Comments on: Crazy Bout A Sharp Dressed Man http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: vaithy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-205558 vaithy Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:10:55 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-205558 <p>I think the dress code is not a bad idea,but it must not get into the learning stream.whereas to teach and discuss about his preachings and his way of life we can dedicate a separate hour once a week or thrice a month where we can insist the interested to follow the dresscode of <b>MAHATHMA</b> with a dhoti on top and a <b>Loincloth</b> underneath it.</p> I think the dress code is not a bad idea,but it must not get into the learning stream.whereas to teach and discuss about his preachings and his way of life we can dedicate a separate hour once a week or thrice a month where we can insist the interested to follow the dresscode of MAHATHMA with a dhoti on top and a Loincloth underneath it.

]]> By: shlok http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-143332 shlok Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:35:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-143332 <p>AP just reported another gandhi grandson passed: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_Obit_Gandhis_Grandson.html">Ramchandra Gandhi.</a></p> AP just reported another gandhi grandson passed: Ramchandra Gandhi.

]]> By: Maybe Sujatha http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-135278 Maybe Sujatha Wed, 09 May 2007 15:29:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-135278 <p>Khadi, the fabric (usually cotton, sometimes silk, that has been handspun and handwoven) holds a very strong emotional appeal for people in India - tied in with the iconic status it acquired during the struggle for Independence is also the knowledge that the spinners and weavers who create the cloth are most likely poor people living in villages , people who benefit when we (i speak for some/many urban middle-class people) buy and wear Khadi. That said , the insistence of the Vidyapeeth on the use of Khadi fabric to the exclusion of all other fabrics - which are just as Indian , just as likely to pay the wages of a poor person - is maddeningly archaic .</p> <p>As a card-carrying lover of conspiracy theories , I cannot really see the point of bringing Gandhi's preferred dress (or , as Vinod seems to feel - undress) into this post - how is it related to what his grandson chooses to wear/not wear ? And how is it related to the dress-code imposed by the Vidyapeeth ? The strictures , medieval as they seem , apply to the <i>fabric</i> being used , not the garment itself . I am with Quant-trotsky here - the last sentence makes no sense at all , and seems to be just a gratuitous bit of Gandhi-bashing . Wake up and smell the agenda .</p> Khadi, the fabric (usually cotton, sometimes silk, that has been handspun and handwoven) holds a very strong emotional appeal for people in India – tied in with the iconic status it acquired during the struggle for Independence is also the knowledge that the spinners and weavers who create the cloth are most likely poor people living in villages , people who benefit when we (i speak for some/many urban middle-class people) buy and wear Khadi. That said , the insistence of the Vidyapeeth on the use of Khadi fabric to the exclusion of all other fabrics – which are just as Indian , just as likely to pay the wages of a poor person – is maddeningly archaic .

As a card-carrying lover of conspiracy theories , I cannot really see the point of bringing Gandhi’s preferred dress (or , as Vinod seems to feel – undress) into this post – how is it related to what his grandson chooses to wear/not wear ? And how is it related to the dress-code imposed by the Vidyapeeth ? The strictures , medieval as they seem , apply to the fabric being used , not the garment itself . I am with Quant-trotsky here – the last sentence makes no sense at all , and seems to be just a gratuitous bit of Gandhi-bashing . Wake up and smell the agenda .

]]> By: ScarletGuju http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133897 ScarletGuju Thu, 03 May 2007 16:26:36 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133897 <p>Here's a critical assessment of <a href="http://www.isreview.org/issues/14/Gandhi.shtml">Gandhian non-violence </a>that, I think, remains fair to his immense contribution to the anticolonial struggle.</p> Here’s a critical assessment of Gandhian non-violence that, I think, remains fair to his immense contribution to the anticolonial struggle.

]]> By: Parmdan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133866 Parmdan Thu, 03 May 2007 09:43:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133866 <p>No one has mentioned the actual material. I've worn hemp and khadi, and khadi is much stronger and more durable than hemp. Just something I noticed. back to Gandhi... the man was an enigma and full of contradictions. Read his autobiography. There has been a drive to revive Gandhi's legacy in the last couple of years in India. But I guess the question remains "what is his legacy?" There are many in India who do not hold him in the same regard as almost every Euro-Christian does (Gandhi always though Western civilization would be a good idea</p> No one has mentioned the actual material. I’ve worn hemp and khadi, and khadi is much stronger and more durable than hemp. Just something I noticed. back to Gandhi… the man was an enigma and full of contradictions. Read his autobiography. There has been a drive to revive Gandhi’s legacy in the last couple of years in India. But I guess the question remains “what is his legacy?” There are many in India who do not hold him in the same regard as almost every Euro-Christian does (Gandhi always though Western civilization would be a good idea

]]> By: brownout http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133857 brownout Thu, 03 May 2007 08:18:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133857 <blockquote> One might say that a failure to critically examine Gandhi's legacy and sartorial sense also suggests an agenda </blockquote> <p>This is a critical examination of a legacy? Also, no blog site can truly do that; unless someone researches all the information takes the time to prove what they want then posts their findings -- and it still wouldn't be a blog site. Just someone posting their book on the internet.</p> One might say that a failure to critically examine Gandhi’s legacy and sartorial sense also suggests an agenda

This is a critical examination of a legacy? Also, no blog site can truly do that; unless someone researches all the information takes the time to prove what they want then posts their findings — and it still wouldn’t be a blog site. Just someone posting their book on the internet.

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133796 Salil Maniktahla Thu, 03 May 2007 04:04:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133796 <p>Sadaiyappan (19 and 20):</p> <p>"Ghandi" is what I call the girl I'm dating. It means "dirty" in Hindi.</p> <p><b>Gandhi </b>was a leader in the Indian Independence movement. And he was deeply anti-Partition.</p> <p>Or is this some kind of joke that I'm just too obtuse to get?</p> Sadaiyappan (19 and 20):

“Ghandi” is what I call the girl I’m dating. It means “dirty” in Hindi.

Gandhi was a leader in the Indian Independence movement. And he was deeply anti-Partition.

Or is this some kind of joke that I’m just too obtuse to get?

]]> By: Sadaiyappan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133757 Sadaiyappan Thu, 03 May 2007 01:11:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133757 <p>One of my cousins tells me that splitting India and Pakistan was ghandi's biggest mistake..</p> <p>But some other desi dude I used to drink with tells me that it was Nehru's mistake and he wanted a nobel peace prize..</p> One of my cousins tells me that splitting India and Pakistan was ghandi’s biggest mistake..

But some other desi dude I used to drink with tells me that it was Nehru’s mistake and he wanted a nobel peace prize..

]]> By: Sadaiyappan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133755 Sadaiyappan Thu, 03 May 2007 01:08:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133755 <p>I read a book on ghandi once.. It was a big book too.. It had a lot about his mistakes and how we was often of unpredictable nature..</p> I read a book on ghandi once.. It was a big book too.. It had a lot about his mistakes and how we was often of unpredictable nature..

]]> By: Rajesh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/05/02/crazy_bout_a_sh/comment-page-1/#comment-133733 Rajesh Wed, 02 May 2007 23:41:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4396#comment-133733 <p>One might say that a failure to critically examine Gandhi's legacy and sartorial sense also suggests an agenda</p> <p>Commenting on Gandhi's grandson's choice of clothes is critically examining Gandhi's legacy and sartorial sense?</p> One might say that a failure to critically examine Gandhi’s legacy and sartorial sense also suggests an agenda

Commenting on Gandhi’s grandson’s choice of clothes is critically examining Gandhi’s legacy and sartorial sense?

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