The rise of India’s first kink fashion brand

On a hot Friday afternoon in October, Randhir Singh takes a taxi from his apartment in Jaipur, leaving behind the city’s dense textile markets, its labyrinth of pink gates, forts, and palaces. He arrives an hour later in a village on the outskirts of the city—a quieter, paler landscape, where stray dogs and cattle roam wild. Pulling up outside an exposed concrete house, draped with cotton clothes strung over washing lines, Singh greets two men who sit cross-legged outside, methodically staining the leather sleeves of spell books with mahogany dye....... READ MORE.

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