'See?' said a girl with punky hair and arms smothered by bangles.
Small units manufacture bangles, handkerchiefs, bags.
She also wore, to the end of her days, a vermilion spot on her forehead and copious red bangles on her arms.
A small indication was the scrapping in April of the last foolish restrictions that allowed only small businesses to produce items like wooden furniture, locks, candles, matches, bangles and pickles.
But today the stalls selling glittering bangles attract more tourists than traders.
That is partly born of their latest shared suffering: "Bangles from Delhi, paan [Betel nut] for Lahore amid the ashes", was a typical Indian newspaper headline describing the atrocity.
In one Uttar Pradesh village with a solar plant a shopkeeper claims his income soared once he opened late, while his wife and other women took to making bangles in the evening.
The average value of purchase for solitaires is 100,000 rupees and smaller items like gold bangles and earrings go at around 18,000 rupees.
His mother, Leelabaiy, a pugnacious 65-year-old jangling with green bangles, lives with Mr Korde and his wife and two children in a three-room slum-house.
Later, 400 pairs of diamond-studded gold bangles, 30kg of jewellery and 750 pairs of slippers were found when her home was raided.Since then, she has rebuilt her popularity.
A woman is buying bangles with her winnings from an informal lottery.
