Wear India on your sleeve

Updated On: 18 June, 2012 08:29 AM IST | | Dhara Vora

Fashion and Indian scripts have been making sweeping statements for centuries. Now, as our celebrities and designers flaunt these traditional designs across the catwalk and arclights, we are seeing a revival of sorts of Indian fonts, languages and scripts. Dhara Vora looks at this wonderful print revolution that's looking good to put India on the world map

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For ages, artists all over the world have appreciated the beauty of Indian scripts and fonts. Be it David Beckham and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine sporting tattoos in Devanagari or people wearing Hare Rama Hare Krishna-printed apparel. And now, literature and fashion seem to have merged where various scripts of Indian languages have been used as inspiration on fabric.

Singer Usha Uthup wears a sari with her Bengali song printed on it