People Are Outraged By India Today’s ‘Struggles Of Wearing A Saree To Work’ Video

Saree. An elegant piece of clothing which looks good on any and every woman. While some of us love wearing a saree and flaunting it, there are some who’d prefer not draping them. And, that’s fine. It’s all about comfort and preference of the wearer.

While attempting to show the struggles of wearing a saree, that too at work, India Today’s mobile channel Life Tak made a video.

Their vid, which shows some issues women face with sarees at work, cites some of the instances like skin show, age-related comment, odd questions from co-workers, trouble while walking, et al.

Here’s the video.

Wearing a sari to your office is one hell of an uphill climb. #LifeTak
See more videos at https://t.co/NounxnP7mg pic.twitter.com/781xLi2Pez

— India Today (@IndiaToday) October 28, 2017

“Wearing a sari to your office is one hell of an uphill climb. #LifeTak “

This surely didn’t go down well with the netizens and they instantly schooled them. 

1. One offered to teach them.

I can drape a saree in 10mins,play garba in it for hours. @IndiaToday send your clumsy interns to me and I will teach them how,free of cost!

— Bella (@runjhunmehrotra) October 28, 2017

2. That logic.

https://twitter.com/Sumanth__/status/924218377480019968

3. Twitter cited examples of women achieving things while wearing sarees.

Hi @IndiaToday any views about Milind Soman’s 75+ year old mother running barefoot in a saree ? pic.twitter.com/Tqmvp4zb90

— Laala (@ROFLaaLa) October 28, 2017

4. Rani’s query resonated with others.

https://twitter.com/GandharvaRani/status/924168891638562818

5. They gave example of Rani Laxmibai.

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi.
Fought Freedom Fights in Saree, of which u r degrading in d name of FOE.
Any shame.#Sareebound pic.twitter.com/srmr7quxkc

— ತಿಲಕಾಷ್ಠಮಹಿಷಬಂಧನ (@hippiehuduga) October 28, 2017

6. And, of other women who did a lot of things in sarees.

Saalumarada Thimmakka is an Indian environmentalist from KA, noted 4her wrk in planting 100s of trees.
Flaunting in saree #sareebound pic.twitter.com/XeU4QJAvca

— ತಿಲಕಾಷ್ಠಮಹಿಷಬಂಧನ (@hippiehuduga) October 28, 2017

7. Some users even reported the content.

Reported @IndiaToday for this despicably racist and discriminatory content. Pl do the needful! pic.twitter.com/WJryEuRrQl

— వాక్కేళి (@ivak99) October 28, 2017

8. The conceptualisation was called out too.

https://twitter.com/seeker_cae/status/924228092524093440

Life Tak faced a lot of flak and people started #Sareebound and other hashtags.

It struck the wrong chord with people. They tried to show something else and the end result turned out to be quite opposite of what they intended, we guess.

What are you thoughts on this? Let us know in the comment section, below.