The RSS has decided to
grow up from shorts to trousers. Can we
hope that the change in the organisation’s sartorial taste is indicative of some
attitudinal changes? After all, the
trousers are not traditional Indian dress.
Will the RSS broaden its ideological landscape to include certain good
aspects of the culture from which it is downloading the bottoms?
If the RSS were to stick
to Indian culture, it would have to prescribe the dhoti to its members since
that was the traditional dress of Indian men for a very long period although
there were innovative ways of wearing it.
The long piece of unstitched cloth was the easiest dress to
manufacture. Stitching was not required. Even the women’s sari belongs to that ancient
period. Though the Indian men have opted
for the more convenient trousers, the women have chosen to retain the inconveniences
wrapped in the five-metre tapestry. But
the RSS is averse to women. So their
sartorial options will be narrowed down to a choice between the dhoti and the
pants.
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| Source: Countercurrents |
However, there are some
people who are inviting designer uniforms for the staunch guardians of our proud
culture. You can let your hair (not the
pants) down and mail your “Drawings, Photoshop images, photographs, cartoons,
doodles, even text descriptions of what such a dReSS could look like” to editor@countercurrents.org. For
more details, click here.
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