The Demise of "Khadi"

This post is originated from a incidence, when I saw a picture of the young  Indian politician. He was watching a polo match in a western modern outfit with one of his girlfriends. Further, I saw another picture in which he was wearing a white "khadi" "kurta pajama", addressing a political/election campaign.  A white "khadi" kurta symbolizes the Indian polity and serving society, which is rooted back in per-independance time.  Mr. Gandhi(Gandhiji or Mahatma) initiated a movement to protect Indian hand-woven cloths industry and weavers' livelihood by opposing foreign cloths. The prominent leaders at that time, those were indulging in foreign lifestyle(Mr. Nehru, Mr. Patel etc.) due to influence of foreign education. Gandhi ji gave a new realization, said that, if you are leader of of 30-40 million of people. Then you must be one of those, that brought "khadi" in to Indian freedom struggle and then in polity. And I can speculate that in those leaders some of them adopted the philosophy on face value rather imbibed it, Which probably produced the generations of hypocrisy. Though, then onwards "khadi" was considered as the symbol of common  man/woman who work for larger important issues of societies.

It has been observed that from last one and half decade the hand woven "khadi" has been replaced by linen in reach and growing reach population. But what is the difference between linen and cotton("Khadi")? we will see that as follows.

Linen

Linen is a fine fabric that comes from a plant known as flax.  It is one fabric that has extreme smoothness and a natural luster that enhances the beauty and elegance of bone china. This luster is long lasting and comes from a natural wax content of linen fabric. Being expensive, people keep clothing made of linen for use on ceremonies and functions. Like cotton, linen is highly absorbent and gives a cooling effect when worn in summers[1].

Cotton

Cotton comes from cotton plant and mankind has known about the versatility of this wonderful fabric since ancient civilizations. Because it is natural, cotton is suitable for all skin types and is therefore grown in all parts of the world. Cotton fibers are separated from the seeds of cotton through a process called combing afterwards are spun to convert into threads that can be both knitted and woven to manufacture fabrics[1].

 A normal population don't know what is major difference between cotton and linen just by observing from a distance. It is a hypocrisy in which the white "Khadi" has been portrayed by a very expensive linen. Further wearing white "Khadi Kurtha"(basically a costly linen) has become a ritual or ceremony when they got to meet with voters. The way "khadi" has been demised in time the core philosophy of serving society has been also replaced. The true values of social service in politicians have been replaced by irrational  economic behavior. By and large, that will be leading the society to dissatisfaction. An assumption in which we consider that politicians are wearing purely "khadi kurta". Then slowly the the population is shifting from kurta-pajama to shirt-trouser/denim. If they(leaders) represent a population, a question rises here,  are they different or same as population is now?              

     "Khadi"(larger population) is crying loud out, asking for recognition and a new definition

Reference:

[1] http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-cotton-and-vs-linen/

Ordinals of life

                Everyone wants to live his/her life with certain expectations. These expectations always come with our behavior that finds something better than whatever existing. This better is nothing but an ordinal preference of certain things over others see fig:1 let say .

Fig: 1 ; Ordinals of life

             If i take an example of any individual like famous people of different areas like art, sport, academia, business, power/politics etc. I find they follow a certain path but that path has been described by others not by them. And those personalities have found themselves passionate about something. So let us take one human for sake of discussion I consider a female gender. She compares herself a state  with state , so means she jumps from different curves and reaches to some point and if trace her all the points she make a new curve H of appreciation or just another curve C to be ignored. But the intention of following such path was nothing but becoming and person to whom whole human society can admire and follow. So every time she finds a gap a-b (intuitively or quantitatively) and tries to fill that gap to accomplish something. So she tries to be passionate about something and then she was trying to join the league of Sachin Tendulkar, A R Rehman, Steve jobs, Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, John Nash, etc.
                  But there are some people those are passionate about not following any curve and whenever they found theme selves they divert themselves. I met such personality, his name was sanjay, he was always passionate to be in the normal population {to know more about normal population click here}. Whenever he finds himself, considered special by others he brings himself into normal population. Sanjay was always appreciated for his arithmetic and followed by mathematical analysis in early childhood in school and high school. He didn’t like the appreciation and that annoyed him allot. He stops doing that, wanted that he should be considered as normal student. He passed out school and started painting. Unfortunately, again he was appreciated by the rest of the people, he left that too. Why he was doing that?? We don’t know. I made a hypothesis , probably he wanted to explore the life fullest rather exploring the life in only one dimension though he may get appreciation from the people, but that appreciation was propelling him to do that thing more n more. He was not passionate about one dimension he was passionate about exploring multidimensional and in unappreciated world. After almost living his half of life he chose to do his jobs where he used sell newspaper, and a tea shop and he was exploring life in different dimensions he does doing mathematics, solving Navier–Stokes equations, painting, observing people etc.......


