chikan

Any act of public molestation or offense, usually of a sexual nature, against unsuspecting victims.

A person, usually a man, who rubs against or gropes others, usually women, in crowds, often in trains, to attain sexual pleasure.

A form of Indian cotton embroidery that is associated with the Lucknow area.

A collection of Calcutta chikan-work. Sent by Patna Chikanwala and Sons of Taltala, Calcutta

For many reasons, certain chikan stitches are not stem stiches or satin stitches —not even the technique is commensurate.

An item (such as a sari, bedspread, cushion cover, etc) that is made with chikan embroidery.

More and more people in India and abroad are getting familiar with the exquisite embroidered chikans of Lucknow, embroidered by the delicate and clever fingers of about 4000 ladies in and around the old city.

Hetal's family sends her suitcasefuls of exquisite Lucknow chikans, all in white.

A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.

Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction. It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby Kaiping diaolous – fortified, multi-storey dwellings – were put on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 2007.