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He has worked since 2007 with set designer Paolo Fantin, his former student at Venice’s Accademia di Belle Arti.

On our first trip to the village in March 2022, my colleague Shalini Venugopal Bhagat and I arrived to find Arti Kumari, one of the lead subjects of our series, and her family fully assembled.

Arti and her sister, Shanti, sent away the elementary-school-age children they usually tutored in math and Hindi.

On that hot day in May in Arti’s village, I was 11 months into a reporting project with Emily Schmall and Shalini Venugopal Bhagat, my colleagues from The New York Times’s South Asia bureau.

I have attended Hollywood awards ceremonies and watched couture-clad A-listers walk the red carpet, but I have never seen anyone look as glamorous as Arti Kumari on the day of her wedding in Bihar, India.