LUCKNOW, Feb. 3 -- Even as the Sanatkada Lucknow Festival is celebrating the confluence of Lucknow and Kolkata, a section of a marketplace set up as part of the event at Safed Baradari here traces the legacy of Kolkata's Boro Bazaar.

Its key attraction is stalls. One of the sellers there is a Bengaluru-based entrepreneur Meghna Khanna, who has transformed the business of 'bindi' into a premium enterprise.

Till 2020, Khanna had been running a jewellery and handicrafts business in Bengaluru for nearly 20 years. After her business took the hit of Covid-19, she wanted to create "something original and distinctive".

"While fashion has undergone revolutionary changes over the past five decades, bindi has remained largely unchanged. A style o...