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Sunita Singh spent years as a homemaker before starting a Chikankari label in Noida. Twenty months on, she has built it without leaning on paid advertising. Building an identity of her own Sunita Singh spent years with her days shaped entirely by her household. She was a homemaker raising two daughters, and she writes that after years of putting her family first, she wanted to build an identity of her own, something with a purpose beyond just being a business. In December 202

Sunita Singh reports ₹70,000 and counting for Riyana Chikankala this quarter, built without paid advertising, while pushing a craft usually sold as women's occasion wear onto men's and kids' rails. Ask most people to picture Chikankari and the same image comes back: white thread on pale cotton, a woman's kurta, worn once in a season of weddings. The craft carries generations of Lucknow behind it and a fairly narrow shelf in front of it. Sunita Singh is working on the shelf. H