{"id":119583,"date":"2017-03-03T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T09:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=43917"},"modified":"2017-03-03T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T09:03:31","slug":"baba-ramdevs-plan-manufacture-swadeshi-jeans-gets-designer-twist-times-india-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=119583","title":{"rendered":"Baba Ramdev&#8217;s plan to manufacture swadeshi jeans gets a designer twist | Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samant, who has worked with handloom denim in the past and conceptualised a range of Jodhpur pants made of handloom denim, confirmed that the subject of &#8216;swadeshi jeans&#8217; was broached with him, and things were supposed to go forward after a meeting at <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happytrips.com\/topic\/haridwar\" rel=\"nofollow\">Haridwar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was in December that I got a call from someone asking for my profile, and then he connected me to a close aide of <a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Acharya-Balakrishna\">Acharya Balakrishna<\/a>, who is the CEO of Patanjali, and they did ask me about the work that I did with handloom denim in the past.<\/p>\n<p>They are working on their line of denim, and I think for that, they have been looking for designers who have worked with the fabric or Indian textiles. I was told that they would want to have a meeting with me about handloom denim and the meeting was supposed to be in Haridwar.<\/p>\n<p>They were keen on a meeting in January, but I was travelling and busy with a few other projects, so we haven&#8217;t discussed anything further so far,&#8221; Samant tells us.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re closely watching to see who finally wields their scissors on these desi denims, and if they&#8217;re going to replace the Baba&#8217;s robes as his preferred choice of attire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samant, who has worked with handloom denim in the past and conceptualised a range of Jodhpur pants made of handloom denim, confirmed that the subject of &#8216;swadeshi jeans&#8217; was broached with him, and things were supposed to go forward after a meeting at Haridwar. &#8220;It was in December that I got a call from someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}