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21 July 2018
Women : Women Opinions
OP-ED: DRESS CODES FOR WOMEN
Must women play football in sarees?

Women in India have continually faced restrictions on how they dress, whether it is on wearing jeans to college or sports gear on the fields. Shoma Chatterji looks at this persistent trend of sartorial repression and urges women to reject such diktats.
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