Ritu Beri is a world famous Top Fashion Designer of India. She is a famous Indian fashion designer who needs not much introduction and is a graduate from Delhi University in 1987. She enrolled in the national institute of fashion technology in 1988. Her occupation is fashion designing and she knows English, French and Hindi languages. She is the only Indian fashion designer to be featured in promo style’s magazine ‘Acustyl’, which fore cast fashion trends, worldwide.

Ritu Beri is the author of the personal fashion book, 101 ways to look good. She also serves on the board of Governors at NIFT, and is honorary Parton of the Savera Association, a popular charity involved in improving the lives of Indian women.

Some would even say that she has arrived at the point where she wants to be, however she know she has far to go yet before she reach goal- owed repeatedly, by her past years of success and failures, frustrations and triumphs- to achieve international recognition not merely as an Indian Fashion designer but as a cosmopolitan mainstream designer who can attract every woman.

Ritu Beri is the only Top Indian Fashion designer to head French fashion brand, Scherrer. She imagine a world of color, where creativity runs on the engine of passion, shape, textures and touch in a pattern leads to the creation of fashion. Her inspiration comes from what makes her generation tick. Ritu Beri, the country’s most versatile and dynamic designer is creating a revolution in Indian fashion. She does not restrict herself to fashion alone, but is also devoted to causes-both fashionable and otherwise.

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Ranna Gill is a popular and Top Fashion Designer of India. Having fulfilled a degree from NIFT New Delhi in 1991, Ranna Gill amplified with a bachelor’s degree from fashion institute of technology, New York. Rannas. She starting out with Rohit Khosla afterward goes on to do a stretch with Donna Karan. Her learning curve emerged with her experience at the respected and exacting fashion house of ‘Polo’ Ralph Louren- the woman’s wear division of Madison, New York. Answering the call of her roots, Ranna come back to India, creating a self styled label under her name. Her collection is very modern and versatile and would appeal to both- domestic as well as international buyers.

Ranna Gills Ikat collection is always high in demand, the collection is sure to be an every girl’s wish. Ranna explained her collection to all those present at length; she has designed day wear with ikkat prints specially for working women. One can contentedly wear these clothes for meeting and interview. Ranna encompassing several silhouettes, the clothes include kimonos, wraps, pinafore, pleated empires, dolman sleeved tunics, bibbed jersey tops and clinchwaisted tea long dresses with flounced hems.

All the clothes of Ranna Gill are simple, ready to wear, comfortable and have an international appeal. Primarily colors like, warm red, fuschia, indigo blue, turquoise, muted gold and green, are the selected colors of Ranna Gill. She is considered as tremendous designer in the fashion world.

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Neeta Lulla is one of the Top Fashion Designer of India and is a Bollywood Fashionista. She is nearly as famous as the stars she clothes. She knows the the magic of  transforming one self into a new personality. She is a fabulous Indian fashion designer who brings Bollywood with glamor. She is the bollywood’s award winning popular fashion designer for many film costumes.

Neeta Lulla kept her glamor quotient intact as she took the audience through the various stages in a woman. Neeta has also designed the clothes for many of Aish’s films- Taal, Devdas, Hum dil de chuke sanam and many others and most of them have been super hits. Neeta Lulla has also designed Shilpa Shetty’s clothes for big brother.

This woman is unstoppable. After 300 films, countless shows and two diligent decades as designer, Neeta Lulla is continuous to make news. She always says ‘My creations are inspired by life around me’. Bollywood is a big brand today- Globally. But style wise, it has always been a trendsetter. In fact number of today’s designer’s turns to yesteryear films for inspiration center.

Neeta holds the view that Kurtas and Kurtis are very much in style. Her fashion forecast; fusion wear is very much in style. Kurtas and kurtis worn by both men and women help greatly for the indo-western look, easy to wear and are very classy and comfortable. Colors and prints inspired from nature and pastel are in keeping with latest trend. For women low neck lines are hot and happening. Fashion makes Lulla, They also help her bond with the best in Bollywood. Lulla’s passion for work is evident by her early 40’s, in which she is a bundle of energy. She has always been a multi tasker.

