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Yesterday one of my classmates said to me, Why don’t you wear shoes👟?( as I feel more comfortable in chappals), ‘ban than ke raha kar’ .Why do we have to be presentable? and to whom? to those who don’t even know what their own opinions are as it changes from morning to noon a hundred times, to those  who are wearing half torn jeans and pants? For me, decent clothes are clean, and those which are enough to cover my body. Chappals are very comfortable. Aren’t they?

In complete agreement with you. Some wear their identity upon their dress, others carry it in their high climbing thoughts and the aspiration of their soul. While wearing a clean, decent dress is fine but to occupy the mind with the clothes and looks is often the sign of inner inferiority that one tries to cover up by outer means. As to shoes, coat and tie it is the sign of an imperialism hangover because given the Indian climate, there is little logic in wearing these things. Besides people who judge you by your dress simply shows the depravity of their intellect that is easily fooled by appearances.

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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