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 ...

Gandhi’s displays of passive resistance significantly influenced the path Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson ... and an older, bespectacled Gandhi dressed in a traditional Indian dhoti, ...

“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 ...

I know that some people still don’t buy that Gandhi was gay, but let me tell you, from experience, Gandhi liked guys. I first met him when he came to see my ice show in Nepal, which was called ...

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 ...