06-12-2007, 01:16 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-acharya+Jun 12 2007, 01:23 AM-->QUOTE(acharya @ Jun 12 2007, 01:23 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Is the colonial hangover alive and kicking in India? Do Indians secretly still want to be English people?
The dress controversy started after the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Club in Chennai refused entry to a civil servant because he was wearing a veshti (traditional Indian dhoti) and not a suit.
So the question here is, do our social practices remain unthinkingly imitative of the bada sahibs of the British Raj?
Clothes have a political significance, they create an identity, they tell truths about our inner self and they make and remake us - so why are still wearing suits instead of dhoti...
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The dress code (coated and booted and tied) would mean that the Indian PM, President, and other Indian dignitaries and heads of states would also not be allowed in? Incredible. Trust the brown sahibs to continue where the whites sahibs left off.
The dress controversy started after the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association Club in Chennai refused entry to a civil servant because he was wearing a veshti (traditional Indian dhoti) and not a suit.
So the question here is, do our social practices remain unthinkingly imitative of the bada sahibs of the British Raj?
Clothes have a political significance, they create an identity, they tell truths about our inner self and they make and remake us - so why are still wearing suits instead of dhoti...
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The dress code (coated and booted and tied) would mean that the Indian PM, President, and other Indian dignitaries and heads of states would also not be allowed in? Incredible. Trust the brown sahibs to continue where the whites sahibs left off.