Chennai: More than 100 years ago, Mahatma Gandhi made a historic decision in Tamil Nadu to ditch his vest and cap and instead wear a khadi loincloth, or dhoti, to connect with the poorest of the poor.

Incidentally, it was in Madurai that Gandhiji finally decided to give up wearing shirt and trousers and started wearing a simple dhoti. “Gandhi as a barrister from South Africa visited Madras in ...

“I had on my cap, vest and full dhoti [three-foot-wide loin cloth]. My hearers wore only a strip of cloth about four inches wide. I saw that where my clothing uttered only a partial truth of the ...

IRVING — Mahatma Gandhi, the great Indian leader and advocate of nonviolent protest, was assassinated 67 years ago. ... He is dressed in his usual dhoti with a shawl covering his shoulders.

Regarding the transfer of the handlooms director, the minister said it was a routine transfer. Annamalai, in a statement, said Chief Minister MK Stalin should drop Gandhi from the council of ...

But if this was the case with Gandhi, what is it about the mobile Mahatma on the move, staff in hand, and bare and spare body clad in the meagre folds of a dhoti, that catches the eye of India’s ...