Out with the old: RSS cadets dressed in their trademark khaki shorts during an event in Bangalore. — AFP
NEW DELHI: A hardline Indian Hindu movement has announced that it is abandoning its trademark khaki shorts to try to modernise the dress code, 91 years after adopting the austere military-style uniform.
Foot soldiers of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are often seen after dawn across India engaged in physical drills and uttering religious chants – dressed in pleated shorts, white shirts and black hats.
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