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Decoding India's dress code

…is a cultural swaraj under way?

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Illustration: AJAY MOHANTY

Ajit Balakrishnan
The man looked at me with a puzzled face when I greeted him. He and I have known each other since we started working but have not been in touch the past dozen years or so. I could guess the reason for his puzzled look: I have been encountering that look from many of my acquaintances since I started occasionally wearing khadi kurta pyjamas instead of my usual jeans and T-shirts, which is the dress code for those of us in the tech world. I stepped closer to him, and his face lit up with recognition.

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