South India offers quite a few options for shopping. While the hand-woven silk of South is famous, one can buy a lot of artifacts too. Traditional handicrafts, coir products, handcrafted jewellery ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Unlike any other fabric, muga silk has a naturally lustrous gold sheen. It comes from the cocoons of muga moths that feed on som trees. A saree made with muga silk ...

The current crop of “neo-realistic” south Indian films has no space for a vamp oozing sex — like the role of a seductive tea shop owner that Silk marked her arrival with in the 1979 Tamil film Vandi ...

From Assamese muga silk to jasmine oil used in luxury perfumes ... stories behind some of the most expensive products made in India. Our first stop is Amritsar, where a factory makes the only ...