Crocheter Minal Agrawal knows how to spin a good yarn. But, until recently, this knowledge was restricted to her close friends and family. "They say, children land up doing what their parents wanted for them. It's been the opposite for me. I decided to exhibit my work at my daughter's insistence," she says when we meet her one morning at her Breach Candy home. Agrawal's daughter Sanjana, now 16, was eight years old when she suggested that her mother market her ware, but it took Agrawal close to a decade to relent. "She had seen me give away crocheted gifts to people and wanted me to put my talent out there. But it's one thing to receive them as presents and quite another to pay for it. I felt they had no marketability," she says.

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