to match his father’s stature. He tried his luck in politics but lost elections twice, and has been in and out of the BJP and Congress. He is now with the BJP although he had once led a violent agitation against Vasundhara Raje in 2003. The 62-year-old spent a few years in the wilderness in the late ’90s and early 2000s when he launched, along with Devi Singh Bhatti, a powerful BJP MLA and Rajput leader from Bikaner, a pro-reservation agitation for the economically weak of…

JAYASIWROTE PADMAWAT TOCELEBRATEHUMANLOVE, LUXURIATING IN ALL ITS FACETS—DESIRE, WANDERING, JEALOUSY, SEPARATION, SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE MALIK MUHAMMAD JAYASI BELONGED to the Chishtia order of Sufis. His miracle-legends have been part of popular memory. The most stunning miracle he performed—the Padmawat—has been around physically for five centuries. Jayasi composed his magnum opus in 1540 in Awadhi, its manuscripts were mostly found written in the Persian script. Taking the legend of Padmini from the oral traditions of Rajputana, Jayasi created a fascinating texture of legend, history and mythology (Hindu as well as Islamic), drawing liberally from his vast knowledge and life experiences. Padmawat was apparently an instant hit in the literary circles of north India, and was also translated into Bengali in the sixteenth century itself. Thus, to Jayasi goes the credit of…

SAUDI ARABIA SCALING UP TENSIONS WITH LEBANON APPEARS TO BE A DESPERATE MOVE AMID SETBACKS TO ITS INTERESTS IN THE REGION Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s arrest of nearly 200 powerful princes, government officials and businessmen on anti-corruption charges has sent shockwaves throughout the kingdom and the Gulf region. The arrests are just the latest—though the most daring—move by 32-year-old bin Salman, known widely by his media acronym MbS, in his meteoric rise to power since his father King Salman ascended the throne in January 2015. In April of that year, MbS was made deputy crown prince, and then further promoted to crown prince in June 2017, replacing the incumbent Mohammed bin Nayef. Bin Nayef was reportedly coerced to resign, placed under house arrest and later left the country,…

Hypertension has a new normal. A blood pressure of 120/ 80 milllimeters of mercury is now normal, but 130/ 80 or higher is now categorised as hypertension. The term ‘pre-hypertension’ is also a thing of the past; people with a systolic measure (the higher reading when the heart is beating) of 120-129 and a diastolic measure (between heart beats, when the heart is at rest) below 80 are now considered as having ‘elevated’ blood pressure. Under the new guidelines of the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology Task Force, those in Stage 1 of high blood pressure (systolic reading of 130-139 or a diastolic of 80-89) should have a 10-year risk assessment of heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular problems. Published in the journal Hypertension and the Journal…

It took Upadhyaya nearly a year to write the opera Unveiled in Beijing on November 13 to a packed Beijing Concert Hall, Upadhyaya’s ambitious 80-minute symphony fuses Western and Chinese styles. It features an elaborate Western choral arrangement, several Chinese classical instruments and a southern Chinese folk singer. It was an impressive debut, despite the fact that Upadhyaya had only a week with the China National Symphony Orchestra in Beijing. “This was the first time such a composition was commissioned by the government of China to a foreigner,” he said after the concert. A naturalised Austrian who has lived in Vienna since 1987 and heads the music department at Vienna University, Upadhyaya has been visiting China regularly for a decade. Over the past two years, he has visited every six…

W hen Elsie Bainbridge arrives at The Bridge at the beginning of Laura Purcell’s first novel, The Silent Companions, the stage is set for an eerie story along the lines of The Others. The Bridge is a ghostly, half-derelict mansion where “everything was dead”. Elsie is dressed, appropriately, in widow’s weeds, and the weather obliges too: “The sky was iron grey, the monotony broken only by crows.” So far, so Gothic. With her elements in place —young widow, hostile villagers, crumbling mansion house, mist and mud and rain—Purcell’s story unfolds in a series of unfortunate events told in three different times. The main story, set in 1865, follows Elsie’s discovery of an antique painted figure in a long-locked attic room—one of the “silent companions” of the book’s title. This sets…

