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The word dhoti is not there in the world book English dictionary.
'Just spread your dhoti,' is like saying, 'Breathe in, breathe out, relax and let go.'
The dhoti is a piece of American sheeting measuring eight cubits.
Clad in dhoti-kurta and angavastram, the 74-year-old Congress veteran, who won his first Lok Sabha election from Jangipur in 2004, arrived at the Returning Officer's office at 1.30 pm amidst cheers from hundreds of Congress supporters.
Clad in dhoti and sporting a Gandhi cap, he immortalised his roles as village sarpanch and the character he played against Shriram Lagoo in Saamna.
Many a night, when he returned to the shed, his back was raw where the lash had cut a livid streak through his thin dhoti.
Draped and flowy pants -- often called the dhoti pant or aka the MC Hammer style -- are big.
We all sat down on the verandah, which was of solid concrete, and the Jadoo-wallah took off his "dhoti" or loin cloth, and squatted in front of us.
Has Mr. Wagle heard of a word called "dhoti" or another called "kaire"?
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They didn't look sorry at the moment, mind, just sullen as the Sikhs knotted the ropes round their necks - except for one of them, a fat scoundrel in a dhoti who shrieked and struggled and blubbered and even broke free for a moment and flung himself grovelling before Rowbotham until they dragged him back again.
He is no longer the dhoti clad man … he has bigger dreams in his eyes today … and he is the marketer's dream consumer.
Kevin Pollard's apt period costumes provide additional clues, differentiating between white South Africans and Indians as well as illustrating Gandhi's metamorphosis by dressing him first in a buttoned-up British-style barrister suit and finally in the dhoti and staff of an itinerant Hindu sadhu.
Like all her neighbours, Deeti was preoccupied with the lateness of her poppy crop: that day, she rose early and went through the motions of her daily routine, laying out a freshly washed dhoti and kameez for Hukam Singh, her husband, and preparing the rotis and achar he would eat at midday.
Photographs of these new arrivals from India show them dressed almost in rags: a kurta and dhoti and light turban for the men, or a sari with the pallu, or tail, of the sari draped over the head in modesty for the women.
Movies made by westerners about India have rarely been worth writing home about, ranging as they've done from the appallingly ignorant racism of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to David Lean's well-intentioned but cringe-making Passage to India, with Alec Guinness in brown face and dhoti, warbling away as Professor Godbole.
A giant man with fether white dhoti and gamcha onhis shoulders performing evening prayers to river Ganges.
On a recent day there, dozens of shirtless priests in the traditional Brahmin uniform of a white dhoti and partially shaved head were standing around at a Hindu-scriptures school, hoping for work.
Both the Ashoks wear a long white kurta and white dhoti and both the Bahadurs wear a grey shirt and white dhoti.
His alter ego, Prabhakar, wears the white dhoti favored by Hindu-temple devotees.