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Shah Rukh Khan and Shaina NC during the launch of Movers & Makers. Pic/Sameer Markande

The desire to experiment in areas hitherto unfamiliar, Shaina NC probably gets from her charming mother Munira. Bang in her 70s, former sheriff Nana Chudasama’s wife decided to take off to Oxford for a short course in philosophy. Fashion designer, and now politician, Shaina follows suit, and this time her experiment is with writing. "I am not a hardcore author," she told this diarist on the day her book, Movers & Makers: The Making of Make in India Week 2016 was launched in the presence of actor Shah Rukh Khan (in pic) and CM Devendra Fadnavis, "but I like to write, and the foreword is straight from the heart." The coffee table title is a tribute to the week-long event held earlier this year, centering around innovation, design and sustainability. The book is her effort to chronicle the events and those committed to it, with a special focus on textiles. Shaina returned to her first love, designing, when she helmed an installation in collaboration with 25 designers to celebrate Indian textiles, with a finalé event paying tribute to Maharashtra’s star sari, the Paithani. "I felt, unless all of this was documented, we’d forget it," she said. Memory is a fickle thing, they say, and who knows that better than a politico.