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Monisha Jaising can be considered as one of the Top Fashion Designer of India. She is most creative personality among Indian fashion designers because of her collections which are so trendy and easy to wear. Today she is not simply an excellent celebrity but also a fabulous Top Indian fashion designer.

Monisha Jaising was remembered for her Wills fashion week through her designs which were worn by hot Bipasha Basu. Popular Film star Bipasa Basu made an appearance on the ramp dressed in a stark white fairy tales gown by Monisha jaising. An unusual combination of browns and pinks, with some pearly whites and fresh interspersed, were the highlights of Monisha Jaisings collections.

Monisha decided to keep things simple according to the Fashionable Indian Clothing. This all went with a line of short dresses, kurtis, kurtas with churidars and cropped jackets.

Wool embroidery, silver work, velvet applique, foil printing and metallic hand embroidery formed the embellishment, along with stones, shells and pearls are the special attraction of Monisha’s design. She always deep study in about how women should look more beautiful. Monisha also designed for various film celebrities. Compactly it can be said that Monisha jaising is one of the most excellent Indian fashion designer amongst all.

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Manoviraj Khosla is one among the name of Top fashion designers in India. Indian top fashion designer, Manoviraj Khosla sets up his Manoviraj khosla studio in 1990. It started up primarily with only men’s wear and then after showing some success, gradually moved on to include women’s wear as well. The studio takes up dressmaking orders for both men and women and also caters to individual orders as well. The studio has a wonderful collection of ready to wear garments: formal, casual, party wear and wedding trousseau. All the garments in the studio have the Manoviraj khosla signature style: trendy and hip.

Manoviraj Khosla is a top name associated with the world of fashion. He studied fashion at the American college in London. He designed a line of sporty clothes under the Kingfisher label. This line consists not only of men’s wear and women’s wear but also stylish range of foot wear. He has also designed uniforms for many corporate houses, restaurants, bars, hotels, schools and airlines. There are two Manoviraj Khosla in Bangalore and one in Kolkata.

The garments designed by Manoviraj Khosla are popularly known and retailed all over the country. Various different cities and boutiques in India also retail his clothes. He has been a supporter and promoter of the various crafts of weaving from all over the country and also one to use the latest in technology to create design from all over the world. One of his major contribution to Indian fashion designing has been the change in the way the saree and salwar kameez by innovating the vary form and drape of it.

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Manish Malhotra is one of the India’s Top fashion designer. He has worked for Bollywood and designed for many leading actresses in Bollywood. He is well known for his different approach and skill to predict a look for the personality. He treats every personality differently and can give the great and different looks to every personality easily. He was most probably known for designing the costumes for Urmila Matondkar in the film Rangeela.

Stars including Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta and Aishwariya Rai Bachhan have all worn her design. Although Manish Malhotra habitually designs for women, he designed for Shahrukh Khan in Mohabbatein. He was also asked to design clothes for Michael Jackson when he visited India for Bollywood show.

Manish also began a talk show named Manish Malhotra and also show cased his new collection in September 2007 at Lakme fashion week in Delhi, in which his actress friends also ramped for him in the show.

Manish was felicitated by National Institute of Fashion and Technology and Indira Priya Darshini memorial award for his contribution to the fashion industry. Manish Malhotra is also heading towards the field of film direction and he will be starting his career as a director of Krishna International.

After successfully carving a niche for haute couture in India, Manish Malhotra, India’s leading fashion designer and youth’s style icon, is opening his flag ship store in Dubai, called Manish Malhotra, which will offer garments and accessories for the Arab World. After successfully retailing across the Indian cities Manish Malhotra has been now wanted to confine the world.

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Manish Arora is among one of the Top Indian fashion designers. He needs no introduction in the world of fashion games. He launched his label ‘Manish Arora’ in 1997 and started retailing in India. He also in the year 2000, represented India at the India fashion week and participated at the first ever India fashion week held in New Delhi. Then he looked no back and is touching skies of this industry.

