Tight skirts, cocktail dresses and power suits are all in, even for women used to being seen in a wispy sari or draping salwar kameez.

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Last year, a senior Haryana government official objected to women employees coming to the office attired in anything except salwar kameez (loose tunic and trousers) or a sari.

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Sometimes she is dressed in her police uniform, but often she is undercover, wearing a colourful salwar kameez (long tunic and pyjama) or a sari to blend in with the female passengers.

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At first, recalls Mrs Sethi, the girls would not take off their chunnis (loose scarves worn over their salwar kameez, or tunic and trousers, to hide the line of the body) when they played.

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She was wearing a purple and pink salwar-kameez.

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Her hair and face were covered in dirt as she was carried out on a stretcher, wearing a purple and pink salwar-kameeze, and her scalp was showing where she had apparently lost big clumps of hair.

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