Fashion Club. Fashion Club and other stories (Nagareega Pannai)

Fashion club Is fashion a chameleon or a magical pretence ? How it evolves ! Another form ; the following day it faces opposition ! How many mutilations are there in clothes ! How much work for scissors ! How much load for the washer man ! How many affected gestures in behaviour ! How much make-up on the face ! How much torture for the moustache and hairdo ! How many looks in the mirror ; how many twists ! Shaving of the face and the newspaper stand for morning and evening prayers ; coffee or tea for sipping of water while uttering mantras ; gossiping for self-enquiry and Brahma Bhadra fire sacrifice - the five sacrifices take place in high fashion mode ! Getting up at 4 a.
m. , bathing, reciting mantras and meditating to purify the mind, reading from scriptures, working hard and partaking of tasty and healthy food to satisfy hunger and living an austere life - all these have become outdated ! The old traditions have become rare. The Kali Yuga has ripened, and love marriages have become the norm. It is of course necessary to follow the mores of the age ; education and behaviour must be in tune with the times ; but why attribute irregular acts that defile the body and mind to the prevailing fashion ? "Cigar is bad, my son" says the father ; "Dad, I know it is bad, that is why I burn and reduce it to ashes to avenge myself, " says the son.
Why talk only about the son ? Even girls have started to play out their independence on the stage of modern fashion. Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget