Varun Gandhi may not have inherited the legacy of his Gandhi-Nehru family, but his bride, Yamini Roy, will get married in a pink and gold brocade Benarasi sari that belonged to his grandmother ...

Jawaharlal Nehru crafted the cotton saree as a heartfelt gesture for his daughter, Indira Gandhi, to wear on her wedding day. Decades later, Indira Gandhi, in turn, presented this cherished ...

"Indira was generous in the wedding presents she gave her new daughter-in-law: twenty-one expensive sarees, two sets of gold jewellery, a lehnga, and perhaps the most precious of all, a khadi sari ...

Indira Gandhi put all these to great use, ... wears one of her grandmother’s checked Chettinads or when Varun Gandhi’s bride Yamini wore a restored pink khadi sari for her wedding.

Indira Gandhi in a purple sari at the 1966 White House banquet hosted by the then US President, Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife. (Below) Priyanka, wearing the same sari, and Robert Vadra at the ...

Varun Gandhi may not have inherited the legacy of his Gandhi-Nehru family, but his bride, Yamini Roy, will get married in a pink and gold brocade Benarasi sari that belonged to his grandmother ...

Yamini, who is from Shantiniketan in West Bengal and has studied in Delhi's St Stephens College and in France, wore a pink sari, which had been gifted by Indira to her daughter-in-law Maneka, 40 ...