"I include at least one of the nine auspicious gems or navaratnas in my handmade jewelry. Because ultimately I'd like my pieces to bring you luck and happiness, not just beauty."

"My name is Menaka Ram. You can remember my last name easily just by thinking of the god Ram, the hero of the Indian epic Ramayana. My story is quite different from Ram's though. One day, one of my jewelry pieces broke. That's when I noticed all of my lovely gems lying around, so I started stringing them back together with copper wire. I wore my recreated piece, now reborn, and everyone said it looks so much better than what it was before. So here I find myself, ...

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