“I still have not been able to figure out after 60 years of Independence why we stick to this barbaric colonial relics,” the minister said while addressing students at the seventh convocation of the Indian Institute of Forest Management. Ramesh posed a question as to why there cannot be a convocation with everyone sporting a simple dress.
“Why we cannot have a convocation in simple dress instead of coming dressed up as medieval vicars and popes,” he asked, as he removed his gown worn over his white kurta.
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