The last we heard of an Indian board game, a prince lost his kingdom and wife. A few millennia down, a new board game spends its time avoiding men likely to wager their wives in a gamble. Released this month, Nashra Balagamwala’s Arranged is a board game on the Indian arranged marriage system. It’s full of unwanted suitors and aunties who’ll thrust those suitors at you. If arranged marriage is not your thing, there are a host of new games that aren’t about building an empire, buying up the city or hunting down Mr X. RISE UP: THE GAME OF PEOPLE AND POWER Time: 1.5 hours, Players: 2-5 Play against the ‘System’ and get a movement going at campuses, workplaces, the inter-web, farms, in the culture space using tokens from…

Q. So, you just rode the Red Bull Tour Bus. Do your best ideas come in the studio or do you like to venture out of the city to be inspired? It is not feasible every time to go out. When I do, I go to Goa mostly. It’s the most chilled-out place in India. It’s like getting away from all the madness. You need silence and space in your life. Q. One instrument you miss the most in Hindi music. The horn section. There aren’t many people, in Bombay at least, who do it. It’s kind of vanishing but I love it. Q. If you could go back in time, which musical decade would you choose? The 1970s was the best ever. I don’t think it can be recreated,…

The Rosogolla Wars A couple of weeks ago, Mamata Banerjee tweeted of her pride in West Bengal winning GI status for the rosogolla. Many Bengalis used her proclamation of triumph as an excuse to post pictures of themselves swallowing spongy, sugary, white balls by the dozen. Except, of course, this was no victory, simply recognition that West Bengal had its own variation of a dessert popular in various parts of India. You can see why geographical indication is necessary for products whose qualities are entirely defined by the place in which they are made. But GI cannot tell us whether the rosogolla belongs to West Bengal or Odisha. It belongs, of course, to both. Has the sniping between the two states over the sweet’s origins been so bitter because the…

Environment minister Harsh Vardhan was at the UN climate change conference in Bonn between November 6 and 17 when the noxious smog over Delhi made international headlines for the second consecutive year. He had to play a delicate balancing act between sounding the alarm over climate change in Germany, assuring the countries present of the leading role India intends to play in tackling the issues, and playing down panic over the extreme unhealthiness of Delhi’s air. The meeting as such was a sort of preliminary discussion on the obligations outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement. From 2020, countries will be called to account for their pledges. India’s emissions are relatively low, per capita, but its success in combating pollution is essential to the global effectiveness of the agreement. 2°C RISE…

A PARTY SPOKESPERSON INSISTED THERE WAS “NOTHING WRONG IF STUDENTS WERE SHOWN GOOD WORK” Ostensibly organised to “showcase themes that flow from Hindu spiritual genius, ancient literature and lifestyle”, a five-day fair in Jaipur by the Hindu Spiritual & Service Foundation (HSSF), a Chennai-based organisation linked to the RSS and whose patrons include well-known economist S. Gurumurthy, ended on November 20 with many red faces in the Vasundhara Raje government here. Pamphlets distributed at the event, to which government school children were bussed in—reportedly on the instructions of minister of state for primary education Vasudev Devnani—included bizarre prescriptions on, among others, how Hindu girls can tackle ‘love jihad’. Volunteers manning a stall put up by rightwing outfits Bajrang Dal-Vishwa Hindu Parishad freely handed out material that asked Hindu families to…

CHANDY’S FOES IN THE CONGRESS ARE SAID TO BE HAVING A BIT OF A CHUCKLE AT HIS TROUBLES Former Congress chief minister Oommen Chandy and several of his colleagues in Kerala’s former United Democratic Front government are in trouble, with the Justice G. Sivarajan Commission handing down a damning verdict against them. Instituted by Chandy himself in 2013 to probe the infamous ‘Solar Scam’, the commission has relied rather heavily on the testimonies of Saritha S. Nair, a con woman facing 33 cases of cheating, and her partner Biju Radhakrishnan. The ‘entrepreneurs’ had duped scores of potential investors through Team Solar, their energy firm. In four volumes adding up to 1,073 pages, the 75-year-old former high court judge has put together a vivid description of the systemic failures in Chandy’s…

