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 photo: david lindley as is the way of the world when the working day is over, the fish caught, offloaded and sold, the nets checked and finally stowed away, the fishermen's mind turns to a little r&r. card games sprang up on the ground that, ten minutes earlier, had been covered in spratts and fish entrails and the fun began. the guy in the blue shirt caught my eye (literally, he motioned that i should join them but i decided that on balance i'd rather keep the contents of my wallet), his expression said to me that he was only too willing to help re-distribute the income of the friendly and relieved-to-be-back-in-one-piece men around him; something about him said that he wasn't one of their band of brothers. if you look at the chaps standing up behind the circle of gamblers, you will note the item that all well-dressed keralan men wear, namely: the lunghi. something akin to a sarong (and sometimes worn long) it is commonly folded up and tucked in to form a baggy shorts/skirt kind of thing; we were told that loose and billowing = comfort around the nether-regions! lunghis come in many colours, often very bright, and are always worn with a shirt, T-shirts again being considered to constricting. a plain white version is also worn fairly widely but this is known as a dhotti. | |
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