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Aishwarya Kapoor

The Dupatta as Workload: What It Really Costs to Wear Two Metres All Day

By the third time you stop mid-sentence to pull the dupatta back onto your shoulder, you have already stopped noticing that you stopped. That is the thing about this particular garment. Its management becomes so automatic it disappears into the body, filed under habit rather than effort.

The Physics of Two Metres on a Moving Body

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