News.Scotsman.com – By RJ Patel
India’s newest talk show host, billed as the local Oprah Winfrey, hitched up her sari and looked for her stylist’s approval. “Very feminine. You look gorgeous, like a goddess,” he said, smiling reassuringly as he braided a garland of fresh jasmine into her hair.
“The sari is the most flattering garment,” he added, as he touched up her make-up minutes before the cameras started rolling. “It disguises manly shoulders, takes attention away from a masculine neck.”
A complex procedure even for experienced hands, the process of tying a sari is particularly hard for talk show host Rose, who was raised as a boy and used to be known as Ramesh Venkatesan.