THE “NAKED TRUTH”
INDIAN STUDENT’S PROTEST SHORTAGE OF CLOTHES BOMBAY, Aug. 10. Stripped to the skin, five Indian students paraded the corridors and classrooms of Madras State College. It was- their way of revealing the naked truth about the acute cloth scarcity. The only sartorial note, a grotesque touch, was their turbans, which bore neat little slogans denouncing the situation. For three days the students sneaked into the college before dawn, while watchmen were asleep, lay in wait until the first classes began, then undressed and paraded. The third day the Law swooped. The saving grace of the escapade was that the demonstrators previously warned women students not to attend classes for three days, as “strange things were to happen.” Word of what was afoot spread, to the women's hostel and only three girls made their appearance on the first day. They fled in confusion. Leader of the gang, 14-years-old Narasimhan and his four colleagues were bound over to good behaviour by a city magistrate.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22425, 4 September 1947, Page 5
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