Shashi on the Sari

For you feel that if the Sari were to die out… that would mean moving away from tradition, everything that our ancestors have lived through and handed over to us. Again, even though you don’t say it, you believe it is the women in this country on whose shoulders the responsibility of saving all the traditions befalls, which can be done, simply, by adorning the Sari. My small mind fails to understand why the men in their trousers have met with your approval so instantly, even though that would also mean the death of the the dhoti.

Emma writes an open letter to Shashi Tharoor, in response to his discourse about the Sari.