Are you a rational being? This is a question, which should be asked to one’s self regularly. All activities a man can perform like listening, sore sacking, wearing, writing, reading has to be kept in close observation to one’s self.
For a rational being, if he does not find any satisfactory answer to his question (why?), then he should not do that.
If one talks about Indian dresses then immediately suits and saris (SS) come into picture (for girls). It gives you a typical Indian look.
Hindus come to know about these dresses after the invasion of Muslims. In ancient India (from early to 12th century), women wore no upper garment to cover their breasts. Whether villagers or queens, housewives, townswomen or milkmaids. All of them remained bare above the waist just like men. To prove this thing one can take Ajanta caves as a significant example. Ajanta caves have pilgrims , ladies in waiting, dancing women, nurses attending the sick, idle townswomen looking out of their windows, all wearing no upper garment. This all are the facts of clothing of that time because painters and sculptors of those time cannot lie for over 2000 years. Also, there is a fine sculptor of king Mahendravarman ( 6th century) with his two queens bare above waist. If they wore anything above waist to hide breasts then can any sculptor dare to delineate them like that.
Today’s sari came into existence around 1780. Ancient India has much more amazing fact about its culture and standard of living. Indians of that time were much more civilized than rest of the world. When Europeans were in barbarian stage India had fully planned and civilized cities. The status of women and men was also equal. At that time many panchayats also used to be handled by women. India also contributed in science, mathematics and many fields.
But now India’s mentality and culture has got distorted in many forms. Moreover, it is of no use looking back and feeling proud of such things. We get nationality, serve name and mother tongue by default and it is useless feeling irrational responsibility for that. Capitalism teaches us survival of the fittest. It is very absurd to be emotionally attached to your mother tongue, nationality, dress code etc. Because of globalization we came across many new and different innovative things and as we always want the best for ourselves, something which is compact and can come under our budget; so if one can purchase the best quality and compact form of a thing which is also easier to handle then why shouldn’t one go for that!
Now things are changing, young crowd has a high and modern thinking about almost everything but still they argue for some things that it should be traditional because it reminds of their culture and sovereignty associated with it, Why? Because they do not accept this fact: survival of the fittest. For example, well educated girls in India also wear suits and sari some times in spite of having many other better option because they want to remind themselves and to people around them that although they are modern and highly educated they still have that traditional stuff. As if, some household qualities will come automatically to them after wearing suits. Why Indian men donot wear dhoti kurta once in a while to prove their traditional feelings? Because, not only Indian men, but Indian women too feel themselves inferior to men. They do not understand that clothes cannot purify their image in front of their selves.
SS are made to cover the best part of a woman’s body,the most attractive one. Sari can be compared to an old age computers: very big and very complicated to handle and carry. Nowadays we use higher technology of computer i.e. laptops. Why? Because it is compact, easy to carry, trendy and one take it anywhere one wants to easily. Similarly western dresses are compact, trendy, and easy to carry. Sari has unnecessary number of turns. Everything is becoming compact and modern because of technology that’s why we are bending towards western dresses (something better to wear).
One should pursue each and every action of one’s life with rationality whether it comes to friends, music, marriage, clothes or anything else.

“I”

‘I’—am the witness. Witness of countless creatures passing by….
By the hazel spread of this sun, ’I’ exist.
Perpetual! In this perpetual light…
My broad, sturdy branches—complement my being.
I look up to the sky and it resounds—sky is your limit!
Every shred of my structure—a life giver.
Passing days—they are calm and I like spending time with them,
I can see—“see through” things.
I laugh…
Under the same sturdy branches, I witness virtually all gamuts of emotions—Broken hearts, meeting hearts, success’, failures, vows, maturing thoughts.
All blossoming and withering right under me. I smirk at it, I laugh and then suddenly I am drawn towards myself—and I am happy again!
Myriads of “colours” pass by me without even noticing me; except a ‘few’…
And to those ‘few’ I know, I give courage…
Courage—to face a lifetime.
Those ‘few’ who stop by to notice me are my epitomes. My alter egos….
I smile again, looking at them; those eyes, those beautiful, pristine eyes watching me and they give me—sheer pleasure.
Pleasure of watching them. The same pleasure which they derive, watching me…
We don’t talk but we understand a lot.
A reverence we pay to each other…..
I look back at myself and here again I am reaffirmed that Life holds new opportunities in the form of those ‘few’ and that Life goes on and that Life sees ‘Colours’,”Colours” don’t see life..
‘I’— am the world, ‘I’-am life,’I’-am complete.
I am I, the Individual.