OBJECTION The film has a dream sequence in which Padmavati romances Khilji REALITY There is no such scene in the film OBJECTION Padmavati dances in full court and shows her waist in the ‘Ghoomar’ song REALITY It’s not correct as she dances in front of her husband and some women in the zenana OBJECTION Bhansali may show a different version to the protesters and may show a different version to the CBFC REALITY It’s most likely a ploy to ensure that the movie is never released OBJECTION Dawood Ibrahim has financed the film REALITY There is no evidence to suggest this OBJECTION It may glamourise Khilji, the villain in the story REALITY Any movie glamourises every character. Khilji was a powerful ruler and a victor but the movie shows him…

In a falling interest rate scenario, retirees have to look beyond investment options like fixed deposits and small saving schemes. Guaranteed, regular returns and safety of capital is the attraction here for them, but with deposits rates at a record low, looking at alternatives has become imperative. If one is willing to take a bit of risk, there is a tax-efficient alternative that mutual funds (MFs) offer for slightly conservative investors. Let’s see how this category—equity savings schemes or equity income schemes—can supplement your income. WHAT ARE THEY? These are hybrid mutual funds of a newer kind. Unlike traditional hybrid funds that invest only in equity and debt, these funds invest in debt, equity and equity derivatives. They use equity derivatives for arbitrage opportunities (the simultaneous purchase and sale of…

DELHI-BASED DESIGNER David Abraham, one half of the Abraham & Thakore label, says he remembers his Syrian Christian grandmother changing out of her white chatta munda into richly coloured Kanjeevarams on special occasions. “I remember in particular a beautiful sapphire blue sari with a self border that she would wear,” he says. It was the question of identity that made him experiment with the sari—cut it, style it, reinvent it. For Abraham & Thakore, who have made both stitched and unstitched versions of the sari, it is a long piece of untouched fabric, which could represent a regional culture, could be a uniform for work, or even a metaphor for steamy sex. And as the fashion weeks enter another Autumn/ Winter cycle, more saris, draped in unconventional ways, are expected…

Netflixfilms Okja, First They Killed My Father and The Meyerowitz Stories will all vie for Oscar glory this year. But the newly released Mudbound isthestreaming giant’s best shot at a win. Co-written and directed by Dee Rees, the story of two families living in a racially segregated town in rural Mississippi in the 1940s is rewarding both in scale and emotion. At the end of World War II, young men from both families return home. But neither the privileged white captain Jamie (Garrett Hedlund) nor the black sergeant Ronsel (Jason Mitchell)—thrown together by their common experience of war—is happy with what he finds. Jamie finds his elder brother Henry (Joe Clark) struggling with the farm and his family. And Ronsel has trouble readjusting to his second-class status in segregated America…

NEWTON India’s entry to the Oscars is a must-watch. Featuring pitch-perfect performances, it’s a political satire that makes you appreciate India’s vibrant democracy even as it exposes its flaws. Amazon Prime SYAAHI In this National Award-winning short, a child (Himanshu Bhandari) finds himself in a predicament of Iranian film proportions: track down his father’s novel manuscripts in a bazaar. YouTube GODLESS After David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh joins the Netflix bandwagon with a Western in which Jeff Daniels is a menacing outlaw in search of his traitorous protege…

Austenistan Edited by Laaleen Sukhera Bloomsbury, Rs 350 Did you know there’s a Jane Austen Society of Pakistan (JASP)? This anthology of short stories inspired by Jane Austen’s novels and set in contemporary Pakistan is written by members of the JASP. It’s a sparkling world that doesn’t bother with the Pakistan you see on the news. In Austenistan, the partying is constant, there’s romance in the air and booze is always at hand. Smart, sassy and essentially a pack of mini Mills & Boons, with tall, fair, handsome heroes who have a thing for hero ines perched on Jimmy Choos. Trust No Aunty Maria Qamar Simon and Schuster, Rs 599 Maria Qamar is better known as @hatecopy on Instagram, and with art that’s a love child of Amar Chitra Katha…

1 FINE FEAST If you are tired of the pub-grub-and-booze kind of vibes in Connaught Place, this latest entrant might just be the answer to your fine dine cravings. Priyank Sukhija's first outlet in the city opened 18 years ago in Chankyapuri, and now Lazeez Affaire has opened its doors in CP as well. Go here when you're in a mood to feast your tastebuds to huge portions of sumptuous Mughlai and Indian fare in a contemporary and stylish setting. Our Picks Akhrot paneer seekh, which even carnivores must try after digging into the delicious lasooni murg tikka. In the main course, don't miss the usual suspects—think dal makhani, chicken tikka paneer masala and the others. Meal for two Rs 1,600 At K 12, Outer Circle, Connaught Place n By…

