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Shaina NC talks to Eastern Eye, about fashion and politics

Shaina Nana Chudasama, better known by her abbreviated name Shaina NC, is an Indian fashion designer, politician, and social worker. A daughter of the former Sheriff of Mumbai, Shaina is known in the Indian fashion industry as the ‘Queen of Drapes’ for draping a saree in fifty-four different ways.

She holds a record in the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest saree drape.


She entered politics in 2004 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

She holds the positions of national spokesperson for the BJP, member of the national executive council of BJP, and treasurer of the BJP’s Maharashtra unit.

Shaina is also involved in social work through her charity fashion shows and two NGOs, ‘I Love Mumbai’ and ‘Giants International’. As a female politician, she is often projected as the young, urbane, and women-friendly face of the BJP in television debates.

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Black and mixed ethnicity children face systemic bias in UK youth justice system, says YJB chair

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  • Black children 37.2 percentage points more likely to be assessed as high risk of reoffending than White children.
  • Black Caribbean pupils face permanent school exclusion rates three times higher than White British pupils.
  • 62 per cent of children remanded in custody do not go on to receive custodial sentences, disproportionately affecting ethnic minority children.

Black and Mixed ethnicity children continue to be over-represented at almost every stage of the youth justice system due to systemic biases and structural inequality, according to Youth Justice Board chair Keith Fraser.

Fraser highlighted the practice of "adultification", where Black children are viewed as older, less innocent and less vulnerable than their peers as a key factor driving disproportionality throughout the system.

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