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While it prepares students for the future, NIFT also teaches them to value and nurture our traditional past.

It is 8.45 am on a Wednesday morning. A group of students dressed smartly in jeans, tops and shirts start filtering inside the sprawling campus of the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in the Hauz Khas area of New Delhi. There is still some time to go for their classes, about half an hour, and so these young boys and girls are sitting out in the open--on the steps of the amphitheatre--busy exchanging notes, ideas and their thoughts on how to make different the ensembles they have been assigned to work on. That's almost

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