46 | revivalists
Silk Route
Sisters Aanchal and Akshita Sagar returned to India from Europe on a quest to revive the heritage Banarasi sari and make it relevant again
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he last thing the Sagar sisters had imagined for their careers was reviving an ancient weave. The management post-graduates found their way from Europe to the bylanes of Varanasi, where they now work with weavers to help revitalize the her-
itage craft. And they can’t imagine doing anything else. Born and brought up in Ambala, Haryana, Aanchal, the older of the duo, studied economics at Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi before heading to France to do her MSc in management. She then joined globFebruary 2018