He is a top fashion designer and creative entrepreneur and has given life to his vision by creating different outfits. He from his, great hard work in the fashion industry is touching the skies. He has drawn inspiration from the mysterious of space for his fall winter collection, which he says “people will sport in 2015”. His collection has all the stiff and glossy fabrics like Lurex, satin, velvet, leather, and wool, Varanasi silk and printed with metallic, luminescent dyes which attracts his customers at the first sight.

All of Manish’s garments uses bright and contrast colors which have a black base with bright colors over it. Arora says for him, apart from the garments, the make- up, hair-do and shades are the stars of the shows. After the success of 1st label of Manish, he launched his Second label fish fry and showed this collection in six leading cities in India and was stocked at lord and Taylor, New York 2002.

Manish opened his first flag ship store ‘Manish Arora Fish Fry’ in New Delhi. Manish opened his second flag ship store in the commercial capital of India. Manish Arora collaborated with Reebok to design a collection of shoes under the brand Fish Fry for Reebok. “Indian by Manish Arora” a brand design specially keeping in view the growing Indian market for women’s wear is licensed to another reputed fashion company.

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India is full of beautiful monuments which attract a number of foreign tourists every year. Sanchi is a small village in Raisen District of the State of Madhya Pradesh, India, and is famous for the old beautiful monuments present there. Sanchi is located 46 km north east of Bhopal, and 10 km from Besnagar and Vidisha in the central part of the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Sanchi is known to be one of the important places of Buddhist pilgrimage and it has a number of Buddhist monuments constructed many centuries back. Sanchi is a nagarpanchayat in Raisen district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

The Great Stupa at Sanchi was originally commissioned by the emperor Ashoka the Great in the third century. Stupa is surrounded by Totanas here which is a symbol of love, peace, trust and courage. The nucleus of the Great Stupa was a simple hemispherical brick structure built over the relics of the Buddha. It was crowned by a parasol like structure known as chatra, which symbolize high rank and was intended to honorand shelter the relics.

Sunga period

The stupa of Sanchi is believed to be destroyed by the Sunga emperor, PusyamitraSunga, and was rebuilt by his son Agnimitra. Later in the same period, the stupa was expanded with stone slabs and was given almost twice its original size. The design was changed a bit and the dome was flattened near the top. It was crowned by three superimposed parasols within a square railing. With its many tiers, it was a symbol of the dharma, the Wheel of the Law. The dome of Sachistupa was set on a high circular drum meant for circumambulation, which could be accessed via a double staircase.

Satavahana period

The gateways and the balustrade at the Sanchistupa were build long time back and are believed to have been commissioned by the Satavahana. An inscription records the gift of one of the top architraves of the Southern Gateways by the artisans of the Satavahana king Satakami. It is so beautifully designed that although made of stone, they were carved and constructed in the manner of wood.

The gateways were covered with narrative scultpures and are very attractive. These outstanding and well-designed sculptures showed the scenes from the life of the Buddha. The viewers can easily relate themselves to the sculptures of the Buddha everyday life and makes it easier for them to understand the Buddhist creed as relevant to their lives. Most of the people donate money at Sanchistupa for the embellishment of the stupa to attain spiritual merit. Devotees who donate money towards a scripture would often choose their favorite scene from the life of the Buddha and then have their names inscribed on it.

The stones carving the Buddha do not show human figures. The artists represented him by certain attributes like horse on which he left his father’s home, his footprint, or a canopy under the Bodhi tree at the point of his enlightenment. It was believed that human body would be too confining for the Buddha.

Later construction of Sanchi Stupa

Many stupas and other religious Buddhist and early Hindu structures were added later in the following centuries. Temple 17 is known to be the earliest Buddhist temples build in the Gupta period.  It is beautifully designed and consists of a flat roofed square sanctum with a portico and four pillars. The temple gets an almost classical appearance by its elegantly carved front and highly decorated pillars.

With the decline of Buddhism in India, the monuments of Sanchi went out of use and fell into a state of disrepair.

Today, around fifty monuments remain on the hills of Sanchi, including three stupas and several temples. It is visited by many visitors and tourists to see its beauty and well-designed stupas and sculptures and the temples constructed are really attractive to look at.

