“If Shahrukh Khan can do a lungi dance, why can’t we do a dhoti dance,” laughs Karthik Mahesh, a 23-year-old IT executive. “It’s tricky, though, to shake a leg in the standard four-yard dhoti. There’s ...

Mumbai/New Delhi: The humble lungi is the most popular outfit among major traditional attire that Indian men wear, beating the dhoti and the (male) kurta-pyjama suit by a wide margin, an analysis of ...

Thoonga Nayakkar’s wardrobe consisted of only one veshti. One hot afternoon, as he walked to the pond for a bath, he bent down to pick up a tamarind fruit. And just like that, his veshti ripped right ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu passed legislation Tuesday upholding the right of men to wear traditional wraparound garments known as "dhotis" in fancy clubs and end what ...

“Mr. Winston Churchill has denounced me as ‘a half-naked, seditious fakir,’ ” observed Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi, nine-tenths-naked at Calcutta last week. “It has become the fashion to laugh at my ...

The pants are off now as shorts of multi-coloured hues adorn the nether regions of men. Work from home hasn't been kind to trousers, once the showstoppers in men's attire. With the likes of Zoom, ...