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Sandip Roy: The Dhoti Class

Photo courtesy of Snapdeal.com/image modified from original
A typical Dhoti

 Sometimes it seems 70 years after Independence India is just unable to shake off its suited and booted colonial hangover. 

But it’s really not about the clothes, or even colonized minds. The clothes are code. These malls and restaurants do not care about clothes. They care about the class of people they want to allow into their establishment.  And here’s the uncomfortable truth – so do we.