SIX YEARS AGO

Chaahat Batra stepped foot into the National Institute of Fashion Technology Campus with mixed feelings of excitement and anxiousness.

This was the first time she was coming out of her home in a small town in South India. She had passed the three-level entrance exams and secured a merit seat admission in NIFT.

Chaahat had inherited her interest in dressmaking from her mother, who was a local tailor in their town until her untimely death a year ago.

Life had never been smooth for her. They were always on the move, never staying in one place for more than two years. Society never let them. After her...