P.S.-- I received some of comments that topic is not concluded appropriately.....actually my intention was to address the two different types of philosophies in life. One is a common way of living the life with ordinal preferences basis. The other one{uncommon} the reverse order ordinal preference. I just want to leave this as food for thought to the readers and do not want any judgment that one is better than other. I think there may be possibly many other view points and philosophies of living life.

           

need a B/W image

Today it is Indian festival of color "Holi" and international women's day{the species that makes world colorful}. If you see these days side there is Holi, other side there were election in some of the states. We all know that these elections are also very color full, like how much color one party spill over the other parties or the party members. and if we we see little deep down to our Indian society we find there are colors and shades of colors. I consider them as disparity.

To go along with this post first we should know what is the definition of "disparity". According to Webster dictionary, "disparity" is said, as some things in collection which is not congruous, . We have multidimensional array(disparity), If i assume an array of two dimension, where u will find in one dimension the disparity with respect to food, dress, rituals and in other dimensions in each of these direction(food, dress, honesty, corruption, etc.) a disparity.
The whole idea of this post is to bring some B/W, once i was at college in rural/suburban India. There was a group photo for college. It was not told to the students and teacher about the dress code. First of all why we need the dress code.? answer is, probably we believe that uniformity is accepted to us. So when the photo session was over, i asked one of the in-charge persons , how did u find this photo ?, there is huge disparity in this picture. So if this picture will be published, the disparity among the student with respect to their financial status are visible with their affordability of high quality/end dresses. I suggested them to publish that picture in B/W. I thought it will be just shades of gray and some how we will be able to minimize the disparity, because minimizing the disparity will bring the uniformity in the system that is what maximum people are expecting for.

As shown in above figure if I consider a function which changes the colored picture to a B/W one. I can see that disparity is quite minimize or i can see that is only in one dimension it means there are three basic colors like Red, Blue and Green , each one of has their different shades but if u convert in to B/W then u have only shades of grays. It is necessary to address the shades of gray. Every one around us is gray where as, when we talk about society and itz harmony we used bring some of the roll models like Ram, , Ravan, Krishna, Jesus, etc. for sake of discussion we will consider Ram and Ravan. We always consider Ram as white and Ravan as black or we can put in other understanding of binary variable of {0, 1}. But their is a continuity between Ram and Ravan, so it means if h is any human than he/she belongs to H .

where Ravan=0 and Ram= 1

This continuity makes society disparate and we pushing the society to two extreme ends of Ram or Ravan though we belongs to a linear combinations of Ram and Ravan. In UP election recently, where as every party has projected them as a socialist. Socialist means what i understand is less disparate society . But here in the electoral system we are trying to define and find a Ravan or a Ram. But everything is gray here around with a huge spectrum. And we are looking for complete black and complete white which leads us to a wide range of shades of grays.

As a concluding remarks I hypothesize that, if we can achieve a band of two consecutive grays which has minimum disparity that will leads the society to harmony and sustainable development. It means we need to get a B/W image and that will reduce the multidimensional disparity to one dimension and than minimize the disparity in one dimension by achieving two consecutive shades of gray or one shade of gray.