Koel Puri asked Sushma Swaraj what she liked to wear when she went for a dip in the Ganga. I was too busy trying to figure the pattern on her nightie. I could hardly focus on what she was saying. She was giving vent to her frustrations with the Mamata Banerjee government’s high-handed ways. I have seen the formidable Mahasweta Devi, one of our foremost intellectuals, now a feisty octogenarian, give television interviews in a sleeveless printed nightie. As samosapedia explains it’s “the most loued article of clothing any aunty owns… From Patiala to Mysore, Indian aunties are louing their nighties.” Now it feels like the world has entered some kind of twilight zone where all those aunties run around all day with their nighties a-flapping. That was the way we marked the beginning of the day. When I was growing up my mother changed from her night-sari to her morning sari everyday. In India, the nightie has a new post-colonial reincarnation. “Her nightie was one of those Liberty prints and it was down to her knees,” he recalled on her 60th anniversary. When Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace in 1982 by climbing a drainpipe and wandered into the Queen’s bedroom, the real scandal was that he saw the Queen in her nightie.
Anitha Roseline.īlossoms obviously does not realise what is at stake here. “We should be concentrating on issues like getting the child to school on time and not what his mum or dad wore while dropping him off,” concurs Dr.
Setting norms for students is all right in order to maintain decorum, decency and discipline but enforcing such conditions on parents is illogical,” fumes H P Murali in the Bangalore Mirror. Shashi Kumar told the Telegraph.Īs expected, there has been some pushback. “It became an embarrassment for everyone around,” principal D. Apparently people have started hanging around the school gates every day to get their morning jollies from seeing mommies in their nighties. No more dropping off your children in your nightwear. The Blossoms school has issued a dress diktat for parents. One brave school in Bangalore is now trying to hem the tide.
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