sentences:  She became the executive director and later chair-person, of the Handicrafts and Handloom Corporation of India.From 1974 for three years she chaired the All India Handicrafts Board (HHEC).She was behind the Festivals of India organised in London, Paris, and America lasting several months in the early 1980s and the 'Apna Utsav' (Our Festivals) during the tenure of Rajiv Gandhi, to whom also she was a cultural adviser, and held the rank of Minister of State.