The one-lakh car will mean the return of the saree in the workplace.
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I am overwhelmed with the temptation to link this, or forward it to three or four mailing lists. A pox on your soft launch publicity rules!
[...] I am starting another new NGO. This one is called TASK, or the Taskforce for the Annihilation of the Salwar Kameez. I will be the President and A Rod will be the Dictator for Life. And Ratan Tata will be the Patron Saint. [...]
hmmp! With oil prices soaring a country feeding off on a car-craze may not be the best of ideas but if it means more women in sarees at the workplace then I am all for it. More power to Mr Tata!
[...] My guess is that this is what happened. A generation back, the saree was the only dress for most people. In North India, fashionable women took to wearing sleeveless blouses. In South India, they did not, and wearing a sleeveless blouse was considered daring and mildly disreputable. Over a generation, young women over most of India have made the transition from sarees to other forms of dress. So, a woman in South India who wants to look fashionable will wear a sleeveless kameez. This means that if you have grown up in a town in Karnataka, it is entirely possible that you have never seen a woman wearing a sleeveless blouse with a saree. The only exception would be whores. Of course, all this will change with the introduction of the Tata Nano. [...]
Would love a little explanation on the one liner. My underdeveloped brain unable to grasp the concept. Good day sir.
Cheers
Debashis