For a garment cut from 1.5 metres of cloth, the humble bandi (half-jacket) has managed to spin quite a long political yarn.
Once known as Nehru jacket, the desi waistcoat has been now been appropriated by Narendra Modi, a man with barely concealed disdain
for the Nehruvian legacy.
"Well, this isn't a political choice, it is sartorial. The BJP doesn't even call it a Jawahar jacket, they call it Modi jacket. In fact, Modi has a very good collection-buttoned up, open, in unconventional colours
and he wears them on his foreign trips which Jawahar didn't," says Natwar Singh, estranged Congressman, former diplomat and a selfprofessed fan of the Nehru jacket.
Read more at : http://m.timesofindia.com/india/The-Nehru-jacket-now-Modi-style/articleshow/43043940.cms
Once known as Nehru jacket, the desi waistcoat has been now been appropriated by Narendra Modi, a man with barely concealed disdain
for the Nehruvian legacy.
"Well, this isn't a political choice, it is sartorial. The BJP doesn't even call it a Jawahar jacket, they call it Modi jacket. In fact, Modi has a very good collection-buttoned up, open, in unconventional colours
and he wears them on his foreign trips which Jawahar didn't," says Natwar Singh, estranged Congressman, former diplomat and a selfprofessed fan of the Nehru jacket.
Read more at : http://m.timesofindia.com/india/The-Nehru-jacket-now-Modi-style/articleshow/43043940.cms