Jun 17 2009
Saree as a required uniform – please don’t make it mandatory!
No saree, no attendance for interns in this Chennai college
CHENNAI: V Kamalam, a homoeopathy student, has been denied attendance in a city college, which says interns should wear only sarees during their one-year internship. Her plea that she never wore a saree in her life and that she would wear `decent’ salwars during the period have not cut ice with the management. The Madras high court, which has reserved its order in the matter, may deliver the verdict in a few days.
But this is not the first time such a controversy has reached the court. In 2004, a school in T Nagar made sarees mandatory for its women teachers. Men were asked to come in pants and full-sleeve shirts. Four Anglo-Indian faculty members, who had difficulty in complying with the order, started wearing traditional Tamil attire in protest. The management fined them, at the rate of Rs 25 per day.
From Times of India.
Nobody appreciates saree and respects the connection between the saree and the traditions more than I do, but I can’t possibly condone this.
Sunny is a designer in Los Angeles. He loves the fluidity and fluency of a saree and believes that when a woman wears a saree, she not only adorns her body but she also adorns her soul. His design ethos is that “simplicity never goes out of style.”
Indrani is a video 
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