What makes up your identity? Is it culture, tradition, and aesthetics? Or is it religion, faith, and rituals? Is it ideas and concepts? Or is it your habits, fitness levels and fashion? Most likely, it is all of the above.

For many of us, how we dress and what we wear is part of our identity, even if we belong to the group that says: “I don’t wear any jewellery.”

The question is: as India grows economically and people travel all over the world, will we lose the dazzling diversity of our jewellery traditions?

Will we become a jewellery monoculture? I hope not. 

Jewellery, even the simplest piece is rooted in spirit, self and faith. 

Whether it is the specific shapes of the rings that people wear on their fingers, or the types of armlets, necklaces and earrings, Indian jewellery bedazzles in its range and its specificity to geography and history. 

To lose that would be tragic.