The great Indian rope trick
- Santosh Desai
- TNN Dec 10, 2023, 18:18 IST IST
The tyranny of fitted clothes is something we take for granted today. We grow out of them and think it is normal. The humble nada is a one-stop solution for most clothes
This column has been accused in the past of writing about things that do not deserve to be thought about, let alone written about, for the very act of writing is somehow meant to concern itself with terribly important things.
Articles about the nightie, the swing, postcards, pigtails, sugarcane juice, the tiffin box, and several other such trivialities always have at least some people (the politer lot) go, "What things you write about, man". When there are so many important things happening in the world, how does one ignore one’s responsibilities and write about such mundane things? And yet, if there is reason to talk about the big stuff, there is perhaps an equal need to reflect upon some currencies of everyday behaviour; the more trivial, the better. So perhaps there is nothing more trivial or more utterly unworthy of any kind of contemplation than the humble nada or drawstring, so here we are.
Articles about the nightie, the swing, postcards, pigtails, sugarcane juice, the tiffin box, and several other such trivialities always have at least some people (the politer lot) go, "What things you write about, man". When there are so many important things happening in the world, how does one ignore one’s responsibilities and write about such mundane things? And yet, if there is reason to talk about the big stuff, there is perhaps an equal need to reflect upon some currencies of everyday behaviour; the more trivial, the better. So perhaps there is nothing more trivial or more utterly unworthy of any kind of contemplation than the humble nada or drawstring, so here we are.