“We have perfect policies, but implementation is a problem. We have weak deterrents.” SUNITA NARAIN Environmentalist At a time when #cleanair and #righttobreathe have become the most popular hashtags on India’s social media scene, environmentalist Sunita Narain talks to Prachi Bhuchar about her new book and a blueprint for a clean, green future. Q. What makes Conf licts of Interest different from your previous books? I’ve never written a book like this. I’ve always written on issues, but this one recounts my environment journey. It’s a luxury for someone like me to write so reflectively, and it’s intensely personal. It takes the issues of environment to a general audience, explains the journey and also focuses on solutions. The book is also a blueprint for a green…

2004: Just before his 34th birthday, Rahul contests the Lok Sabha election from father Rajiv’s old seat Amethi. Congress shocks ruling BJP 2007: Made general secretary in charge of the Youth Congress and National Students’ Union of India. Promises to reform youth politics—introduces YC elections and drives membership to unprecedented levels 2008: In a speech about farmer suicides, Rahul tells Parliament about Kalavati, a widow in Maharashtra’s drought-ridden Vidarbha region. The speech makes national headlines, as reporters beat a path to Kalavati’s door 2009: Retains Amethi in general elections. Stays the night in a Dalit home, eating, bathing and sleeping out in the open. Begins Bharat darshan, speaking at 125 rallies in six weeks 2011: Joins farmers in Bhatta Parsaul village on May 11 protesting the forcible acquisition of their…

Ivanka Trump’s Secret Service detail has their Indian counterparts in a tizzy. US President Donald Trump’s advisor and daughter is leading her country’s delegation to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad between November 28 and 30. The Secret Service has insisted she travel in a 20-vehicle convoy, unusually large even for a VVIP. It has also demanded that stores and homes near the Westin Hotel where she will be staying, along with the Falaknuma Palace, where Prime Minister Modi will host a reception on November 28, be shut down. But what caused most amusement was a US request that the Indian police on her security detail not carry weapons because Ivanka is a US Secret Service protectee. Predictably , it was turned down. ARMS AND THE LADY Director-general (acquisitions) Smita…

FORMER DGP PRAVEEN DIKSHIT SUGGESTS THAT NOT EVERY CUSTODIAL DEATH IS A MURDER From the beginning, there was clearly something fishy about robbery suspect Anil Kothale’s death in the Maharashtra Police’s custody in Sangli on November 7. A subsequent probe ordered by inspector general of police (Kolhapur range) Vishwas Nangre-Patil revealed that the man, accused of stealing a mobile phone, was brutally murdered, allegedly by the five policemen assigned to question him. The probe found that subinspector Yuvraj Kamte was assisted by constables Anil Lad, Arun Tone, Nazir Mulla and Rahul Shingate in the brutal killing. Kothale apparently died as a result of sustained beatings and torture. The cops later transported his body to Amboli ghat in neighbouring Sindhudurg district and burnt it to destroy the evidence. While Kamte initially…

Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal may have an easygoing son-of-the-soil image among the people, but that’s not true among his officials. Since he took charge in May 2016, 315 of them, including an IAS officer and several heads of autonomous bodies, have been arrested on corruption charges. In the last 18 months, eight major scams have been unearthed, including the high-profile Assam Public Service Commission cash-for-jobs scandal. Among the arrested in this are Sunayana Aidew, niece of Rajen Gohain, Union MoS for railways, and Rajarshi Sen Deka, son of ex-Congress minister Nilamani Sen Deka. “We promised corruption-free governance and we will deliver on that,” says Sonowal, who reviews the cases with senior police and other government officials every fortnight. On November 7, the CM’s vigilance cell arrested Ranjit Gogoi, director, information…

