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with underfur-so-fine – approximately one-sixth of the human hair – the Chiru’s pelt is highly coveted for weaving shawls which drape the so-called cognoscenti crowd of the society. Procured not by shearing but killing, the wool of a minimum of three antelopes is required to create the softest and warmest of winter wraps costing an average of five lakhs! Given its disconcerting status in CITES pointing to its numbered few existence, it would not take rocket science to prove that the plight of the weaver community, who the honourable Member of Parliament sure means well for, would relapse to no better than it is now, were she to have her way. Says fashion designer Jattinn Kochhar, “Though I feel that the shawls, now in the heirlooms of some, must be preserved as precious souvenirs, there is just no fashion which mandates such merciless bloodshed.”
It might thus do well to get our facts right before the ministration of such self-defeating drills.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
Bestowed
with underfur-so-fine – approximately one-sixth of the human hair – the Chiru’s pelt is highly coveted for weaving shawls which drape the so-called cognoscenti crowd of the society. Procured not by shearing but killing, the wool of a minimum of three antelopes is required to create the softest and warmest of winter wraps costing an average of five lakhs! Given its disconcerting status in CITES pointing to its numbered few existence, it would not take rocket science to prove that the plight of the weaver community, who the honourable Member of Parliament sure means well for, would relapse to no better than it is now, were she to have her way. Says fashion designer Jattinn Kochhar, “Though I feel that the shawls, now in the heirlooms of some, must be preserved as precious souvenirs, there is just no fashion which mandates such merciless bloodshed.”It might thus do well to get our facts right before the ministration of such self-defeating drills.
For Complete IIPM Article, Click on IIPM Article
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006
An IIPM and Management Guru Professor Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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