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'A chaos of colour': new play made for one of Manchester's last sari shops by Frances Perraudin

Rani Moorthy's Handlooms takes place in a traditional clothes store " and its sister shop in Leicester " to explore changing experiences of British Asians When Alankar House of Sarees first opened on what is now Manchester's Curry Mile in 1977, its only neighbours were a grocer's and the Indian-Pakistani restaurant Sanam. As the years went by the shop was joined by scores of rivals, competing for custom from the area…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM on March 5, 2018

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