Udta Punjab (2016) The film’s depiction of Punjabi men being addicted to drugs led to protests by the Shiv Sena PK (2014) Hindu groups considered it blasphemy against Hindu gods and gurus Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela (2013) The title apparently hurt Hindu sentiments as the name was based on Hindu mythology. An FIR was filed against Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh for the same Viswaroopam (2013) The Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagham claimed the Kamal Haassan film represented the community as a group of terrorists. Wanted a ban Kadal (2013) Protests from Christian groups. The Indian Christian Democratic Party wanted some scenes deleted, claimed it was offensive to Christians Aarakshan (2011) The film focused on the caste-based reservation system in India. Was banned in UP, Punjab and…

EXPERT VIEW “Holding the policy till maturity entitles the policyholder to benefits in full, payable at maturity with bonus, if any, and death benefit in case of demise during the policy tenure.” Do you know what happens to your insurance policy when you stop paying premium? Does it continue to offer insurance cover? Abruptly stopping payment of premium because you are unhappy with the policy or facing a financial crunch—without considering the consequences—is unwise. Here’s a lowdown on the options available should you wish to discontinue a traditional life insurance policy, and how to go about it. TRADITIONAL PLANS A traditional life insurance policy is a protection-cum-savings plan. It assures the policyholder a payout sum along with bonus on maturity of the policy. Unlike unit-linked plans, which have the option…

Added sugars are the undisputed villains of a host of medical conditions, be it obesity and metabolic syndrome, Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, dental plaque and cavities, or even heart disease. Health surveys estimate that most adults get 15 per cent of their calories from added sugars alone. If you can’t get rid of them entirely, you can certainly reduce added sugars in your diet, advise diabetes specialists SAY NO TO SUGAR Reduce its consumption, beginning with foods which are its most obvious sources like sweets, bakery products and sugary beverages Avoid buying and consuming processed foods where the label mentions ingredients with the suffix ‘..ose’ Opt for wholegrain options over white rice and white flour, which have simple carbs that can be…

FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER Angelina Jolie’s drama about the Khmer Rouge has already been selected as Cambodia’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film. OKJA This heartwarming fantasy film was a sensation at Cannes. It could earn Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho a Best Director nod. THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES The story of three adult siblings and their difficult relationships with their artist father, this ensemble comedy could get Adam Sandler a nod for Best Supporting Actor.…

1 SUNDAYS WITH CHITRA & CHAITALI Actress Isheeta Ganguly merges the Chitra of RabindranathTagore’s Chitrangada with theChitra ofMahabharata in this English play. Exploring women’s issues, albeit in a light vein, it has music by renowned composer Pritam and opening narration by actor Ira Dubey 2 MARA ASATYA NA PRAYOGO: MY EXPERIMENTS WITH LIES Directed by renowned actor Pritesh Sodha, this Gujarati monologue is a tongue-in-cheek look at the degeneration of moral values in contemporary society 3 SHABD LEELA The Hindi play, directed by actor K.K. Raina and adapted by actor-singer Ila Arun, will have actors Rajeshwari Sachdev, Varun Badola, Rahul Bagga and Abhishek Pandey read out portions of author Dharamveer Bharti’sworks suchas Kanupriya, Andha Yug etal 4 DR ANANDIBAI: LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE Veteran director Manoj Shah chronicles the struggles and…

Q When did you first encounter the sea? I was six. The immensity of the waves crashing in the sea, to me it was a metaphor for the intensity of human feelings. My sister was scared but I was happy. Q Why did you write Sea of Pain? I was pained by the fate of the Syrian refugee children. The sea had become their tomb. You saw the bodies on the shore and I recreated the sea on the stage when it throws up the bodies. Q How do you see India? I first came to India in 2004 for the Kolkata Book Festival. It is a fascinating country. From a boat, I saw the sunrise in Benares. The cremations were something that had amazing strength, almost an act of…

Payal Singhal LABEL PAYAL SINGHAL Handloom silk and brocade and fabrics like mul, chanderi and organza are big trends for wedding wear. Off-shoulder crop cholis, strapped cholis, full circle high-waisted lehengas, tiered lehengas, dhoti pants and cape kurtas are trending high in bridal couture. Unconventional colours such as coral and bottle green, cranberry red, purple and even black would be a delight to spot on a bride. Confidence and knowing what her likes and dislikes are is definitely something I see in more brides today. She wants to look beautiful on her wedding day but also be who she is and marry a bit of tradition with fashion and modernity. She will pick colours and silhouettes that she is comfortable with and speak to her personality and also want to…