In the 1940s, a powerful empire was defeated by a man of peace dressed in simple clothes. He was Mohandas K Gandhi. At that time, India was part of the British Empire, a group of countries ruled ...

A key thread Gandhi, more than anyone else of his time, I would argue, understood the power of symbols. British anthropologist Emma Tarlo, in her 1996 book Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in ...

Rahul Gandhi claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is planning to raise the GST (Goods and Services Tax) slab on clothes priced above Rs 1500, from 12 per cent to 18 per cent.