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.

NEW DELHI, Jan. 30, 1948 (UP) -- Mohandas K. Gandhi was assassinated today by a Hindu extremist whose act plunged India into sorrow and fear.

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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 ...

“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 ...

Gandhi, wearing white 'Dhoti', undershirt and a red coloured scarf, offered prayers in the sanctum sanctorum as the priests recited 'Panchopchar Shodashopachara Mantra'.

From Saffron To Dhoti, ... “Mahatma Gandhi wore a loin cloth and a khadi dhoti, and he went around bare-chested. The only accessory he had was his watch,” says Sudhanva Deshpande.