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PostSubject: Indian entrepenuership: protests bring Gandhi cap back into vogue   Indian entrepenuership: protests bring Gandhi cap back into vogue Icon_minitimeSat Aug 20, 2011 11:48 pm

India's street hawkers are famously quick to spot a gap in the market and as a wave of anti-corruption rallies sweep the country, white 'Gandhi' caps have suddenly become the hot item for sale.

Indian entrepenuership: protests bring Gandhi cap back into vogue ST_21137850

Made out of cheap fibre, the caps sell for 10 rupees (26 cents) each and are part of a range of T-shirts, badges and other merchandise that have sprung up around the popular anti-graft movement led by hunger striker Anna Hazare.

The hat, which Mr Hazare wears at all times, was made famous by India's independence hero Mahatma Gandhi and should properly be made out of khadi hand-spun cotton.

For Gandhi, khadi was a symbol of how India should base its economy on village-based craft instead of industrially-produced cotton often exported from mills in Britain, India's colonial ruler until 1947.

http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_704431.html
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