Khajuraho, an Indian village in Madhya Pradesh, located in Chhatarpur is one of the most popular tourist destinations in India. It has the largest collection of Hindu and Jain temples and is famous for their erotic sculptures. It is also considered to be one of the seven wonders of India and is listed in UNESCO world heritage site.

Architecture of Khajuraho Temple

The khajuraho temples were among the most important monuments in India and is built in a span of 200 years, ranging from 950 to 1150. The complete area is enclosed by walls. Originally it had over 80 Hindu temples but now only 25 remains that are built over an area of about 21 square kilometers. The temples there are fine examples of Indian architecture styles which are popular due to their explicit depiction of the traditional way of sexual life during medieval times.

The architecture of khajuraho temples can be related to northern Indian shikhara temple style or a panchayatana plan. Besides a few Jain temples, the various Hindu temples are dedicated to god’s trio Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and various Devi forms.

Temples Famous for Erotic Art

Though the temples are famous for erotic art, there are no sexual or erotic images inside the temples near the figures of deities. Only the external carvings bear some of those. It is believed that to portray the arts there, one must leave their sexual desired outside the temple premises. The deities of the temples are portrayed as atmas and do not refer to any physical body. People suggest that the images there give an idea of tantric sexual practices. Some 10% of the images depict sexual art whereas others show the common life of normal Indian man and their activities.

Because of the erotic art forms here, the site is often referred to as Kama sutra temple. But they do not illustrate the positions of the Vatsyayana’s famous sutra’s philosophy. They just focus on pleasure rather than procreation.

It is also believed that the Chandela monarchs built this temple between 950 and 1150. At that time, Tantric tradition was practices. In those times, boys lived in brahmacharya until they became men and they can learn about household works by examining these images. All the sculptures present here clearly tells that these temples would have required a number of trained sculptors.

Situated in the Nilachal Hill, Assam, Kamakhya or shakti temple is dedicated to various forms of mother goddess. Hindu and tantric pilgrims often consider this place an important destination. Chilarai from the Koch dynasty constructed this temple in 1565. The original old structure was believed to be destroyed by Kala Pahar but the current structure consists of three chambers with idols and images of lord ganesha and other hindu gods and goddesses on the outside and a beehive like shikhara.

The general pilgrims use the western chamber which is large and rectangular. Middle chamber, added later, is a square and has an idol of goddess and images of Naranarayana and other related gods on the walls. It leads to the sanctum sandtorum through a cave which is a natural underground spring and flows in the bedrock through a yoni shaped cleft. The mensuration of goddess Kamakhya or Shakti is celebrated every summer during the Ambuvaci festival.

The legend of this famous temple says that after the Koch Bihar royal family was banned from offering puja here by Devi, the temple faced a lot of hardship without their support. By this time, Ahoms’ interest grew in this temple and the later Ahom kings supported the temple by renovating it. Later, Krishnaram Bhattacharyya, a famous mahant of Shakta became the spiritual guru for many Brahmins. Siba Singh, the king gave the management and land of Kamakhya temple to Krishnaram Bhattacharyya. The guru and his successors resided on the top of Nilachal hill and were called Parbatiya Gosains.

Worshippers consider this place a sacred sacrificial site and devotees often go there with goats and other animals as offerings to Shakti. According to Kalika Purana, Kamakhya is described as yielder of all desired, Shiva’s young bride and salvation giver. Kamakhya is also khown as Shakti. On the other hand, the Yogi Tantra relates Kamakhya with goddess kali. Banikanta Kakati says about the existence of a tradition which was famous among the priests. The tradition was established by Naranarayana and it tells that the Garos, a matrilineal people, worshipped Kamakhya by sacrificing pigs as an offering to the goddess.

The two modes of worship, Vamachara and Dakshinachara, are both used to worship the goddess. Often flowers are offered to the goddess but many also believed in male animal offering to please the goddess.

The Kamakhya temple is considered a major centre for Tantra worship and due to this reason, thousands of devotes of Tantra are attracted here in Ambuvaci, an annual festival celebrated here. Manasha Puja is another sacred celebration that takes place here every year. Kamakhya people also take part in Durga Puja celebration during Navratri, in the autumn. This celebration often runs for five days and it attracts several thousand people from around the country.