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Shine beyond the buckle

As men's jewellery comes out of the closet, leading jewellery designer Poonam Soni decodes the suave metrosexual's sparkle trends.

As cliches go, men and jewellery may sound like a conflicting combination, but history and tradition bear witness that the Indian man's relationship with jewellery has been a particularly passionate one. If royalty's tryst with baubles is legendary, so is the fascination that tribal men shared with sparkles, often wearing more jewellery than clothes.

History as

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